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Brenner Railroad. The Pfterschtal-Gossensass glaciers in distance – Vintage Print

Brenner Railroad. The Pfterschtal-Gossensass glaciers in distance, [between 1860 and 1890] — historic photograph
Brenner Railroad. The Pfterschtal-Gossensass glaciers in distance, [between 1860 and 1890]. Historic photograph from the Railroads & Depots collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Brenner Railroad. The Pfterschtal-Gossensass glaciers in distance, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Brenner Railroad. The Pfterschtal-Gossensass glaciers in distance

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Viewed from the valley above Gossensass (today Colle Isarco), this albumen print shows the Pfitscher glaciers rising in the distance beyond the tracks. The Brenner line, completed in 1867, linked Innsbruck with Italy over the pass and turned a slow crossing of the Alps into a train journey. The print is one page of an album whose other entries are named for cities such as Prague, Munich and Dresden, which suggests a traveler recording a rail route across Central Europe. The frame sets the railway against the mountains, so engineering and wilderness appear side by side.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1890]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreLandscape photographs 1860-1890.Albumen prints 1860-1890.
NotesIn album: Prague, Innsbruck, Munich, Nuremberg, Dresden, Berlin, Hombourg, Edinburgh, p. 157. No. R25.
SubjectsVillages--Austria--1860-1890. Mountains--Austria--1860-1890. Glaciers--Austria--1860-1890. Brenner Pass (Austria and Italy)--1860-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,268 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185645

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