Lake and hotel Vyrnwy Wales – Vintage Print
![Lake and hotel Vyrnwy Wales, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/e3/e3794abf848c-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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Lake and hotel Vyrnwy Wales 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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Lake and hotel Vyrnwy Wales
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Lake Vyrnwy, in the hills of mid-Wales, is a reservoir created to supply water to the city of Liverpool, and the hotel beside it was built to serve the visitors drawn to the new lake. This print shows the lake and hotel as they appeared between about 1890 and 1900, rendered in photochrom, a costly process that transferred photographs to color lithographic stones. The Detroit Publishing Company sold such views to American buyers as travel pictures, and this one is a useful record of a landscape reshaped by modern engineering, with the hotel marking the tourism that followed.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Print no. 10550. Views of landscape and architecture in Wales |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,646 × 2,747 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2250_Lake_and_hotel_Vyrnwy_W_1890.tif-07501u |
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