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The railway station Lillie France – Vintage Print

The railway station Lillie France, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print
The railway station Lillie France, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].. Historic print from the Railroads & Depots 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 The railway station Lillie France, a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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The title places this view at the railway station in Lille, a major rail junction in northern France near the Belgian border. The print is a photochrom, a color process that used multiple stone lithographic plates to tint a black-and-white photograph, with the color often applied by hand. Detroit Publishing Co. issued it in its 1905 catalog of French architecture and sites, which gives a sense of how railway buildings were presented to American buyers as examples of modern French travel. The record dates the original photograph to roughly the 1890s, a period when stations were central to how towns and cities projected their growth.

Created / published[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom color.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 8102. Views of architecture monuments and other sites in France
SourceLibrary of Congress, Photochrom Prints
Original scan3,440 × 2,544 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi
Reference3449_The_railway_station_Lil_1890.tif-05071u

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