March 20, 2005

The Janus Museum is a small virtual institution dedicated to the life and times of Allan Janus, photographer and collector.

Allan Janus (1881-?) was born in Washington DC and worked for many years as an itinerant tintypist throughout Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Michigan. Janus also pursued other unsuccessful careers in book and fine art selling, as a government clerk, and as a free-lance dirigible pilot. Further biographical information has not yet been found, and all traces of him vanish after c.1915. The museum welcomes serious scholars.

posted by islander 19 years ago
  • Worst- photoshopping-ever
  • Well, it is a raggle-taggle collection, some of it good and some of it not so. But Argh, which do do you think are photoshopped?
  • Liked The Wild Potomac Poodle best, not because of the photo itself so much as the title. The museum seems rather too tongue-in-cheek to attract many serious scholars, as in A Lady of of Fashion. I suggest the curators send out more whiny, complaining letters in keeping with the those written by the museum's founder. Nice one, islander!
  • Every one of em. Satire site.
  • Farce. Or half-farce.
  • I think I once met his grandson Hugh who was, you'll not be surprised to hear, a big asshole. Ho, ho, ho
  • Was that Hugh G., from the Rection side of the family?
  • I blew a huge grant.