Austria, Vienna. Opera house – Antique Print
![Austria, Vienna. Opera house, [between 1908 and 1919] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8a/8aaed2ebd6ff-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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Austria, Vienna. Opera house comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Austria, Vienna. Opera house
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Vienna's opera house on the Ringstrasse, the grand boulevard built on the old city walls, is the subject here, and the building's history runs through the glass negative's date range. Architects August Sicard von Sicardsburg and Eduard van der Nüll designed it in the Renaissance Revival style, and it opened in 1869 as the Court Opera, shortly after both men had died. The photograph dates from the years when the building still served the Habsburg court, before the monarchy fell in 1918 and it became the State Opera.
| Created / published | [between 1908 and 1919] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negative or negative sleeve. Date from negatives in same range. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. This glass negative might show streaks and other blemishes resulting from a natural deterioration in the original coatings. Temp. note: Batch five. |
| Source | Library of Congress, National Photo Company Collection |
| Original scan | 5,954 × 4,244 px · prints to 20 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-NPC-249283 |
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