Waterfront, Albany New York - Vintage Hand colored Albertype Postcard - Hudson River
$25.00
Vintage Hand Colored Albertype PostCard
Waterfront, Albany New York
Approximately 6x8 inches
In 1890, Adolph and Herman L. Wittemann founded the Albertype Company, a postcard and viewbook publishing company in Brooklyn, New York City.[6] This company began to use what were then "new technologies" such as the albertype to reproduce photo-mechanical images. At that time they were able to collect negatives from the cities and towns of the United States and came to create more than 25,000 prints from 1890 to 1952.
In 1952 when they were purchased by Art Vue Post Card Co.
Photographs were sent to Germany where they were reproduced as collotypes and printed, but as printing technology improved they eventually set up their own print shops in the United States. They would send photographers as agents to make the photographs, and they accepted photographs taken by individuals as well.
The Albertype process was invented by Austrian photographer Joseph Albert, used a collotype coating on glass plates permitting high speed mass production of photographs for the first time.
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