Interlaken Grand Hotel Victoria Bernese Oberland Switzerland – Vintage Wall Art
![Interlaken Grand Hotel Victoria Bernese Oberland Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/af/afccbca88287-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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This rare historic print captures Interlaken Grand Hotel Victoria Bernese Oberland Switzerland in remarkable 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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Interlaken Grand Hotel Victoria Bernese Oberland Switzerland
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The Grand Hotel Victoria in Interlaken sits in the Bernese Oberland, a town set between Lakes Thun and Brienz with the Jungfrau massif in view to the south. The photochrom process used for this print was a Swiss technique, developed in Zurich in the 1880s, that produced vivid color from a set of photographic plates. Detroit Publishing Co., which issued this numbered view in its 1905 catalog, sold such prints to American travelers and armchair tourists. In the late 1800s, Interlaken was a fashionable stop for visitors touring the Alps, and grand hotels like this one catered to them, which makes the picture a useful record of how Swiss resort life was presented to a North American audience.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 17557. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,683 × 2,776 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1973_Interlaken_Grand_Hotel_1890.tif-06903u |
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