Maltese Picture Postcards volume 1 office-equipment Maltese names such as Giuseppi

Maltese names such as Giuseppi Miller

il-Benestant Theuma għadu tal-fehma li bintu Elena ma tiżżewwiġx lil Josè

u żewġt itfal imfarfrin li kienu jadurawha… Iżda minkejja li kellha kollox

While encouraging at all times a human outlook

Maltese Picture Postcards volume 1 office-equipment Maltese names such as GiuseppiThe 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 countrys identity and in 1869, the innovative idea of Dr Emanuel Herrmann, chancellor of the Austrian Ministry of Commerce, to produce a printed postcard,