The Rike-Kumler Co., Dayton, Ohio

Description on card: The Rike-Kumler Co., Dayton, Ohio Part of Meiler Series (No. 20). Published by C.T. American Art by Curt Teich Co., Chicago, Illinois. Curt Teich emigrated to Chicago in 1895. He had worked as a lithographer in Lobenstein, Germany. He founded the Curt Teich Company in 1898, concentrating on newspaper and magazine printing. He was an early publisher of postcards, but he didn't begin printing them himself until 1908. According to MetroPostcard.com, "As his competition dwindled, his sales expanded and his American factories would eventually turn out more postcards than any other in the United States." The company was best known for their wide range of advertising and postcards of North America. By the 1920s, it was producing so many postcards with borders that they became recognized as a type dubbed "White Border Cards," creating an "era." Curt Teich started using offset presses in 1907, but it took a number of years before he had offset presses made to his satisfaction, and many more years for him to perfect the method. His innovations in this printing technique directly led to the production of what we now call "linens" by the early 1930s. The company aided the

Date

1925

Photographer / author

Sent from the Past

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

900 × 582 pixels

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