From the beginning of the 20th century until the 1950s, Jacques Boyer (1869-1960), photographer and "scientific promoter" established at 5bis, rue Saint-Paul in Paris, imported, distributed and carried out an important photographic production in the scientific and technical domain (experiments, innovative processes of fabrication, factories & workshops, machines, portraits of scientists). Along with this, he photographed Paris, its daily life, its trades and small crafts for over forty years. Roger-Viollet acquired his photographic archives--more than 35,000 negatives and 6,000 prints--in 1963.
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Electric cage for the treatment of arteriosclerosis with high frequency oscillatory currents (darsonvalisation). France, 1907.
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Construction of the first liner "France", 1912.
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Two-seater motorcycle at the Champ-de-Mars. Paris, 1922.
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Paris, Car show. Model 203 Peugeot. Convertible top, 2 seats. Paris, October 1951.
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Auscultation at the Broussais hospital. Paris, 1935.
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Loading of baskets at the Halles, in front of the Saint Eustache church. Paris, around 1900.
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Absinthe drinker. Paris, 1911.
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Final checking and regulation of the clocks, during the manufacture, after a "pendule-mire". England, 1946.
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French National library. Reading room of the print department (Henri Labrouste architect, 1862-1866). Paris, 1938.
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Pierre and Marie Curie, French physicists, leaving on bicycle, in 1896.
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Power hammer of the manufacturing workshops of railway equipment. Villeneuve-Saint-Georges (Val-de-Marne), 1908.
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Assembling bodyworks at the Renault car factory. Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine, France), 1931.
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Mender of baskets. Paris, 1908.
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World War I. German prisoners at a sawmill.
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Man with hang gliders. Concours Lépine, French invention competition. Paris, 1935.
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Wastepaper baskets in a street of Paris. 1907.
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Tourists in the pyramids. Gizeh (Egypt) in 1912.
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The stairs of the lighthouse of Creac'h, on the island of Ouessant (Finistère).
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World War I. French army. Soldiers and a projector loaded onto a truck. 1916.
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World War I. The armistice of November 11, 1918, celebrated on the front.
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Exposition of decorative arts. The illuminated Eiffel Tower. Citroën advertisement. Paris, 1925.
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World War I. Soldier with both arms amputated wearing two Canet prostheses. France, 1916.
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Ka-Be-Nah Gway Wence, Indian chief aged of 134 years and wearing a great national costume.
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Baku's oil well (Aserbaidschan, USSR), in March, 1934. BOY-25737
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"Dyna" Panhard car equipped with a sun roof, 1950.
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Sorting in the factory of the domestic garbage of Issy-les-Moulineaux (Hauts-de-Seine). On 1908.
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Station of pneumatic tubes in a distributor office. Paris, radio center, in 1922.
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Terrace of a café during Winter. Paris, circa 1910.
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Child having a shower. Cloth device replacing the tub, 1946.
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Scarecrows in a field.
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Draping corsages at Worth fashion house. Paris, 1907.
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Giant aspirin tubes. Advertisement of a chemist. Westminster (England), 1934.
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Grinding of the powder to dye leathers. Marrakech (Morocco), on 1928. BOY-17798
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Hat delivery. Luton (Bedfordshire, England), 1935.
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Centre of manufacture of the penicillin, Paris. Harvest of the culture medium by emptying the jars in metal tins ( 1946 ).
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Percement of the Panama Canal. Construction of Gatún's upper locks, 1912. BOY-5394
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Floods of Paris in 1910. A footbridge, rue Fabert (VIIth arrondissment).
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Fabrication d'accessoires de cotillons. Peinture de casques militaires pour enfants. France, 1908.
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Street peddler using an X-ray machine to predict the future. Paris, 1909.
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Young Bohemians going to sell wickerworks. 1909.
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Fabrication de pipes. Nivelage des ébauchoirs à la scie circulaire. Saint-Claude (Jura), 1908.
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Chimney sweep from Savoy. France, 1907.
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Fisherman. Etaples ( Pas-de-Calais). 1936.
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Mud baths of Saint - Arnaud the (North), on 1911. BOY-3910
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"L'Auto" cyclo-cross. Competitors crossing the sand quarry of Trivaux in the woods of Clamart (Hauts-de-Seine). 1937.
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English tattoo : Ecce Homo, 1899.
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Concours de balcons fleuris, rue du Temple. Paris, 1906.
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Foire du Trône. Overall view of the roller-coaster. Paris, 1908.
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Marie Curie (1867-1934), French chemist and physicist, in her laboratory.
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Swiss railway. Travellers in a 2nd class compartment. Switzerland, 1935.
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