Steamboat pier Trefriew (i.e. Trefriw) Wales – Antique Print
![Steamboat pier Trefriew (i.e. Trefriw) Wales, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/01/01efddb2e967-L.webp)
(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.)
Description
This rare historic print captures Steamboat pier Trefriew (i.e. Trefriw) Wales in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Steamboat pier Trefriew (i.e. Trefriw) Wales
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Trefriw sits on the tidal River Conwy in North Wales, and this view centers on its steamboat pier, a detail that sets it apart from the village scenes usually shown in these views. The image is a photochrom, a color process developed by the Photoglob company in Zürich and widely sold in the United States by the Detroit Publishing Company, which issued this copy in its 1905 catalog. Dated to roughly the 1890s, it captures a period when steamers still carried passengers and goods along Welsh waterways, and when photochroms were prized as colorful records of distant places.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 10583. Views of landscape and architecture in Wales |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,692 × 2,738 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4111_Steamboat_pier_Trefriew_1890.tif-07499u |
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