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NameLast: Masure
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Parents: Solomon and Cecelia (Placzek) Masure
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OriginalNotes: Early Photographers of Porter County, on blog "Porter County's Past: An Amateur Historian's Perspective, by Steve Shook, dated April 30, 2017, updated April 4, 2019 (viewed April 30, 2019 by Joan Hostetler http://www.porterhistory.org/2017/04/early-photographers-of-porter-county.html?fbclid=IwAR35AFnb2sr3nusPUOrnOLkz1wm6IAbLSTp12_fi_XJSYFKfqQach_2oTQQ)
Masure, Morris L. 
Morris L. Masure owned and operated the M-L Photo Company in Chicago. M-L Photo Company was a very prolific publisher of real photo postcards taken of locations throughout Illinois and Indiana. Nearly all of the company's postcards were imprinted with either M.L. PHOTO or M-L Photo Co. Bel-Park Photo was later housed in the M.-L. Photo Company building located at 2837 Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. It is possible that M.L. in the company represents Masure's initials. However, some researchers believe that it may represent the initial of a partner in the company whose surname was either Leonhard or Leonard.  Masure was operating a photography studio in Chicago in partnership with Frank G. Spengler as early as 1895, and then had his own studio in the city beginning in 1897. The 1910 federal census for Ward 25 in Chicago enumerates Morris L. Masure as 45 years old and single; his occupation is listed as a "Photographer" in the "Photo Station" industry.
Morris L. Masure was born on October 6, 1869, in Germany, the son of Solomon and Cecelia (Placzek) Masure. He married Cyrene Archambault on September 6, 1915, in Kane County, Illinois. Masure died at Aurora, Kane County, Illinois, on March 13, 1943, and was interred at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Cook County, Illinois, on March 15.

Martinsville by Joanne Raetz Stuttgen and Curtis Tomak, Arcadia Publishing, 2008, p. 9
Another example [of postcard photographers] is M. L. Photo, who signed as such on the front of 1907-1915 real-photo postcards and often had some version of "M. L. Photo Company, Chicago" on the back. M. L. Photo produced good-quality cards of many places in Indiana, including some towns in Morgan County."

RPPC - Real Photo Postcards page on Facebook, comment by Steven Shook in 2018:
"Morris L. Masure owned and operated the M-L Photo Company in Chicago. M-L Photo Company was a very prolific publisher of real photo postcards taken of locations throughout Illinois and Indiana. Nearly all of the company's postcards were imprinted with either M.L. PHOTO or M-L Photo Co. Bel-Park Photo was later housed in the M.-L. Photo Company building located at 2837 Milwaukee Avenue in Chicago. It is possible that M.L. in the company represents Masure's initials. However, some researchers believe that it may represent the initial of a partner in the company whose surname was either Leonhard or Leonard."
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OriginalSource: Also signed on front of real photo postcards as M-L Photo

Martinsville by Joanne Raetz Stuttgen and Curtis Tomak, Arcadia Publishing, 2008, p. 9
Another example [of postcard photographers] is M. L. Photo, who signed as such on the front of 1907-1915 real-photo postcards and often had some version of "M. L. Photo Company, Chicago" on the back. M. L. Photo produced good-quality cards of many places in Indiana, including some towns in Morgan County."
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