INVENTOR OF PICTURE POSTCARD
The death is reported at Passau, in his eightieth year, of Herr Alfons Adolph, "the inventor of the picture postcard," says the Berlin correspondent of the London "Times." Adolph, who was born at Huchenburg in the Khineland, studied phototype at Vienna and in Saxony, and produced his first practicable picture postcards by means of a now process at Lobau in 1879. Soon afterwards he founded at Zittau a collotype mechanical process from. which his invention gradually spread throughout the world. Specimens of his earliest picture postcards are preserved at the Beichspost Museum in Berlin. Adolph derived no great financial benefit from his invention. He was dependent most of his life on a small Government post which he held.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 16
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122INVENTOR OF PICTURE POSTCARD Evening Post, Volume CXVIII, Issue 20, 24 July 1934, Page 16
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