Monte Rosa and Hotel Schwarzsee Valais Alps of Switzerland – Historic Reproduction
![Monte Rosa and Hotel Schwarzsee Valais Alps of Switzerland, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/cb/cb51617caa0d-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 Monte Rosa and Hotel Schwarzsee Valais Alps of Switzerland, a historic print rich in period detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Monte Rosa and Hotel Schwarzsee Valais Alps of Switzerland
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The view centers on Monte Rosa, the great massif on the Swiss-Italian border, seen from the Hotel Schwarzsee, a mountain inn in the Valais above Zermatt. Visitors who made the climb to the small lake beneath the Matterhorn often stopped at the hotel, which made the spot a familiar destination for walkers and early alpine tourists. The picture was made by the photochrom process, a method that transferred a black-and-white photograph into a multicolor lithograph, and it belongs to a series of Swiss views issued in the 1890s. Its soft, painted-looking colors show how the process was meant to make distant mountain scenery feel immediate to people who would never travel there.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Print no. 1466. Views of Switzerland |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,650 × 2,706 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2705_Monte_Rosa_and_Hotel_Sc_1890.tif-07906u |
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