Altenstein Castle Thuringia Germany – Historic Photograph Print
![Altenstein Castle Thuringia Germany, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/79/79e0f78e9d85-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: Altenstein Castle Thuringia Germany, preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Altenstein Castle Thuringia Germany
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The Altenstein picture shows a castle set in the Thuringian landscape, a view that the Detroit Publishing Company sold as a souvenir of German travel. Altenstein was a residence of the ducal house of Saxe-Meiningen, and its romantic architecture and park grew out of the nineteenth-century taste for picturesque estates. This print is a photochrom, made by a process that hand-colored a photograph into vivid, almost painterly tones. Its catalog number, 6528, places it in the company's series of German views, which were marketed to American travelers and armchair tourists in the years around 1900.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 6528. Views of Germany |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,664 × 2,727 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 75_Altenstein_Castle_Thuri_1890.tif-01077u |
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