The lighthouse Dunkirk France – Historic Print
![The lighthouse Dunkirk France, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/c4/c4720c70ed29-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.)
Description
A window into the past: The lighthouse Dunkirk France, 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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The lighthouse Dunkirk France
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This photochrom print shows the lighthouse at Dunkirk, a French port on the North Sea coast near the Belgian border, and it was made to be sold as a view of a working harbor landmark. The image is a photochrom, a color process based on Swiss lithographic printing that gave photographs a painted, saturated look. The Detroit Publishing Company, which held the American rights to the process, issued it in a catalog of French architecture and sites, and the print is numbered 8097 in its 1905 listing. Lighthouses like this one were practical navigation aids for busy shipping lanes, and photochroms of them were popular with travelers who wanted a souvenir of the coast.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 8097. Views of architecture monuments and other sites in France |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,148 × 2,322 px · prints to 10 × 8 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2370_The_lighthouse_Dunkirk_1890.tif-05031u |
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