This is a cropped and cleaned up version of the back of the Carte de Visite photo we have. (See post under Bearded Man, Aarhus, Denmark.) This is only one version of the studio logo, as there is another found online that includes a drawing of the building that he was located in. The address, as you can see from the image, was Store Torv 9, in Aarhus. The phrase at the bottom on the back of the CDV, “Pladen opbevares for Efterbestillinger”  means the studio kept the original plate or negative for any possible future reorders.

Not much was found for this photographer. However, a key bit of information was located online in a (thankfully for researchers) lengthy list of Danish photographers that did “calling card” or Carte de Visite type work for years 1860 – 1920. There are four listings there with the address or name and the city:  1. Hadrup (Peder Hansen) Nørregade 30(31)/ Algade 49, overfor Museet. City is Skive/Aalborg; 2. Hadrup, P. (Peder Hansen) Hj. AfVolden og Klostergade/Store Torv 9. City is Aarhus; 3. Hadrup, P. (Peder Hansen) Nørrebrogade 12/H.C. Ørstedsvej 4 (Lige ved G1 Kongevej). City is København; 4. Hadrup, P. H. (Peder Hansen) Ringstedgade. City is Næstved. So the photographer we’re searching for is the third entry which shows the same address we have. (I’m not sure whether these are four different photographers or if any of them could be the same.)

In searching the database at Ancestry.com, we find two entries related to Peder Hansen Hadrup and Aarhus. The first is a marriage record for Peder Hansen Hadrup, age 22, born about 1831, who married Kirsten Andersdr Torup on October 21, 1853. Their place of marriage was Hundslund, Aarhus County, Denmark, Per a Wikipedia entry, this county was abolished on Jan. 1, 2007, having mostly merged into Region Midtjylland, with a small portion having merged into Region Nordjylland. The city of Aarhus is about 39 kilometers north of today’s city of Hundslund. The second entry is a baptismal record for Svend Morits Hadrup, born October 5, 1893 in Aarhus, with parents names given as Peder Hansen Hadrup and Karen Dorthea Sørine Petra Gormsen. So, we don’t know if either record pertains to our photographer or any of his family, but either or both are possible.

Sources:  Danske Fotografer fra 1860 til 1920, som fremstillede visitkortbilleder. udarbejdet af Ole Hesager. (Danish Photographers 1860-1920, which produced business card images. prepared by Ole Hesager)  http://www.objektiv.dk/hesager

Denmark, Marriages, 1635-1916. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. (Ancestry.com)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aarhus_County

Denmark, Select Baptisms, 1618-1923. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. (Ancestry.com)