St. Moritz cows at Johannisberg Grisons Switzerland – Antique Photo Print
![St. Moritz cows at Johannisberg Grisons Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/0c/0cf48eea9964-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.)
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A window into the past: St. Moritz cows at Johannisberg Grisons Switzerland, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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St. Moritz cows at Johannisberg Grisons Switzerland
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A herd of cows grazing at Johannisberg, near St. Moritz in the canton of Grisons, sets this view apart from the lake and mountain scenes that dominate Swiss travel imagery of the period. The print was made by the photochrom process, a commercial color method that used a separate stone for each hue and gave photographs a painted, luminous finish. Detroit Publishing Co. sold such views to American buyers from its catalog, and this one appears under print number 9596 in its 1905 listing of Swiss scenes. Its pastoral subject, from a village better known to tourists as a resort, shows how travel photography also recorded everyday rural life.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 9596. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,664 × 2,747 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 4054_St_Moritz_cows_at_Johan_1890.tif-07155u |
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