Arolla the hotel Valais Alps of Switzerland – Historic Reproduction
![Arolla the hotel Valais Alps of Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9c/9c47293fb010-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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Arolla the hotel Valais Alps of Switzerland comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Arolla the hotel Valais Alps of Switzerland
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The hotel at Arolla sat in a small alpine village in the Val d'Hérens, a valley of the Swiss Valais, where walkers and climbers stayed before heading up into the surrounding peaks and glaciers. The print was made by the photochrom process, developed in Zurich in the 1890s, which combined a black-and-white photograph with several hand-inked lithographic stones to produce color. Detroit Publishing Co. sold such views in the United States under a numbered catalog, and this one is listed as no. 9250 in its 1905 Switzerland series. The record dates it only to between about 1890 and 1900, the years when photochrom views of European resorts were most popular with travelers.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 9250. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,684 × 2,786 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 119_Arolla_the_hotel_Valais_1890.tif-07849u |
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