Beach Swanage England – Historic Reproduction
![Beach Swanage England, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/08/080f3f92cb49-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
Step back in time with Beach Swanage England, a historic print 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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Beach Swanage England
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Swanage, a seaside town on the Dorset coast, was a small village of stonecutters and fishermen until the railway reached it in 1885 and turned its sandy bay into a holiday resort. This photochrom print shows the beach in the years when Victorian visitors were arriving in growing numbers. Photochrom was a color process that built up an image from several stone plates, giving scenes soft, painterly tones. The Detroit Publishing Company, which held the American rights to the process, sold these English views to American buyers and listed this one in its 1905 catalog.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 10794. Views of England |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,628 × 2,727 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 256_Beach_Swanage_England_1890.tif-08877u |
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