Portrait from photographer Maria Tesch’s studio in Lköpping. 1915. Orders: Adolf Andersson.

Maria Tesch (1850-1936) was an active photographer in Lköpping with his own studio between 1873-1917. During her first years in the city, she pushed the studio she started in 1871 in the hometown of Eksjö. The collection in Östergötland Museum covers just over 11,400 negatives and with a few deviations between 1906 and 1916. The museum received the collection in the gift of the relative Erik Tesch in 1939. An original ligger is missing but inventory forms were drawn up with details from cover sheets to the glass sheets. The data has later been entered in an Excel register that forms the basis for current information. Designated personal names are with great certainty the orderer of the portraiture. However, it is not certain that this person is always the person depicted. There are often group portraits. The digitalisation of the glass negatives is a different kind of transmission than the copies produced by Maria Tesch himself in the form of business cards.