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Canterbury Cathedral, Norman staircase – Antique Print

Canterbury Cathedral, Norman staircase, c[between 1910 and 1920] — historic photograph
Canterbury Cathedral, Norman staircase, c[between 1910 and 1920]. Historic photograph from the Detroit Publishing Company 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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Step back in time with Canterbury Cathedral, Norman staircase, a historic photograph 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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The staircase in this view is one of the best-preserved Norman features at Canterbury Cathedral in Kent, England, a stone stair built in the Romanesque style of the 11th and 12th centuries. Its rounded arches and heavy masonry contrast with the later Gothic work that surrounds it. The cathedral was a major pilgrimage destination after the murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket in 1170, and its older architecture drew visitors long before photography made such views common. This negative was made by the Detroit Publishing Company, a firm that between about 1900 and 1920 sold views of famous European and American sites, many of them for travel publications and tourists.

Created / publishedc[between 1910 and 1920]
Medium1 negative : glass ; 8 x 10 in.
GenreDry plate negatives.Photographic prints Reproductions.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. no. 073175. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.
SubjectsCathedrals. Stairways.England--Kent--Canterbury.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection
Original scan973 × 793 px
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-DET-74070

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