Mummy, Franz Stoedtner Archive, Berlin
 Glass plate
 Format 10 x 8.5cm with stand The Arlesian Suitcase
 After studying art history, Dr. Frantz Stoedtner founded the Dr. Franz Stoedtner Institute of Scientific Projection in 1895, with the aim of providing photographic images as image material for lectures and publications.
 Stoedtner was one of the most important pioneers of documentary photography, particularly in the field of art history, but also in other fields.
 Initially used with the magic lantern for entertainment, the photographic plate established itself in the last quarter of the 19th century as a tool particularly suited to the production and dissemination of knowledge, but also aesthetically as a tourist object, a witness to great journeys or important events.