Albertype Company (sold)
Albertype Company (1890 – 1952) was a Brooklyn, New York, based printer of postcards and views. It was founded by Adolph (1845 - 1938) and Herman L. Wittemann on the premise they could leverage a technological innovation in collotype process, the Albertype. Named after its Austrian inventor, Josef Albert (1825 - 1886), the technique is similar to collotype, but substitutes gel plates for lithographic stones, making the process considerably faster and cheaper. Amassing photographic negatives of towns and cities across the United States, the Albertype Company produced over 25,000 collotypes before its closure in 1952.
The only known example of the Murphy and Olmstead View of the Catholic University of America, Washington D.C.
Proposed Plan. The Catholic University of America Washington D.C.
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An impressive and rare 1914 photo gelatin view of the campus of the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C. The view presents proposed improvements by the Washington D.C. architects Murphy and Olmsted. The print consists of a general view of the ... (more details)