ca. 1880Cologne
Cologne Cathedral, south side, towers scaffolded
Theodor Creifelds. The card back is lettered Photographische Anstalt Th. Creifelds, Domkloster, Cöln.
Street photograph
ca. 1880·Cologne
Cologne Cathedral, south side, towers scaffolded
Theodor Creifelds. The card back is lettered Photographische Anstalt Th. Creifelds, Domkloster, Cöln.
Street photograph · Surviving
What this plate shows
A photograph on a cabinet card. The back names Creifelds’s studio at Domkloster in Cologne. The picture is the cathedral from the south, one tower in scaffolding, the other already with its spire. About 1880. The unfinished tower is what the camera caught. Completion of the towers is a documented date, not a reason supplied here.
- Image type
- Street photograph
- Structure
- Cologne Cathedral, south side.
- Region
- Europe
- Documented completion
- Begun 1248. The towers were finished in 1880. In this exposure they are still scaffolded.
- Present status
- Surviving — The cathedral still stands, towers included. The scan is the card: studio imprint on the back, the photograph below. It is not a large plate.
- Source
- Wikimedia Commons scan of the cabinet card, front and back together. Albumen print, about 1880. The picture on the card is small. This is that scan, not a larger negative.
- License
- Public domain.