Leysin general view of village and hotels Nand Canton of Switzerland – Antique Photo Print
![Leysin general view of village and hotels Nand Canton of Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/41/4151e137e2e8-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 historic print of Leysin general view of village and hotels Nand Canton of Switzerland brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Leysin general view of village and hotels Nand Canton of Switzerland
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Leysin sits on a sunny terrace in the Alps above the Rhône valley, and this view shows the village with its hotels spread across the slope. In the decades around 1900, Leysin was becoming known as a high-altitude resort, and its clean air drew visitors seeking health cures. The print is a photochrom, a process developed in Switzerland that turned a black-and-white photograph into a color image using several lithographic stones, each inked by hand. Detroit Publishing Company later sold these views in the United States, which helped spread these pictures of Swiss scenery widely.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 16652. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,691 × 2,770 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2351_Leysin_general_view_of_1890.tif-07916u |
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