The Albertype Company

Brothers Adolph and Herman Wittemann founded the company Wittemann Brothers Publishing Company (later known as The Albertype Company) in Brooklyn, New York in 1887, where they published and printed postcards and view cards for view books. They used the recent innovation of collotype, also known as albertype, to mechanically reproduce images. The Albertype Company operated from 1890 to 1952 and produced over 25,000 collotypes. The company both produced their own photographs and reproduced photographic images produced by other companies and individual photographers. Adolph Wittemann was a photographer and photographed different cities and regions.

The company operated out of five locations in its first fifteen years. The first recorded location for the company's place of business was at 25 Park Place in Lower Manhattan. In 1888 they moved a half mile away to 58 and 60 Reade Street, although they were only there for a short time since by 1890 they moved a mile north to 67 and 69 Spring Street. Their final Manhattan address beginning in 1895 was 15 Laight Street, located in today's Tribeca neighborhood. Beginning in 1897 the company moved across the East River to Brooklyn, setting up shop at 250 Adams Street, Brooklyn, and we can speculate they moved to Brooklyn to ramp up their production, since after 1897 their output of products increased. A fire destroyed the factory on March 9th, 1927, although the company rebuilt.

An article in the 1952 Brooklyn Daily Eagle describes the Albertype Company as being located on 309 Bridge Street in "an historic old church," and they quote Herman L. Wittemann, then the president, as a third-generation member of the family firm. The firm had to move to Bridge Street because their old property on 250 Adams Street was condemned to make way for the new Civic Center. At the time, they were employing thirty men and women. 

The company was purchased in 1952 by the Art View postcard company, although they did not take over the company's factory in Brooklyn.

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