Semmering Railway Bolleros Road and Rax Alp (i.e. Raxalpe) Styria Austro-Hungary – Historic Reproduction
![Semmering Railway Bolleros Road and Rax Alp (i.e. Raxalpe) Styria Austro-Hungary, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a1/a1c9192fc20a-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 Semmering Railway Bolleros Road and Rax Alp (i.e. Raxalpe) Styria Austro-Hungary. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Semmering Railway Bolleros Road and Rax Alp (i.e. Raxalpe) Styria Austro-Hungary
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The Semmering line, shown here with the Rax massif rising beside it, is one of the earliest mountain railways in Europe, and it was built to climb steep grades on the border of Styria and Lower Austria. Engineer Carl von Ghega opened the route in 1854, using viaducts and tunnels to carry trains over the Semmering Pass. This photochrom comes from a Detroit Publishing Company series of views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, with the catalog dated 1905, and it shows the color-lithography process that made such scenes popular with American travelers.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 8376. Views of the Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,618 × 2,750 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 3870_Semmering_Railway_Bolle_1890.tif-09591u |
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