ADOLFO BIENER'S REAL PHOTOS

Kodak began operating in Guatemala in August 1927 as Biener & Compañía Ltda.

Like his counterpart in Mexico, German-born Hugo Brehme, Adolfo Biener offered photo processing and photographic equipment and supplies from the United States and Germany.  For some 35 years Biener  also published tourist postcards, along with booklets containing  12 postcards that could be detached and mailed individually.  (Click on the image at above right for the names of the known booklets.)

Biener's real photo postcards generally have numbers and titles that were written on the negatives, which then were printed with white borders on Agfa, Gevaert, Azo or Kodak papers, and signed either by backstamps or blind-embossing.