Nice from Smith's Villa – Historic Print
![Nice from Smith's Villa, [ca. 1900] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8c/8c8c0ab76c49-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 photograph of Nice from Smith's Villa. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Titled for a place called Smith's Villa, this view takes in the waterfront at Nice on the French Riviera, a city the record links to the 1890 to 1910 period. The print is one of several in an album that also covers Genoa, Pisa, Verona, and Vienna, so it was likely kept as a travel souvenir. By the late nineteenth century, Nice had become a fashionable winter resort for European and British visitors, drawn by its mild climate and seafront promenade. The vantage point, looking down toward the shore, is worth noticing for what it shows of that resort life.
| Created / published | [ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Genre | Cityscape photographs 1890-1910.Photographic prints 1890-1910. |
| Notes | In album: Genoa, Pisa, Nice, Avignon, Parma, Milan, Verona, Vienna, p. 103. No. 32. |
| Subjects | Waterfronts--France--Nice--1890-1910. Nice (France)--1890-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,287 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-180140 |
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