Album of photographs showing views of Germany and of Prague (Czech Republic)

People:

Unknown (photographer)

Title:

Album of photographs showing views of Germany and of Prague (Czech Republic)

Date:

1870s-1880s

Description:

Album of photographs showing views and monuments of german towns, mostly churches, castles, houses, streets, monnuments, museums and rivers. The cities shown are Munich, Wurzburg, Regensburg, Augsburg, Ulm, Stuttgart, Heidelberg, Bamberg, Nurnberg, Halberstadt, Munster, Strassburg, Speier, Worms, Wetzlar, Limburg, Marburg, Koln, Bonn, Karlsbad, Dresden, Berlin, Potsdam, Leipzig, Magdeburg, Braunschweig, Schwerin, Hamburg, Stendal, Doberan and Lubeck. Some views are from Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic).

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
1 album(s)

Technique and media:

Albumen silver prints

Dimensions:

album: 53.2 x 37.7 x 10.2 cm (20 15/16 x 14 13/16 x 4 in.) secondary supports: 52,9 x 34 cm compositions (min.): 5,7 x 9,4 cm compositions: 21,5 x 30,6 cm

Reference number:

PH1981:0772:001-227

Point of View:

exterior views
views, internal

Physical characteristics and technical requirements:

- Contemporary binding consists of reddish-purple cloth-covered boards with green leather spine and corners, with gold trim on spine and corners. Moiré endpapers, page edges in gold trim. - Front coverboard is detached from album.

Inscription:

inscribed, stamped - gift of (in ink, inunknown hand, on page following end paper, UR) Photographs views of/Germany(in pencil, in unknown hand, on page following end paper,UL).

Conditions governing access:

- Only accessible if manipulated by CCA Collection staff. Please see description physique.

Location:

Germany

Subject:

architecture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

houses
museums
statues
rivers
buildings
streets
castles
church towers
churches
monuments
religious buildings
cities
equestrian statues

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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