{{Short description|American photographic studio (active 1867–1947)}} thumb|Three of the four Pach brothers (left to right): Gustavus W. Pach, Oscar Pach, and Gotthelf Pach The '''Pach Brothers''' was a family-run photography studio by German-born brothers Gustavus and Gotthelf Pach. The brothers photographed portraits of many notable figures including former United States president Benjamin Harrison and American banker George Foster Peabody. The brother Gotthelf is the father of famed German-American painter Walter Pach.
==History== It was founded by the German-born brothers Gustavus Pach (1848–1904), Gotthelf Pach (1852–1925) and Morris Pach (1837–1914). Patrons included famous and ordinary Americans involved in business, politics, government, medicine, law, education, and the arts, as well as thousands of students, families and children who sat for Pach cameras from 1866 onward.
A fire in 1895 destroyed their New York studio and processing rooms as well as their entire negative archive.<ref>{{cite news |title=Blaze Began in Photos. Pach Brothers' Studio in Broadway Destroyed by Fire |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A06E0D7123DE433A25754C1A9649C94649ED7CF |newspaper=New York Times |date=17 February 1895 |access-date=2014-08-20 }}</ref>
The Pach Brothers firm continued photographing for another hundred years until their dissolution in 1994.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pach Brothers (The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection) |url=https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/group/104MWN |access-date=2022-09-15 |website=The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection |language=en}}</ref> {{-}}
==Gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="300px"> File:Pach Brothers - Benjamin Harrison.jpg|1896 photo of by-then-former United States President Benjamin Harrison, including their copyright notice File:TheodoreRooseveltFamily.jpg|1903 Pach Brothers colorized photo of President Theodore Roosevelt and his family with copyright notice on the left side File:Pach Brothers - George Foster Peabody.jpg|1907 Pach Brothers photo of George Foster Peabody File:Cabinet card of William Howard Taft by Pach Brothers.jpg|1908 cabinet card of William Howard Taft File:President Woodrow Wilson portrait December 2 1912.jpg|1912 portrait of President Woodrow Wilson </gallery>
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==External links== {{commons category|position=left|Pach Brothers|<br>Pach Brothers}} * [https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/nyhs/pr084_pach_brothers_portraits/ Guide to the Pach Brothers Portrait Photograph Collection: 1867–1947, undated (bulk 1880s–1940s)] * [https://findingaids.library.nyu.edu/nyhs/pr084_pach_brothers_portraits/ The Pach Brothers Portrait Photograph Collection at the New York Historical Society]
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Category:Photographic studios of the United States Category:1867 establishments in New York (state) Category:American companies established in 1867 Category:Mass media companies established in the 1860s
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