Printed: 2024-04-28
Raty, Veuve Jean - Baptiste
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Person (Female)
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- Connected
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Life dates
Virton, 1835 - Virton, 1903
Activity
1898 - 1903 + Virton, Grand'Rue, 26
Marie Florence Vilaine, ° 30.4.1835; + 16.11.1903, widow of Jean - Baptiste Raty (° Neufchâteau, 22.8.1828; + Virton, 8.6.1892). Printer and bookseller. Publisher of picture postcards. A pioneering regional printer-publisher of collotype postcards, the first appearing in 1898. Advertising postcard in 1900, "Buy your picture postcards here". The earliest postcards bear a credit "H. Raty", possibly her daughter Hélène Augustine Raty (° Virton, 8.4.1874; + Virton, 23.11.1962). Subsequently, Veuve Raty's successor acted as publisher only and the printing was undertaken by specialist firms such as Desaix and Nels.
Marie Florence Vilaine, ° 30.4.1835; + 16.11.1903, widow of Jean - Baptiste Raty (° Neufchâteau, 22.8.1828; + Virton, 8.6.1892). Printer and bookseller. Publisher of picture postcards. A pioneering regional printer-publisher of collotype postcards, the first appearing in 1898. Advertising postcard in 1900, "Buy your picture postcards here". The earliest postcards bear a credit "H. Raty", possibly her daughter Hélène Augustine Raty (° Virton, 8.4.1874; + Virton, 23.11.1962). Subsequently, Veuve Raty's successor acted as publisher only and the printing was undertaken by specialist firms such as Desaix and Nels.
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1898 - 1903 + Virton, Grand'Rue, 26
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Bibliography/Webography
RENAULT, Frédéric. "Les toutes premières cartes-vues de Virton et des ruines d'Orval ont été imprimées à Virton par l'imprimeur Raty", Chronique des Musées gaumais, no. 244 (2020), pp. 41-45.
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Record source
DIRECTORY_2017#1761
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Dates of creation/revision
MCC new 5.9.2020