Southsea beach England – Antique Print
![Southsea beach England, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/8f/8f70e9f9970a-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 Southsea beach England. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Southsea beach England
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This view of Southsea beach captures the shingle and seafront of the resort district beside Portsmouth on England's south coast. By the 1890s Southsea was a fashionable seaside town, and its promenade drew holidaymakers out for a stroll by the water. The image is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland in the late 1880s, and the Detroit Publishing Co. issued it in its 1905 catalog of English views. Its soft, saturated tones show how such resorts were presented to American audiences 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. 10219. Views of England |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,639 × 2,695 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3955_Southsea_beach_England_1890.tif-08864u |
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