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Poidras, Critical and Documentary Dictionary, vol. 2 (1930) — the label-facsimile plates 851–859, facing p. 256

Poidras, Henri, Critical and Documentary Dictionary of Violin Makers Old and Modern (Rouen: Imprimerie de la Vicomté, 1930), 2:256. Google Books, pHQHAQAAMAAJ, pg PA256-IA31; also HathiTrust mdp.39015012793934, image seq. 413. https://books.google.com/books?id=pHQHAQAAMAAJ.

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Who this document names

Names 14 people; 4 have a record here.

  1. A. H. Seymour facsimile 856
  2. Geo. S. Conway facsimile 858
  3. Homer B. Turrell facsimile 855
  4. J. E. Harris facsimile 853; line 15 of what the software read from the scan
  5. Knute Reindahl facsimile 852
  6. Made, W line 57 of what the software read from the scan
  7. Reindahl, Knute
  8. Seymour, A. H.
  9. Squier, Victor Carroll
  10. Turrell, Homer B.
  11. V. L. Schwenk facsimile 857
  12. Victor Carroll Squier facsimile 851
  13. W. King facsimile 859
  14. Wilhelm Otto facsimile 854
Record details

The leaf, not the volume: the plate page facing p. 256, a row of label facsimiles numbered 851–859, read from the Google Books page images. The numbers were recovered by two independent readings of the page image on 12 August 2026: 851 Victor Carroll Squier (No. 695, Anno 1928); 852 Knute Reindahl (#570, October 1928); 853 J. E. Harris, Gateshead, England (blank form); 854 Wilhelm Otto, Düsseldorf, 1928 (manuscript); 855 Homer B. Turrell (Medora, Indiana, No 23, 1928); 856 A. H. Seymour (Lincoln, Neb., No. 58, Made Anno 1926); 857 V. L. Schwenk (Chicago — the label the seeding pass misread as “V. L. Schmidt”); 858 Geo. S. Conway (Newark, O., 1928); 859 W. King (Hamilton, Canada, 1928). The volume’s own text entries cross-reference facsimiles 855 (2:244), 856 (2:238) and 857 (2:236–37) by number, confirming the assignments. Page images and enlarged crops are held in this project's archive The text entry at 2:231 is Reindahl’s and attests nothing about the other labels; a label claim should cite the plate page rather than that entry. The text volume is set two columns to a page with documented column bleed — check any reading from the text pages against the adjacent column.

Kind
Book
Evidence grade
Secondary
Author
Poidras, Henri
Title
Critical and Documentary Dictionary of Violin Makers Old and Modern
Place
Rouen
Publisher
Imprimerie de la Vicomté
Date
1930
Volume
2
Pages
256
Repository
Google Books
Identifier
pHQHAQAAMAAJ, pg PA256-IA31; also HathiTrust mdp.39015012793934, image seq. 413

What rests on this source

Everyone this source names

This document prints 11 names. A name found this way is the weakest thing this site records: the book names the person, and nothing more is said. It is not a line in a record — the lines that actually rest on this source are listed above, each with its own confidence. 2 of the names below reach a record on this site; lines from this source have been written for 0. The rest are names and nothing else — which is an honest description of the evidence, and an invitation: if you know one of these makers, we want to hear from you.

  1. Victor Carroll Squier facsimile 851 mention only — no record here yet

    “Victor Carroll Squier, Maker, Battle Creek, Mich.” — No. 695, Anno 1928 filled by hand; circular VCS monogram.

  2. Knute Reindahl facsimile 852 mention only — no record here yet

    Ornate cartouche, “Knute Reindahl, Madison, Wis.” — #570, October 1928 by hand.

  3. J. E. Harris facsimile 853 mention only — no record here yet

    “Made by J. E. Harris, Violin Maker, Nile Street, Gateshead” — blank form, English maker.

  4. Wilhelm Otto facsimile 854 mention only — no record here yet

    “Wilhelm Otto fec. Düsseldorf 1928,” manuscript.

  5. Homer B. Turrell facsimile 855 mention only — no record here yet

    Blackletter shop label, “Me-do-ra Hand Made Violins… Medora, Indiana” — No 23, 1928.

  6. A. H. Seymour facsimile 856 mention only — no record here yet

    “No. 58 — Made Anno 1926 — A. H. Seymour, Lincoln, Neb.,” with monogram device; serial and year-final-digit by hand.

  7. V. L. Schwenk facsimile 857 draft record
  8. Geo. S. Conway facsimile 858 draft record
  9. W. King facsimile 859 mention only — no record here yet

    “Made by W. King — Violin Maker, Hamilton, Canada,” 1928.

  10. Made, W line 57 of what the software read from the scan mention only — no record here yet

    W. KING – Violin Maker — trade term as printed: "Violin Maker" — surname inherited from the headword at line 56: "MADE BY" — from OCR (read_as: ocr)

  11. Harris, J. E. line 15 of what the software read from the scan mention only — no record here yet

    VIOLIN MAKER. — trade term as printed: "VIOLIN MAKER" — name as printed read by a reviewer from the page: "Harris, J. E." — the machine read this line as "J. E. HARRIS," — surname not established — the line carries a trade term but no surname resolves to it — from OCR (read_as: ocr)