Krieger Monument Thor Cassel Ave Cassel (i.e. Kassel) Hesse-Nassau Germany – Historic Photo Reproduction
![Krieger Monument Thor Cassel Ave Cassel (i.e. Kassel) Hesse-Nassau Germany, [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/f5/f5eaf1f76f51-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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Krieger Monument Thor Cassel Ave Cassel (i.e. Kassel) Hesse-Nassau 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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Krieger Monument Thor Cassel Ave Cassel (i.e. Kassel) Hesse-Nassau Germany
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Shown beside the Aue Gate (Aue-Tor) in Kassel, this view centers on the Krieger Monument, a war memorial in the Prussian province of Hesse-Nassau. Towns across Germany raised monuments like this to honor soldiers who had fallen in battle, and such memorials often stood at busy civic spaces where residents passed daily. The picture is a photochrom, a process developed in Switzerland in the 1880s that tinted black-and-white photographs with color printed from multiple stones, giving the scene its soft, painterly tones.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. catalogue J,1905. Title on piece: Kassel. Aue-Tor. Kriegerdenkmal. Print no. 17538. Views of Germany |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 3,675 × 2,759 px · prints to 12 × 9 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2196_Krieger_Monument_Thor_C_1890.tif-00616u |
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