This unusual photogravure shows the original background of a road through a forest made into a roundel image, with the roadway stripped out from the larger negative in the foreground, creating a visual framing device leading the viewer through the composition.

Edwin C. McDonald: 1866-1921

E.C. McDonald was a well known commercial photographer from South Bend, Indiana. In 1914, he was listed as a professional photographer in an advertisement reprinted in the November 21 issue of Abel’s Photographic Weekly: 

Why not have real, genuine, artistic work done by South Bend Photographers who have the equipment, the experience and the desire to please their patrons.

There are many advantages in patronizing a home studio for enlargements, chief of which is the satisfaction of knowing that if by chance the work is not satisfactory the man who did it is STILL HERE, not gone to some other town and is READY AND WILLING TO MAKE THE JOB SUIT YOU. Make your next enlargement a

“Done at Home Job”

The following photographers solicit your business in photography and portrait work.

SIT NOW FOR CHRISTMAS PICTURES

Sale of coupons or offering of premiums is unprofessional and strictly against our policies

W. N. PEOPLES

W. H. BAGBY

E. C. McDONALD

E. E. MANGOLD

Professional Photographers, South Bend, Ind. (excerpt, p. 494)