The beautifully preserved Theseion with distant Acropolis, Athens, Greece – Vintage Wall Art
(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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A window into the past: The beautifully preserved Theseion with distant Acropolis, Athens, Greece, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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The beautifully preserved Theseion with distant Acropolis, Athens, Greece
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Few ancient buildings in Athens survive as completely as the Theseion, a Doric temple on a rise northwest of the Agora, here framed with the Acropolis in the distance. Built in the decades after the Persian Wars, it was long called the Temple of Theseus, a name that stuck even though it was most likely dedicated to Hephaestus. This stereograph, issued by the American Stereoscopic Company around 1907, was made for parlor viewers that fused two slightly offset photographs into one three-dimensional scene. Its caption details come from the card itself and have not been independently verified.
| Created / published | c1907. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by American Stereoscopic Co. No. 2139. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,222 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159478 |
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