Lugano San Salvatore Tessin Switzerland – Vintage Photo Print
![Lugano San Salvatore Tessin Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3f/3f04c3121ba6-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 Lugano San Salvatore Tessin Switzerland, 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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Lugano San Salvatore Tessin Switzerland
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Lugano's Monte San Salvatore, the steep peak that rises straight above the lake, is the subject here, and the view is taken from the water or lakeshore looking up at its slopes and the town spread along the edge of Lake Lugano in the Swiss canton of Ticino. This is a photochrom, a color process developed by the Swiss firm Photoglob Co. of Zurich in the 1880s, which printed hand-colored tones from a set of photographic stone plates. Photochroms of this kind were popular travel souvenirs in the 1890s, and this one is numbered 1233 within the company's Swiss views, a series that helped define how tourists pictured the country.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Print no. 1233. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,322 × 2,488 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2482_Lugano_San_Salvatore_Te_1890.tif-07823u |
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