Erdmannsdorf and Elbgrund Riesengebirge Germany – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Erdmannsdorf and Elbgrund Riesengebirge Germany, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/db/db2170936cf0-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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Erdmannsdorf and Elbgrund Riesengebirge Germany comes to life in this historic print, 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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Erdmannsdorf and Elbgrund Riesengebirge Germany
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Erdmannsdorf lies in the Riesengebirge, the Giant Mountains along the Silesian border, and this view pairs that village with the Elbgrund, the valley where the Elbe River begins its course toward the North Sea. The print is a photochrom, a color process developed in Switzerland in the 1890s that used several stone lithographs to build up its hues, and the Detroit Publishing Company sold such views in the United States. Its record dates the image to roughly the decade before 1900, when the region drew summer visitors seeking mountain walks and clean air.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 17526. Views of Germany |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,666 × 2,770 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 1039_Erdmannsdorf_and_Elbgru_1890.tif-00892u |
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