"Grosser Kurfurst" Promenade Deck North German Lloyd Royal Mail Steamers – Vintage Photo Print
!["Grosser Kurfurst" Promenade Deck North German Lloyd Royal Mail Steamers, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a5/a5be62eebd6f-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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Step back in time with "Grosser Kurfurst" Promenade Deck North German Lloyd Royal Mail Steamers, a historic print rich in period detail. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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"Grosser Kurfurst" Promenade Deck North German Lloyd Royal Mail Steamers
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The promenade deck of the North German Lloyd steamer *Grosser Kurfürst* is the focus here, a stretch of open deck where first-class passengers walked, sat, and watched the coastline or open water slide past. North German Lloyd, the Bremen-based line, carried travelers and emigrants across the Atlantic, and its large liners were showpieces of the era's shipbuilding. This print comes from the Photochrom process, developed in Switzerland, in which a black-and-white photograph was transferred to multiple lithographic stones and hand-colored, giving the scene its soft, painterly tones. The Detroit Publishing Company sold such views in America in the 1890s and early 1900s, which is why the picture reached a wide public as a souvenir of travel.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 17213. Views of Germany |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,686 × 2,759 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1692_Grosser_Kurfurst_Promen_1890.tif-02210u |
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