PAUPER'S FUNERAL
FATHER OF PICTURE POSTCARD
Australian Press Association.
. BERLIN, Ist October. Ludwig Zrenner, father of the picturo.postcard, to-day had a pauper's funeral at Munich. Zreunor died unknown and utterly forgotten in a carret in a slum of the city, to which iv the oarly 'seventies ho brought famo by his iuvontion. Zrenner, thon a young lithographor of Nuremburg, hit on the brilliant idea which has sinco brought joy to countless tourists. Ho brought out the world's first series of picture postcards, Ist May, 1872. The idea caught on with marvellous rapidity spreading all over the world. Zronner prospered and retired at sixty. In tho inflation of tho mark he lost his whole fortune.
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Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 9
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114PAUPER'S FUNERAL Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 82, 3 October 1929, Page 9
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