Albertype Co.
Variant namesHistory notes:
The Albertype Co., headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y., produced postcards and other printed materials from 1890 until 1952.
The Albertype Company was founded by brothers Adolph and Herman L. Wittemann. In 1890, the publishing company, originally established as the Wittemann Brothers circa 1879, changed its name to the Albertype Company, denoting the company's use of the collotype (or albertype) photographic process. The company operated from 1890 to 1952 and produced over 25,000 prints.
The company utilized a specific photomechanical processes process that had been invented by Joseph Albert in Australia in the late 1860s. Albert's process was an improvement on the collotype photographic process. The company had teams of photographers who traveled across the United States taking and buying images depicting people, places, and activities in all parts of the country. The images were published as postcards and marketed to be sold in the locales depicted in the images.
The Albertype Company both produced their own photographs (Adolph was a photographer), as well as reproduced photographic images produced by other companies or individual photographers. Using the prints, the company published postcards and viewbooks (also known as souvenir albums or view albums, containing commercially published groups of photographs depicting a place, activity, or event).
Links to collections
Comparison
This is only a preview comparison of Constellations. It will only exist until this window is closed.
- Added or updated
- Deleted or outdated
Information
Subjects:
- Aerial photographs
- Architecture, Dutch
- Church buildings
- College buildings
- Dwellings
- Historic buildings
- Indians of North America
- Monuments
- Neighborhoods
- School buildings
Occupations:
not available for this record
Places:
- NC, US
- WI, US
- GA, US
- NY, US
- NY, US
- NY, US
- GA, US
- NY, US
- Henderson County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Babylon (N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Martin County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- New Hanover County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Haywood County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Pitt County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Washington County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Robeson County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Warren County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Tyrrell County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Lenoir County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Carteret County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Caldwell County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Mecklenburg County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Valdosta (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Mitchell County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Suffolk County (N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Gaston County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Chowan County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Cleveland County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Stanly County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- DUMBO Historic District (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Hoke County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Flatbush (New York, N.Y.) |x History (as recorded)
- Avery County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Cherokee County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Davidson County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Macon County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- New York (N.Y.) |x Buildings, structures, etc. |v Pictorial works (as recorded)
- Guilford County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Mount Berry (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Moore County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Orange County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Canada (as recorded)
- Vance County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Savannah (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Jackson County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Swain County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Ashe County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Wake County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Warm Springs (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Burke County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Halifax County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Rutherford County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Milledgeville (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Jones County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Alamance County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Northampton County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Macon (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Brunswick County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Transylvania County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Catabwa County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Polk County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Thomasville (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Chatham County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Beaufort County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Craven County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Dare County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Watauga County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Madison County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Wayne County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Richmond County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Durham County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Forsyth County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Randolph County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- McDowell County (N.C.) (as recorded)
- Long Island (N.Y.) |x Social life and customs |v 19th century (as recorded)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |x Buildings, structures, etc. |v Pictorial works (as recorded)
- North Carolina (as recorded)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |x Streets |v Pictorial works (as recorded)
- Wisconsin--Madison (as recorded)
- Long Island (N.Y.) |x Description and travel (as recorded)
- Atlanta (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Long Island (N.Y.) |x Buildings, structures, etc. |v Pictorial works (as recorded)
- Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Fire Island (N.Y. : Island) (as recorded)
- United States (as recorded)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |x Buildings, structures, etc. |v Pictorial works (as recorded)
- Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Sea Island (Ga.) (as recorded)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |x Buildings, structures, etc. |v Pictorial works (as recorded)
- Prospect Park (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Downtown Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Long Island (N.Y.) |v Pictorial works (as recorded)
- Brooklyn Heights (New York, N.Y.) (as recorded)
- Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) |x Buildings, structures, etc. |v Pictorial works (as recorded)
