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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 |
| Access Rights |
This digital object is owned by Kent State University and may be protected by U.S. Copyright law (Title 17, USC). Please include proper citation and credit for use of this item. Use in publications or productions is prohibited without written permission from Kent State University. Please contact the Department of Special Collections and Archives for more information. |
| Duplication Policy |
http://www.library.kent.edu/special-collections-and-archives/duplication-policy |
| DPLA Rights Statement |
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
| Format of Original |
postcard |
| Subject |
Murder, General Suicide |
| Provenance |
Crime-Related Postcards collection |
| Genre/Format |
postcards |
| Geographical Location |
Austria |
