Semmering Railway Breitenstein Styria Austro-Hungary – Historic Print
![Semmering Railway Breitenstein Styria Austro-Hungary, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9e/9ee07c4d4904-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.)
Description
Semmering Railway Breitenstein Styria Austro-Hungary comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
Choose the framed print, ready to hang the day it arrives, or the unframed print for a frame of your own. It brings character to any room and makes a memorable gift. Free shipping in the lower 48 states. Snapshots of the Past has been bringing history to the wall since 2001, for tens of thousands of customers worldwide.
Semmering Railway Breitenstein Styria Austro-Hungary
Order a print
Thank you. Your order went through, and a receipt is on its way by email.
Secure checkout · SSL encryptedPowered by Stripe and PayPal
Free shipping in the lower 48 states. The checkout page shows the picture, size and price before you pay.
The Semmering Railway, shown here at Breitenstein on the Styrian side of the pass, was one of the first major mountain railways in Europe. Engineer Carl von Ghega designed its curves, tunnels, and viaducts to climb the Alps without the steep gradients that rack-and-pinion systems would have required, and it opened in 1854. The photochrom process used for this print, a color lithographic method developed in Switzerland, was popular in the 1890s for documenting scenic and industrial sites across the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Detroit Publishing Company later sold these prints in America through its catalogues.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 8450. Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,556 × 2,620 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3871_Semmering_Railway_Breit_1890.tif-09592u |
More from the Railroads & Depots collection
Snapshots of the Past helps heritage brands, museums, historians and storytellers tell stories with history: historic prints, image licensing and historical storytelling drawn from more than 25 years of research and curation.
