Graz electrical elevator Styria Austro-Hungary – Antique Photo Print
![Graz electrical elevator Styria Austro-Hungary, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/49/49a6218a8585-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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A window into the past: Graz electrical elevator Styria Austro-Hungary, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Graz electrical elevator Styria Austro-Hungary
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The ornate electric elevator in Graz, the Styrian capital, carried riders up the slope toward the Schlossberg, the wooded hill that rises above the old town. Electric traction was still new in the 1890s, and lifts like this one were a visible sign of how quickly Austro-Hungarian cities were modernizing their transit. This print comes from the photochrom process, in which a black-and-white photograph was transferred to stone and then colored by hand with several layers of ink, giving the scene its soft, saturated tones. Detroit Publishing Company sold these views in America under license from the Swiss firm that developed the process, so the picture reflects both European engineering and the American market for travel images.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 9316. Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,618 × 2,700 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1630_Graz_electrical_elevato_1890.tif-09583u |
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