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[Unidentified French city view] – Antique Photo Print

[Unidentified French city view], [between 1850 and 1860] — historic photograph
[Unidentified French city view], [between 1850 and 1860]. Historic photograph from the Daguerreotypes & Early Photography 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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[Unidentified French city view] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A stereoscopic daguerreotype like this one is a pair of nearly identical plates, made to be seen together through a stereoscope so the street appears to rise in three dimensions. The catalog places the scene in Toulouse, though the title still calls the city unidentified, and a partly legible sign on one building is the clue that a researcher used to make the link. Daguerreotypes of this kind, made in the 1850s, are rare because each plate is a single mirror-like image that cannot be copied. Toulouse, known for its brick buildings, offers a useful way to judge the street's materials and architecture.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : stereoscopic daguerreotype.
GenreOuest
NotesTitle devised by a researcher who owns a duplicate stereo (May 2002). Signage on buildings include: rendes
SubjectsToulouse (France)--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,609 × 3,719 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
Reference91_Unidentified_French_cit_1850

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