Hahnenthor Cologne the Rhine Germany – Vintage Wall Art
![Hahnenthor Cologne the Rhine Germany, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ca/caae253b4d64-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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Hahnenthor Cologne the Rhine Germany comes to life in this historic print, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Hahnenthor Cologne the Rhine Germany
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The Hahnentor, or Rooster Gate, is one of the surviving medieval gates of Cologne's city wall, a stone passage that once controlled traffic into the old city from the southwest. Its image here shows the gate as a practical landmark of a city that was expanding well beyond its walls in the late 1800s. The picture is a photochrom, a color process that combined a black-and-white photograph with several hand-prepared lithographic stones, each inked in a different color. The Detroit Publishing Company issued this view in its 1905 catalog of German scenes, which helped make photochroms a popular way for American households to bring distant places into the parlor.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 6573. Views of Germany |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,644 × 2,738 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1740_Hahnenthor_Cologne_the_1890.tif-00814u |
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