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Item no. P1492 (postcard)
Type: cover
Country: France
Date of use: 21 February 1938
Business stationery (postcard, front of) used by the company Société des Usines Chimiques RHÔNE- POULENC [The League of Rhône-Poulenc Chemical Plants] in Paris (France). The company was founded in 1900 as family pharmaceutical business Poulenc Freres and, in 1928, merged with Société Chimique des Usines du Rhône [Chemical Society of Rhône Factories], forming the above organization.
The earlier base for the company was a workshop and store, that was bought and modernized by Pierre Wittmann (1798-1880) in 1845. In 1852, apart other compounds, he, with his partner Etienne Poulenc, started manufacturing chemicals for wet-plate photographic collodion processes. There were also manufactured some wooden cameras e.g. Stereo and Panorama Camera (1880) for 6,5 x 9 cm. plates, with Prazmowski lens, or Detective Camera (ca.1900) for 9 x 12 cm. plates.
The brothers [“Freres”] who later inherited the company were three Etienne’s nephews – Gaston, Emile and Camille.
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