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[Birth-place of Goethe, Frankfort, Germany] – Historic Print

[Birth-place of Goethe, Frankfort, Germany] — historic photograph
[Birth-place of Goethe, Frankfort, Germany]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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Goethe's birthplace on Frankfurt's Großer Hirschgraben is the house where Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born on August 28, 1749, and it stands as one of the most visited literary sites in Germany. The family home was a substantial middle-class townhouse, and Goethe spent his early years there before the Goethe family's fortunes and his own career took him elsewhere. The house was badly damaged during the Second World War and was later rebuilt and reopened as a museum devoted to the poet's life. This photograph, though undated in its record, shows the building as a monument to a writer whose works shaped German literature.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,285 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-118970

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