Interior of a house Damascus Holy Land (i.e. Syria) – Historic Photograph Print
![Interior of a house Damascus Holy Land (i.e. Syria), [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/37/3769dfb895ed-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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This rare historic print captures Interior of a house Damascus Holy Land (i.e. Syria) in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Interior of a house Damascus Holy Land (i.e. Syria)
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Few photochrom views of the Middle East show the inside of a private home, which makes this Damascus interior unusual among the Holy Land series. Damascus houses of this period were typically built around a central courtyard, with reception rooms opening onto it, and the rooms were often furnished with low divans, carved woodwork and decorative tilework. The photochrom process, a Swiss method of producing color prints from photographs, was widely used by the Detroit Publishing Company to market travel scenes to American and European buyers in the 1890s and early 1900s. Its hand-applied color layers give the room its warm, painted quality, and the print is worth a close look for the furnishings and decorative details that a photograph in black and white would flatten.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 15087. Views of the Holy Land |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 2,768 × 3,742 px · prints to 9 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1953_Interior_of_a_house_Dam_1890.tif-02674u |
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