J. Reichenbach label inside a reported 1927 wedding suit

This object

SeriesCommercial objects and records

Archive reference

RB-PHO-0335

Date

Reported as c. 1927; not independently verified

Medium

Digital photograph of a woven retailer’s label inside a wool jacket

Digital image

1280 × 589 pixels

Evidence status

Externally held surviving garment; label visible in the supplied photograph; purchase story and approximate date supplied as family testimony

Uncertainty

The grandfather’s identity, wedding date and place, exact purchase date, and whether the full garment or other matching pieces survive have not yet been documented. Only this close interior view has been supplied.

Source and provenance

Digital photograph shared with Daniel Reichenbach through a response to the archive’s r/SachsenAnhalt outreach, September 2026. The contributor reported that the jacket formed part of his grandfather’s wedding suit, bought at Kaufhaus Reichenbach around 1927.

Custody history

Reported to remain with the contributor’s family; not held by the Reichenbach Family Archive.

Credit

Private collection; photograph shared by an r/SachsenAnhalt contributor and published with permission

Rights

Published with the contributor’s permission for the Reichenbach Family Archive website. No further reuse rights are granted.

Image treatment

The supplied 589 × 1,280 pixel JPEG was rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise for upright presentation. No crop, retouching, reconstruction or generative alteration.

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