Gudvangen Kilfos Sognefjord Norway – Antique Photo Print
![Gudvangen Kilfos Sognefjord Norway, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/60/60508505e963-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 Gudvangen Kilfos Sognefjord Norway. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Gudvangen Kilfos Sognefjord Norway
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Gudvangen sits at the inner end of the Nærøyfjord, a narrow arm of the Sognefjord, and this view places the village and the steep valley walls around it in a single frame. The print is a photochrom, a process developed in Switzerland in the 1880s that built color from several stone lithographic plates laid over a photographic base. The Detroit Publishing Co. sold these views to American travelers and armchair tourists under its own catalog numbering, and this copy is listed in its 1905 catalog. Its date falls somewhere in the 1890s, when fjord travel in western Norway was growing and steamship tourism was bringing visitors into such remote valleys.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 7061. Landscape and marine views of Norway |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 2,547 × 3,391 px · prints to 8 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1709_Gudvangen_Kilfos_Sognef_1890.tif-06217u |
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