The beach Falmouth Cornwall England – Vintage Wall Art
![The beach Falmouth Cornwall England, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/2f/2f6ef01853e2-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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Step back in time with The beach Falmouth Cornwall England, a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The beach Falmouth Cornwall England
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Falmouth sits on the south coast of Cornwall, where a sheltered harbor on the Carrick Roads drew ships for centuries and, by the late 1800s, holidaymakers as well. This view of its beach dates from roughly the 1890s, a period when rail links made seaside towns like Falmouth easier to reach for visitors from across England. The picture is a photochrom, a color process in which a black-and-white photograph was transferred to stone and inked in several passes, and the Detroit Publishing Company distributed such views in the United States. Its catalog listing from 1905 shows how these English scenes were marketed to American buyers as glimpses 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. 10760. Views of England |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,690 × 2,748 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 251_The_beach_Falmouth_Corn_1890.tif-08218u |
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