The Harbor (Free Port) Bremen Germany – Antique Photo Print
![The Harbor (Free Port) Bremen Germany, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/3f/3f296d904fb3-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 The Harbor (Free Port) Bremen Germany in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The Harbor (Free Port) Bremen Germany
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Bremen's Free Port, the harbor district on the Weser River, let merchants store and handle goods without paying the usual customs duties, a privilege that helped the city become one of Germany's great trading centers. This print shows that waterfront as it looked in the 1890s, when the port was busy with shipping and commerce. It was made by the photochrom process, a early method of producing color prints from photographs, which the Detroit Publishing Company sold in America as souvenir views of Germany. The soft, painted-looking colors reflect the process as much as the scene itself.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905.. Print no. 6682. Views of Germany |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,624 × 2,727 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1756_The_Harbor_Free_Port_Br_1890.tif-00380u |
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