Lugano the quay Tessin Switzerland – Historic Photograph Print
![Lugano the quay Tessin Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/6a/6a27e8d59355-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 Lugano the quay Tessin Switzerland. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Lugano the quay Tessin Switzerland
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Lugano's lakefront quay on the Ticino side of Switzerland is the subject here, a waterfront that drew travelers coming south over the Alps into Italian-speaking country. The print is a photochrom, a process developed in Zurich in the 1880s by the Orell Füssli firm that hand-applied color stone by stone, and this example was issued by the Detroit Publishing Company, which bought up Swiss photochrom rights and sold views like it through its catalog. Its record places it between about 1890 and 1900, when the process was at its most popular among tourists and collectors who wanted colorful souvenirs of places they had visited.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 6766. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,664 × 2,735 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2486_Lugano_the_quay_Tessin_1890.tif-07807u |
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