Maltese Picture Postcards volume 1

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The visual imprint of our Maltese Nation can be seen from photographic archives, lithographic prints, and postcards which, all together, provide a repository of Maltese identity. The development of photography in the mid nineteenth century was a determining factor for the development of imaging of a country’s identity and in 1869, the innovative idea of Dr Emanuel Herrmann, chancellor of the Austrian Ministry of Commerce, to produce a printed postcard, was soon endorsed by many countries like Austria, Germany and Britain. The idea of writing messages on cards which could be read by anyone created opposition in certain postal authorities and the postal administration in Malta took until 1898 to accept the concept and approve the use of picture postcards produced by private publishers through the postal system. The first image of Malta to be produced in a postcard format was a hand-coloured woodcut print that was posted from Leuven, Belgium in 1872. No further evidence of any Malta postcard has been found before 1898 when an Algerian picture postcard was posted from Malta to Germany on 15 August 1898. The first Malta picture postcard is recorded with a handwritten date of 10 August 1

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