[Hotel de ville] / E. Baldus. – Antique Print
![[Hotel de ville] / E. Baldus., [between 1851 and 1870] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/5b/5bd1fd6e7570-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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This rare historic photograph captures [Hotel de ville] / E. Baldus. in remarkable detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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[Hotel de ville] / E. Baldus.
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Photographed by Édouard Baldus, this view shows the Hôtel de Ville, the seat of Paris's city government, before fire during the Paris Commune of 1871 destroyed much of the building. Baldus was among the leading architectural photographers of the Second Empire, and he documented many of the city's monuments as Napoleon III and Baron Haussmann reshaped Paris. Gold toning gives this albumen print its warm, durable tones, and the picture appears in the album *Paris et ses environs en photographies*.
| Created / published | [between 1851 and 1870] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen, gold toned. |
| Genre | Albumen prints 1850-1870. |
| Notes | In album: Paris et ses environs en photographies, p. 19. |
| Subjects | Hôtel de ville (Paris, France)--1850-1870. City & town halls--France--Paris--1850-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,269 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-187315 |
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