Royal Kane Photographs
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The online collection of Royal Kane Photographs contains images taken by Kane for use in advertisements for local and national corporations. The collection includes images used by Westinghouse, Alcoa, U.S. Steel, and Kaufmann's Department Store.
What's in the entire collection?
The Royal Kane Photographs contain images used in advertisements for local and national corporations. This collection also includes portraits of individuals taken by Kane, images of Kane and his family taken by Kane and his children, materials related to an exhibition after his death, and Kane's personal papers. This collection contains photographic prints, slides, and negatives.
About Royal Kane
Royal "Roy" Marvin Kane was born on May 11, 1923, in Brooklyn, New York to Wilhelmina Lowndes and David Kane. Kane attended the Pratt Institute and Rochester Institute of Technology. Following graduation, Kane began his photographic career working at his father's Manhattan photographic studio. While father specialized in portraiture and antique photograph restoration, Kane handled product shots for corporate clients. When family friend William Richards, who owned an industrial photography business in Cleveland, visited the studio, he recognized the talent of the younger Kane and offered him a job. After a short stint in Cleveland, Kane was sent to Pittsburgh in 1957 to open a branch of Richards' business. Within a year of his arrival, Kane had transformed a loft on 3rd Avenue in Downtown Pittsburgh into a modern photography studio. Kane's images appeared in print ads, catalogs, and product packaging for regional companies including Westinghouse, Alcoa, U.S. Steel, and Kaufmann's Department Store.
