Seelisberg and Hotel Sonnenberg Lake Lucerne Switzerland – Antique Print
![Seelisberg and Hotel Sonnenberg Lake Lucerne Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/4a/4ab2d625a18e-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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Few images capture their era like this historic print of Seelisberg and Hotel Sonnenberg Lake Lucerne Switzerland. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Seelisberg and Hotel Sonnenberg Lake Lucerne Switzerland
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Perched on a terrace above the eastern shore of Lake Lucerne, Seelisberg drew travelers for its wide lake views, and the Hotel Sonnenberg was one of the places that housed them. This print is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland in the 1880s, and it appears in the Detroit Publishing Company's 1905 catalog of Swiss views. The company held American rights to the process and sold such images to buyers who wanted souvenirs of European travel. Hotels like this one show how the lake country was built up for tourists around 1900.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 9243. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,692 × 2,776 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3858_Seelisberg_and_Hotel_So_1890.tif-07269u |
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