Hotel du Ville or City Hall of Rheims, France, 1919 – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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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Step back in time with Hotel du Ville or City Hall of Rheims, France, 1919, a historic image rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
Library of Congress record: Hotel du Ville or City Hall of Rheims, France after bombardment
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Hotel du Ville or City Hall of Rheims, France, 1919
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Reims, in the Champagne region of northeastern France, was still recovering in 1919 from four years of fighting on the Western Front. Shelling and fire during the war had badly damaged the city, including its famous cathedral, and the population had been reduced by evacuations and the front-line destruction around it. The Hôtel de Ville, the seat of municipal government, stood as a civic symbol of the city's survival and its return to normal business. Reims was also the center of the champagne trade, and its cellars and wine houses were working to re-establish export markets after the armistice of November 1918. Residents of the time would have known the city first as a wine town and a cathedral city, and second as one of the places that had suffered most in the war.
| Created / published | 1919 |
|---|---|
| Creator | fletcher, h. a. |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--France |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,400 × 2,401 px · prints to 18 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Hotel du Ville or City Hall of Rheims, France after bombardment |
| Reference | FRANCE Hotel du Ville or City Hall of Rheims, 1919 |
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