Beach and pier Penarth Wales – Historic Print
![Beach and pier Penarth Wales, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/98/98fb67967c57-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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A window into the past: Beach and pier Penarth Wales, preserved in this historic print. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Beach and pier Penarth Wales
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The pier and sands at Penarth, a seaside town on the Bristol Channel just south of Cardiff, are the focus here, with the pale water and the pier stretching out from the shore. Penarth developed as a Victorian resort in the late 1800s, when rail links and the nearby Cardiff docks brought steady numbers of day-trippers to its promenade and beach. The photochrom process used to make this print was a Swiss method that colored black-and-white negatives by hand-registered stone lithography, producing soft, saturated tones. Detroit Publishing Co. later sold these views in the United States, and this copy comes from its 1905 catalog, which offers a useful snapshot of how British coastal towns were presented to American buyers.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 11183. Views of landscape and architecture in Wales |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,675 × 2,776 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 242_Beach_and_pier_Penarth_1890.tif-07467u |
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