Pola the Navy Yard Istria Austro-Hungary – Historic Photograph Print
![Pola the Navy Yard Istria Austro-Hungary, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/62/62d9c734706e-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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A window into the past: Pola the Navy Yard Istria Austro-Hungary, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Pola the Navy Yard Istria Austro-Hungary
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Pola, now Pula in Croatia, was the Austro-Hungarian Navy's principal base on the Adriatic, and this view turns to its naval yard at the edge of the harbor. The Habsburg monarchy had built up the port as a fortified arsenal in the decades after mid-century, when it needed a secure home for its fleet on the Istrian coast. The picture was made with the photochrom process, which used a series of printing stones to add color to a photographic image, and Detroit Publishing Co. sold it in the United States as part of its catalog of views from the empire. Its soft, layered colors give a useful sense of how the era's travel imagery was meant to look.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 16777. Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,658 × 2,740 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3260_Pola_the_Navy_Yard_Istr_1890.tif-09551u |
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