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The lighthouse Neufahrwasser West Prussia Germany (i.e. Gdańsk Poland) – Vintage Print

The lighthouse Neufahrwasser West Prussia Germany (i.e. Gdańsk Poland), [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print
The lighthouse Neufahrwasser West Prussia Germany (i.e. Gdańsk Poland), [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].. Historic print from the Lighthouses collection.

(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 lighthouse Neufahrwasser West Prussia Germany (i.e. Gdańsk Poland), 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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Neufahrwasser, the outer harbor of Danzig, is the setting for this photochrom of its lighthouse, which guided ships working the approach to the port. In the 1890s Danzig, then in the German province of West Prussia, was a busy shipping point for grain and timber moving down the Vistula. The print uses photochrom, an early color process that layered several lithographic stones over a photograph, and it appeared in the Detroit Publishing Company's 1905 catalog of German views. The town is now Gdańsk in Poland, following the border changes after 1918 and 1945.

Created / published[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].
Medium1 photomechanical print : photochrom color.
NotesDetroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 8385. Views of Germany
SourceLibrary of Congress, Photochrom Prints
Original scan3,507 × 2,584 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi
Reference2374_The_lighthouse_Neufahrw_1890.tif-00755u

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