Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Postcard: Mayerling Incident

Borowitz True Crime Digital Collection

Postcard: Mayerling Incident

Title Postcard: Mayerling Incident
Time Period 20th century
Description On January 30, 1889, Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria and his pregnant seventeen-year-old mistress were found shot to death at the Mayerling hunting lodge in the Vienna Woods, their deaths the result of an apparent murder/suicide. Photographic postcard showing Mary Vetsera, graves of Vetsera and Crown Prince Rudolph, and the Mayerling lodge along with other sites of relevance to the case. This postcard is undated.
General Subject Area Crime
Extent 1 postcard
Institution Kent State University
Repository Special Collections and Archives
Finding aid title Finding Aid for the Crime-Related Postcards collection
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Format of Original postcard
Subject Murder, General
Suicide
Provenance Crime-Related Postcards collection
Genre/Format postcards
Geographical Location Austria