Simplon Pass Winter Gallery Valais Alps of Switzerland – Historic Photograph Print
![Simplon Pass Winter Gallery Valais Alps of Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8a/8a91748ec595-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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Step back in time with Simplon Pass Winter Gallery Valais Alps of Switzerland, a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Simplon Pass Winter Gallery Valais Alps of Switzerland
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A snow gallery, the covered stretch of road that shields travelers from avalanches, sets this winter view apart from the other alpine scenes in the set. Napoleon's engineers built the Simplon road in the early 1800s, opening it in 1805 to link the Rhone valley at Brig with Italy, and galleries like this one were added along its high slopes to keep the route open in winter. The print is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland in the late 1880s that combined photography with hand-worked color from several stone plates. Detroit Publishing Company, which marketed these images in the United States, issued it in its 1905 catalog as number 6623.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 6623. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,670 × 2,716 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3922_Simplon_Pass_Winter_Gal_1890.tif-07885u |
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