Photographer Daniel Nyblin & Playwright Adolf Paul

A screenshot of what looks like a newspaper for theater and concerts from Helsinki in 1898. It's a photograph of my great grandfather Adolf, taken by Daniel Nyblin. It's from the Finnish National Library Digital Collection. You can see it better here, and enlarge it. I found out about it from Daniel Nyblin's descendent Marten Mickos. Marten writes:

"BTW, here is a great search engine in Finland:

http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/sanomalehti/secure/query.html?language=en

 It has most Finnish newspapers from a long time ago digitized.

If you search for "Adolf Paul" you'll get a lot of hits. At that time, most newspapers were in Swedish so you may need somebody to help you translate the texts.

This page from 1898 is great:

http://digi.lib.helsinki.fi/sanomalehti/secure/showPage.html?conversationId=3&action=entryPage&id=853723&pageFrame_currPage=1

 

It shows a portrait of Adolf Paul (taken by Daniel Nyblin) with the caption (in an approximate translation): "We rush to present to the audience the portrait of the author Adolf Paul, whose play King Christan II has had such phenomenal success - success pyramidale."

 Incidentally, the page also shows an ad by Daniel Nyblin."

Thanks again, Martin. The design of these pages is fantastic.