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[Hotel Pension la Tete Noire, somewhere in Europe, with horses and carriages in foreground] – Vintage Print

[Hotel Pension la Tete Noire, somewhere in Europe, with horses and carriages in foreground], [ca. 1900, printed 1964] — historic photograph
[Hotel Pension la Tete Noire, somewhere in Europe, with horses and carriages in foreground], [ca. 1900, printed 1964]. Historic photograph from the Taverns & Saloons collection.

(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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Horses and carriages fill the foreground of this view of the Hotel Pension la Tete Noire, a small European lodging whose exact location the record does not name. The name, which is French for "black head," points to a francophone setting and to the modest pensions that served travelers before automobiles became common on European roads. Frances Benjamin Johnston, the American photographer whose collection holds the picture, documented many everyday places, though this print was made in 1964, decades after the scene was taken around 1900. It offers a useful glimpse of street and travel life in that period.

Created / published[ca. 1900, printed 1964]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenrePhotographic prints 1890-1910.
NotesFrances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
SubjectsCarriages & coaches--European--1890-1910. Hotels--Europe--1890-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,271 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-195490

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