Photography in Postal History

Monday, 29 November 2021

Postcard to Alfred Fries, Photographer from Perg

Postcard addressed to Austrian photographer Alfred Fries, featuring clear business formatting and postal markings from the German photographic industry.

Damga tarihi : 25/11/1938 Almanya

Alfred Fries (1902-1981) fotoğraf stüdyosuna gönderilmiş antetli posta kartı.Alfred Fries Avusturyalı bir fotoğrafçı ve girişimcidir.Ayrıca daily post ve heimatland yayınları için fotomuhabiri olarak da çalışmıştır.Bütün eğitim hayatından sonra 1920 li yılların başından itibaren Perg ve Mauthausen'de Machland fotoğraf stüdyosunu yönetmiştir.

Reverse of the postcard with mailing address to Alfred Fries in Perg—showing typical stamp box, handwritten correspondence, and layout used in interwar photographic communication.

Date of use : 25/11/1938 Germany

Business stationery,postacard.The card was adressed Alfred Fries fotograf.Alfred Fries (1902-1981) was an Austrian photographer and entrepreneur in Perg. After completing his training,Fries ran the Machland photo studio in Perf from the beginning of the 1920s,and later also in Mauthausen, and also worked as a local photojournalist for the daily post and the illustrated weekly Heimatland, among others.

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