Henry Sonnenberg

photographer: H Sonnenberg
Pittsburgh and Allegheny, PA
example from LOST GALLERY

reverse of cardd at left finished probably between 1890 and 1894

Heinrich (Henry) Sonnenberg
(1851-1943)

1851 Jun 16
Monabaur Germany, Henry (Heinrich) Sonnenberg is born to George Michael Friedrich and Wilhelmina J Halmestein (Heinrich was the younger brother of Jacob Sonnenberg
1872, 1873
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, NO Sonnenberg listed
1874
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, H Sonnenberg as photographer at 117 Federal (shown as J E Sonnenberg)
1875
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, H Sonnenberg as photographer at 121 Federal
1876
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, H Somenberg (as printed) as photographer at 121 Federal
1877 through 1882
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, Henry Sonnenberg as photographer at 121 Federal
1883, 1884, 1885
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, H Sonnenberg as photographer at 123 Federal, A

1896, 1897
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, Henry Sonnenberg as photographer at 223 Fifth and 52 Federal
1898
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, Henry Sonnenberg as photographer at 52 Federal
1899
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, Henry Sonnenberg as photographer at 223 Fifth
1900, 1901
City directory NOT available
1902
Braddock, PA, city directory, Henry Sonnenberg as photographer NOT listed
1902
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, Henry Sonnenberg as photographer at 28 Lacock (not listed in business pages)
1903
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, Henry Sonnenberg NOT listed in residential or business pages
1904
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, Henry Sonnenberg as photographer 1308 Boyle, A
NO Sonnenberg listed in business pages
This is the only time this address appears. It may simply be a misprint.

1905, 1906
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, NO Sonnenberg listed bus or res
1906
Braddock, PA, city directory Henry Sonnenberg as photographer at 80 Pennsylvania
1908, 1909
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory, Henry Sonnenberg NOT listed in residential or business pages
1910 May 02
Pittsburgh, PA, US census, Henry Sonnenberg as photographer
1911 to 1919
Pittsburgh, PA, city directory: Many years or pages missing; NO Henry Sonnenberg found
1919
Jacksonville, FL, city directory, Henry Sonnenberg in appliance sales

1920 Jan 20
Pittsburgh, PA, US census, Henry Sonnenberg as photographer

Note: this is the last document showing Henry Sonnenberg as a photographer. No other documents have been found that places Henry Sonnenberg and family in Pennsylvania except a curious item that says he died in Tuttle Creek, PA. All items found after January 1910, place him, and wife and children, in Jacksonville, Florida, in the appliance business.

Also, he clearly had two residences established in 1919 and 1920, one in Pittsburgh, PA, and one in Jacksonville, FL. After that, all items found place him in Jacksonville and NOT in the photography business.

photographer: H Sonnenberg
Pittsburg, PA
example from auction site

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