Albertype Co. Collection of North Carolina Photographs, circa 1900-1930s

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Albertype Co. Collection of North Carolina Photographs, circa 1900-1930s

Albertype Co. Collection of North Carolina Photographs, circa 1900-1930s

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The Albertype Co., headquartered in Brooklyn, N.Y., produced postcards and other printed materials from 1890 until 1952. The company utilized a specific photomechanical processes process invented by Joseph Albert in Australia in the late 1860s, which 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. A majority of the images were published as postcards and marketed to be sold in the locales depicted in the images. The images in this collection, circa 1900-1930s, depict buildings, monuments, people, and scenes in a number of cities and towns across North Carolina in over 50 different counties. Included are black-and-white photographic negatives (original and duplicates) and black-and-white photographic prints.

1666 items (3.0 linear feet)

eng,

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. North Carolina Collection.