Item no. P2168 (cover)
Type: cover
Country: Latvia
Date of use: 15 December 2009
Cover (with special cancellation) honoring 125th anniversary of birth of VILIM RĪDZENIKAM (1884 – 1962) [other spelling: Vilis Rīdzenieks], Latvian photographer. From 1931 to 1935 he was the head of the Riga Folk High School photo studio. He photographed various events like Kurzeme refugees in Riga, the time of the proclamation of the state, the struggle for independence, the return of Rainis and Aspazija from exile, the fire of St. Peter's Church in Riga during WW II. Worked in the photo laboratory of the Institute of Wood Chemistry of the Latvian Academy of Sciences. His photographic works are kept in the Museum of the History of Riga.