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Call Number:

PH-01057

Collection Name:

Adolphe Braun & Co. Photography Collection

Creator:

Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)

No. of Items:

21 photographs

Span Dates:

1870s-1880s

Description:

The collection consists of 21 photographs by the German photographic studio and publishers Adolphe Braun & Co. of Dornach, Switzerland. Twenty (964:0374:0001-0020) are albumen prints from circa 1880 of the St. Gotthard Railway Route at the time of its construction, and one (981:0017:0001) is a carbon print of a Swiss mountain scene dating to the 1870s.

Accession No(s):

964:0374:0001-0020; 981:0017:0001

Location(s):

2 osb (Boxes 1-2)
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Item(s):

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Axenstrasse, from the Gutsch tunnel.
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0001

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	The Axenstrasse, looking back to Brunnen
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0002

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Axenstrasse-Bridge over the Grunfischbach
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0003

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	The Grunbach [?]-view up the Ruess valley
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0004

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Karstellenbach Bridge under construction
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0005

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Karstellenbach Bridge. St. Gotthard Railway
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0006

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Lower & Michelle Meyen Reuss Bridge, at Wasen
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0007

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Upper Mergen Reuss Bridge
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0008

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Great Zig Zag at Wasen-General view
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0009

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Wasen
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0010

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	The Reussthal from above Wattingen
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0011

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Station. Goeschenen [sic, Goschenen]
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0012

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	[Wahshops] at Goeschenen [sic, Goschenen]
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0013

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Giornico
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0014

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Bridge at Dazio
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0015

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Dazio Gorge
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0016

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Lower Tunnel, Giornico
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0017

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Al Giornico
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0018

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Al Giornico
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0019

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	Giornico
Date	circa 1880
Medium	Albumen print
Dimensions	22.1 x 28.1 cm; 8 7/10 x 11 1/10 in
Credit line	Gernsheim Collection, purchase
Accession Number	964:0374:0020

Artist/Maker	Adolphe Braun & Co., active 1870 - 1879 (Organization)
Title	[Mountain scene, Switzerland]
Date	1870s
Medium	Carbon print
Dimensions	mount: 71.2 x 53.3 cm; 28 x 21 in; print: 47.8 x 37 cm; 18 4/5 x 14 3/5 in
Accession Number	981:0017:0001

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Braun, Adolphe (964:0375:0001-0008) 6G:LP:B Box, Large

[Photograph album with musical box...filled with cartes-de-visite of the period.] (964:0467:0052) f TR 655.11 C527 HRC-P

Stereograph Collection (964:0797:0001-0004) FC-16 DR-1 "Braun"