[Tourist's house, Spitzbergen, Norway] (LOC)

[Tourist's house, Spitzbergen, 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. 7184.
Forms part of: Landscape and marine views of Norway in the Photochrom print collection.

Subjects:
 Norway--Spitsbergen Island.

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.06221

Call Number: LOT 13432, no. 119 [item]

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    *BOJ* added this photo to his favorites. (48 months ago)

  2. Ἐπίκουρος (48 months ago | reply)

    This must be photographed after 1905, since the "sildesalat" (herring salad) is not present in the Norwegian flag.

    See:
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_badge_of_Norway_a nd_Sweden

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    samelliottsmoustache, HeadOvMetal, Sarah Boomz, and art is remedy added this photo to their favorites.

  4. oalsaker (48 months ago | reply)

    epikuros1: Sildesalaten was discontinued in 1898. It says so in your source. May I suggest you read it better the next time?

  5. Ἐπίκουρος (48 months ago | reply)

    Of course, always do! The norwegian state flag got rid of the herring salad in practice on the 15th december 1899 (not in 1898). But this is not a state flag, it is a split flag (orlogsflagg). Split flags continued to have the herring salad until a couple of days after the dissolution of the union. But when I look at this flag more closely I have to say it looks more like a "postal flag" - I therefore hope a norwegian postal historian could enlighten us more on this issue.

  6. geirrosset (48 months ago | reply)

    Surely this must be what is mentioned here: "In 1896 Vesteraalens Steamship Co built a simple tourist hotel in Advent Bay and started a regular service between the mainland and Svalbard."
    Source: home.online.no/~polar-ps/engtxt1.html

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    ted @ndes added this photo to his favorites. (48 months ago)

  8. jan.of.norway (48 months ago | reply)

    The flag above is most likely to be a Norwegian postal flag.
    As in geirrosset source - Fred G writes; the Norwegian postal authorities puts up a "letter house" in this tourist house.
    Mind you; Spitsbergen is at this time still a No Mans Land!
    This official action by the postal authorities creates attention in the media, and opens again up the debate about Spitsbergen's international status and the wish to get the archipelagos under Norwegian sovereignty.

  9. jan.of.norway (48 months ago | reply)

    This is the sea-side view of the tourist house situated at Adventpyten close to the entrance of Advent Bay. Later on the area is called Hotellneset.
    The tourist house was in 1908 moved to Longyear City or Skjæringa, some 4 km east.

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