Albert Sachs Press Clippings
Telephone Directory 1900
Albert Sachs studio 8 Manningham Lane Tel Bradford 1035
Leeds Times 8th May 1886
When Albert died in May 1886 at the age of 43 “something like a sensation was caused in Bradford“ according to the Leeds Times. They reported on the inquest that had taken place. Albert had visited the Schiller – Verein a German and Swiss club (membership only open to those of German and Swiss origin) with his brother Oscar earlier that evening. Later that day he was found dead in the bedroom of a strangers house in the company of Miss Mary Underwood a domestic servant who worked at Leuchers Restuarant. She was the sister of Albert’s servant Sarah Underwood. The report explains how these circumstances came about. Quite an innocent explanation as it turns out. The coroner reported that Albert Sachs died of an aneurism of the heart.
Leeds Times Sat 18th May 1871
Announce the marriage of Albert Sachs of Bradford to Hannah Wilman of Thornton on monday at Bradford parish Church
Bradford Observer 29th July 1873
At the Town Hall committee it was reported that they received from Mr Albert Sachs a large photograph taken by him of the late boiler explosion in Bradford. “The view we have before us is taken from Keighley Street, looking right over to the ghastly rent made in the back of a house in Albion Street, in which Mrs Kennedy was killed. In the foreground is a heap of debris out of which the children of Mrs Macmanus were dragged. The photograph is splendidly executed, and will serve to convey, to those who have not visited the spot, an idea of the terrible havoc caused by the explosion.”
Leeds Times 23rd Oct 1875
The Thornton Mechanics institute commissioned Albert Sachs in 1875 to produce portraits of one of the institutes founder member Rev James Gregory and of Mr Joshua Craven who sadly died at the age 25. Joshua Craven must have been a remarkable man because at the age of just 25 he was president of the institute and chairman of the school board and was said to be an active promoter of all good work in the district. “The commission was given to Mr Albert Sachs of Bradford and by him carried out with great care. The portraits were enlarged from photographs and painted in oil.”
Leeds Times 4th Feb 1882
The Leeds Times reported that “Albert Sachs well known photographer of North Parade Bradford had published a series of photographic views by the Electric Light at the recent conversazione in Saltaire.”
Leeds Times 29th July 1882
The Bradford technical college put on a fine art and industrial exhibition. "The lower corridore is crowded by decorative tiles shown by Mr G Battye, Leeds, a nice lot; artistic wallpapers free from arsenic; and photographs by E Passingham, Appleton & Co and Albert Sachs, Bottomley and many others". “The science lecture hall had pictures, also photographs by Albert Sachs, Bradford. It was described as a superior Collection.”
The Graphic 2nd Jan 1886
Our portraits of new members of parliament are from photographs as follows:- Messrs A Holden and Joseph Craven by Albert Sachs, Manningham Lane, Bradford.
Manchester Courier 10th Feb 1906
" Yesterday, in the Chancery Division, an injunction was applied for Doff Bros of Manchester against Albert Sachs of Bradford, to prevent the publication and circulation of photographs of certain ladies named Daisy Jerome, Mabel Lait, and Godwynne Earle who were acting in a pantomime in Bradford, on picture post-cards. Defendants gave an undertaking not to publish these photographs on post-cards pending the trial of the action."