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[View of Paris with church steeple in foreground] – Historic Photograph Print

[View of Paris with church steeple in foreground], [between 1850 and 1860] — historic photograph
[View of Paris with church steeple in foreground], [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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This rare historic photograph captures [View of Paris with church steeple in foreground] in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.

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[View of Paris with church steeple in foreground]

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A church steeple looms in the foreground of this stereoscopic daguerreotype, with the rooftops of Paris stretching away behind it, and the paired views give the scene its sense of depth through a stereoscope. Made between 1850 and 1860, it is a unique positive on a silver-coated copper plate, so no other copy of this exact view exists. The French hallmark Houssemaine Garanti 40 points to the silver standards of Paris workshops of the period. Views like this were popular with travelers and home viewers during the Second Empire, when Haussmann's boulevards were reshaping the city.

Created / published[between 1850 and 1860]
Medium1 photograph : stereoscopic daguerreotype.
GenreDaguerreotypes 1850-1860.Stereographs 1850-1860.Cityscape photographs 1850-1860.
NotesHallmark: Houssemaine Garanti 40. Purchase; Marian S. Carson; 1997; (DLC/PP-1997:105). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Congress). Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress)
SubjectsChurches--France--Paris--1850-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,609 × 3,680 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi
Reference89_View_of_Paris_with_chur_1850

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