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[Palais de la Préfecture, Nice, France (Riviera)] (LOC)

[Palais de la Préfecture, Nice, France (Riviera)] (LOC) [Monte Carlo Casino, Monaco (Riviera)] (LOC) [Place Masséna, Nice, France (Riviera)] (LOC) [Opera House staircase, Paris, France] (LOC) [Church, Saint-Ferréol les Augustins, Marseille, France] (LOC) [Hillside, Mentone, Riviera (i.e., Menton, France)] (LOC) [Pont Napoléon, Nice, France (Riviera)] (LOC) [Monte Carlo Casino, gardens, Monaco (Riviera)] (LOC) [Waterfront, Monte Carlo, Monaco (Riviera)] (LOC) [Old Harbor (Vieux-Port), Marseille, France] (LOC) [Old Harbor (Vieux-Port), Marseille, France, with Hotel Beauvau at right] (LOC) [Old Harbor (Vieux-Port), Marseille, France, with Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in background] (LOC) [Chateau du Pharo, Old Harbor (Vieux Port), Marseilles, France] (LOC) [Monte Carlo and Cap Martin, Monaco (Riviera)] (LOC) [Monte Carlo, from Fort Antoine, Monaco (Riviera)] (LOC) [Corniche Road, Marseilles, France] (LOC) [Winter scene with log structure, Grisons, Switzerland] (LOC) [Winter scene with log structure, Grisons, Switzerland] (LOC) [Winter scene with log structure, Grisons, Switzerland] (LOC) [Frauenkirch, near Davos, Grisons, Switzerland, in winter (reversed)] (LOC)

TERRIFIC! We asked for help on Dec. 24th to identify 22 travel views. Within a few days, Flickr members had identified every single photo. With: great confirmation from old & new pictures, links to maps, and more. Even the scenes that turned out to be printed in reverse didn't slow you down!

With a special shout out to epicharmus, trialsanderrors, and whyaduck for bringing related photochrom views and new numbering pattern clues into view.

Here's just one example of how well the group effort worked:
www.flickr.com/photos/library_ of_congress/4211207938

France and the Mediterranean coast were the likely locations for these 22 travel views, called photochroms, from ca. 1900. They were the only pictures in a collection of 6,000 that arrived without the usual gold-printed titles along a bottom edge.

For more information about photochroms, see hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.pgz

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trialsanderrors  Pro User  says:

Wouldn't it make more sense to post these images after all the French and Italian photochromes have been posted on Flickr?
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The Library of Congress  Pro User  says:

We did think about that path, but with almost a 1,000 photochrom views of France and Italy to load, it would be a long while before those images were fully in Flickr.

Mostly, though, the Flickr community's ability to recognize sites and then confirm locations with "now" photos or map views has been very impressive. Definitely up to this kind of challenge!
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Zoar3 says:

Thank God that it is solved
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