Bow Certificates and Photographic Reference Files
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Herrmann, Emil, 1888-1968
label: Collection Creator
content: Francais, Jacques, 1923-2004
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content: Jacques Français Rare Violins, Inc. Photographic Archive and Business Records
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1988-1990, undated
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.0872, Series 2
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: SERIES 2:  BOW CERTIFICATES AND PHOTOGRAPHIC REFERENCE FILES, 1825, undated.  This series consists of Français and Herrmann's bow certificate files, photographic prints, and negatives. The series is arranged alphabetically by surname of bow maker.  Copies of certificates were created in the office and used as a reference archive; information on many of them was not as detailed as that on a customer's certificate.  Not all certificates were duplicated for the office archive and seldom, if ever, did they carry a date of creation.  Loose photographs are labeled with the certificate number and filed with that certificate.  If no certificate or certificate number was available to identify the extra material, it is filed separately in chronological order by the year of manufacture --if given.  The year of manufacture is written on the photograph along with the date of the photograph (if any) from the accompanying envelope.  Spelling of makers' names follow Français and Herrmann's original folder labeling with obvious misspellings corrected.  The researcher is encouraged to check for alternative spellings.  Photographs with undateds are filed at the back of folders or in a separate folder.  Herrmann's certificates are often in German.