Jochpass and Wetterhorn Unterwald Switzerland – Vintage Photo Print
![Jochpass and Wetterhorn Unterwald Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/50/5016c3c7597f-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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Jochpass and Wetterhorn Unterwald Switzerland comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Jochpass and Wetterhorn Unterwald Switzerland
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The Jochpass, a mountain crossing in the Unterwalden country, is shown here with the Wetterhorn, the limestone peak that rises above the Bernese Oberland. The pass was a route for walkers and muleteers traveling between the Engelberg valley and the Hasli region long before tourism reached the area in numbers. This print was made by the photochrom process, a Zurich method that built up color from several stone plates, and it appears in the Detroit Publishing Company's 1905 catalog of Swiss views. The tinted layers give the snow, meadows, and rock a softer, painterly look than a plain black-and-white photograph.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 8338. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 2,724 × 3,664 px · prints to 9 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2055_Jochpass_and_Wetterhorn_1890.tif-07830u |
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