Background
Weber was born in Garberback, Austria on March 4, 1881.
Weber was born in Garberback, Austria on March 4, 1881.
He had clients throughout Queens, Brooklyn, and suburban Long Island. He moved to New York City in 1899, settling in the Rockaways and working as a freelance newspaper photographer, primarily in Manhattan. Weber was the official legal photographer for the Long Island Railroad.
He photographed many accidents for insurance purposes.
He also worked for Jamaica High School. His photos also appeared in Long Island Daily Press and Queensborough Magazine, and City Journal.
Weber retired in 1959. He sold most of his photographs to Ron Ziel and the Queens Library in 1966, and died the following year.
The Queens Library did a retrospective of his work, including 7,689 photographs, in 2004.