Need helping reading something
I found this photo in my family’s stuff and I need help reading what’s on the back. Part of it is really faded, but I had someone make it more readable. The first part, may say Kaspar? Which is my family’s last name.
This is a picture of somone. I think it may have been taken in Hungary, since I have another photo with , that was found
with this one. I know the other photo was taken 1895 in hungray. Thanks!
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I might be able to figure this out if you could send me a higher resolution of the back of the photo. Uploads are usually downsampled quite a bit.
I was able to get to:
D (smudge) ás der Mánó
I couldn't find any kind of an impression between the "s" and the "d".
The "der" could also be "iler" but the "i" portion is curved and I couldn't find the tittle - so that's why I went with d. I was on board with trying to make the first letter a K, but it did not read that way in photoshop.
The google machine tells me that that Mánó can be a diminutive form of Manuel.
"der Mánó" could also be translated as "the elf" elf/sprite/mischievous creature.
Domokos der Mánó, Dénás der Mánó?
SO. Have you found the name Manuel in your research? or perhaps other Spanish, Portuguese names. Or Hebrew for that matter (Immanuel).
Do you have any indication of other family photos having playful nicknames on them?
Again, the internet tells me this was a thing in that era.0 -
- Oh, the studio was in Ujpest, with a Hungarian photographer, and a German Studio name.
Using German was a prestige move at the time, so this was a fancy people photographer.
0 - Oh, the studio was in Ujpest, with a Hungarian photographer, and a German Studio name.
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"Manó" as a male first name is Hebrew origin as the nickname of Immanuel. It was a fairly common first name in the urban Jewish community around that time. I think the last part of the family name is indeed "…der" as Julie noted, but my guess would be that it is part of a longer family name.
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