Louisa M. Herrmann

Louisa Marion Herrmann (née Eton) was a New Zealand photographer who owned and operated a large photographic studio on Cuba Street, Wellington.

Biography Louisa Marion Eton was born in London on 11 June 1864 to Henry Edgar Eton. In 1880, she arrived in New Zealand aboard the Piako.

Her family established in Masterton, where her father ran a successful chemist business named 'HE Eton'. Louisa's family knowledge on chemistry would explain her familiarity to the subject.

Between 1882 and 1883, Eton began working as an assistant at the Connolly and Herrmann photography studio on Lambton Quay, Wellington and continue to work there for seven years. Louisa Herrmann is referenced in one of the Wairapa Daily Times' advertisements as available to "receive lady visitors."

After his death, she operated the Herrmann photographic studio, and hired Fred Muir, who formerly worked in the Dunedin Studio Burton Brothers. |

When she retired in 1908, the Herrmann photographic studio assets were advertised for sale, including 35,000 negatives. Because of this, the studio's negative strewed and got lost.

She died on 3 June 1955 in Wellington, New Zealand.