On the sands Aberystwith Wales – Antique Photo Print
![On the sands Aberystwith Wales, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8e/8e1b218b1197-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 On the sands Aberystwith Wales. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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On the sands Aberystwith Wales
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Aberystwyth, the seaside town on Cardigan Bay on the west coast of Wales, is shown here from its sands, where holidaymakers gathered in the late Victorian years as the railway brought visitors to the resort. The print is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland in the 1880s that used several lithographic stones to reproduce a photograph in color. The Detroit Publishing Company sold these views in the United States, and this example is catalogued as print no. 10523 in its 1905 listing. The bright, layered color makes it a useful record of how a British seaside town presented itself to visitors at the turn of the century.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 10523. Views of landscape and architecture in Wales |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,373 × 2,493 px · prints to 11 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2982_On_the_sands_Aberystwit_1890.tif-07344u |
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