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Hotel Beau Rivage. Geneva – Antique Print

Hotel Beau Rivage. Geneva, [between 1860 and 1890] — historic photograph
Hotel Beau Rivage. Geneva, [between 1860 and 1890]. Historic photograph from the Taverns & Saloons 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Hotel Beau Rivage. Geneva. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Hotel Beau Rivage. Geneva

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Travelers crossing Lake Geneva in the late nineteenth century would have known the Hotel Beau Rivage, and this print preserves its image from that era. The record places it in a travel album that also covered Athens, Egypt, the Rhine, the Tyrol, and Salzburg, with the print on page 30. Albumen prints like this one, made by coating paper with egg white and silver salts, were the standard photographic process from about 1860 to 1890, and albums of such views let armchair travelers tour the same destinations as the wealthy visitors who filled hotels like this one.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1890]
Medium1 photographic print : albumen.
GenreAlbumen prints 1860-1890.
NotesIn album: Athens, Egypt, Rhine, Switzerland, Tyrol, Salzburg, p. 30, upper right.
SubjectsHotels--Switzerland--Geneva--1860-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan4,096 × 3,275 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-185464

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