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Andernach

Francis Frith

Date: 1864
Medium: Albumen silver print
Culture: English
Department: Photographs
Institution: Getty Museum

A view of the "Old Crane" (Alte Krahnen) next to the banks of the Rhine, in the town of Andernach. The building is round and has a treadwheel tower crane coming out the top. Various pieces of dressed stone surround the building, while barges are moored by the riverbank.

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Creator

Francis Frith

Photographer · 1822–1898

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Before turning his attention to photography around 1850, Francis Frith was apprenticed to a cutlery firm and worked as a wholesale grocer. With a partner he opened the Frith & Hayward photography studio in Liverpool. In 1856 Frith made an extended trip to Egypt, traveling up the Nile from Cairo to Abu Simbel. He photographed along the entire way, using three different cameras: a stereoscopic one a