[Storthings Bygningen, Christiania, Norway] (LOC)

[Storthings Bygningen, Christiania, Norway]

[between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900].

1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.

Notes:
 Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J--foreign section. Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905.
Print no. 7084.
Forms part of: Landscape and marine views of Norway in the Photochrom print collection.

Subjects:
 Norway--Oslo.

Format: Photochrom prints--Color--1890-1900.

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Part Of: Landscape and marine views of Norway (DLC) 2001699563

More information about the Photochrom Print Collection is available athdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

Persistent URL: hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.06112

Call Number: LOT 13432, no. 010 [item]

Comments and faves

  1. ★

    Svein Håvard Djupvik, tkpainter, Mixmaster, Multipleks, and 86 other people added this photo to their favorites.

  2. Svein Håvard Djupvik (47 months ago | reply)

    The correct spelling is "Stortingsbygningen" - The Norwegian Parliament Building

  3. Beathe (47 months ago | reply)

    The contemporary spelling is Stortinget/Stortingsbygningen, but the old one is Storthinget, according to Ivar Aasen

    But of course, for searching Flickr, Stortinget is the best spelling. Here is some more images of Stortinget

    This photo, btw, is probably taken from Grand Hotel. Here is the relation between these two buildings sorrounding Eidsvolls Plass (square) So this image of Grand Hotel on Karl Johans Gate (usually called Karl Johan), in your collection is taken from Stortinget.

    And thanks for a super stream and sharing these photos! Please encourage every other library and museum.

  4. iPilos (47 months ago | reply)

    Preciosa fotografía!

  5. pappakonge (47 months ago | reply)

    Also notice the building on the right, it is the Freemasons building in Oslo.

    3d

  6. Trond Magnussen (47 months ago | reply)

    The Parliament building was finished in 1866.
    The Freemasons building, as mentioned, was build somewhere mid 1890's so the photo was probably taken late 1890's.

  7. torbj49 (47 months ago | reply)

    The Storting (Stortinget, literally "the Grand Assembly / Thing") is the Norwegian Parliament, and is located in the capital city Oslo. The Storting building was completed in 1866 and was designed by the Swedish architect Emil Victor Langlet.

    Did you know ...
    That the speakers gavel is made out of maple wood originating from George Washington's estate in Virginia, USA?

  8. hevold (47 months ago | reply)

    [Storthings Bygningen, Christiania, Norway] 2008

    This is what you see from the window in the Mikado suite in Grand Hotel 2009. Almost the same angle.

  9. geirrosset (46 months ago | reply)

    The park you see in the old photograph was replaced by "Spikersuppa" (The (iron)nail soup) in 1956. Oslo took over the area in 1889 and the plans for it were developed by architect Arnstein Arneberg. The reason for the name Spikersuppa was that it was funded by Christiania spigerverk (nail factory).
    More in Norwegian here: no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eidsvolls_plass_(Oslo)

  10. The Library of Congress (46 months ago | reply)

    Thanks taggers for adding the contemporary spelling of this structure to the list. We'll fix the title in the source data and reload the description.

  11. Svam1 (44 months ago | reply)

    WOW!!!

  12. MoFo Film (39 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Oslo – før og nå, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  13. melenama (28 months ago | reply)

    Hi, I'm an admin for a group called Norway by tips4travels, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

  14. This photo was invited and added to the Norway by tips4travels group.

  15. www.TG-PHOTO.com [deleted] (23 months ago | reply)

    You guys at The Library of Congress' do an amazing jobb! Thanks for keeping the past :)

  16. wefi - Anne Worner (23 months ago | reply)

    Another Norwegian chiming in here: the correct spelling is STORTING (Parliament).
    Fabulous to see this - different from the hustle and bustle there today!

  17. Hood Bloh (13 months ago | reply)

    tempoe doloe...

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