Adolph Wittemann

Adolph Wittemann (1845-1938) was an American photographer. 

In 1890, he and his brother, Herman L. Wittemann, founded the Albertype Company in Brooklyn, New York. Originally known as Wittemann Brothers, their firm operated from 1890 to 1952. Over the years, the company produced over twenty-five thousand prints, which were distributed across the United States in the form of postcards and viewbooks. Viewbooks, also called "souvenir albums" or "view albums," are books that contain commercially published groups of photographs depicting a place, activity, or event. They used the recent innovation of collotype, also known as albertype, to mechanically reproduce images. Their firm was a major in the viewbook publishing industry at the time. Adolph Wittemann was among the agents who took photographs of different cities and regions, which were then reproduced as collotypes.