• Unknown (photographer)
• J. Nöhring (lithographer)
• Verlag August Lax (editor)

Album von Hildesheim Ansichtenund Kunstwerke

ca. 1885-1899

Portfolio containing 23 photographs showing views of buildings and monuments in the German town of Hildesheim in Lower Saxony. Some of the buildings depicted date back from the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries. Churches (St. Michael's church, St. Andrew's evangelical Church, St. Godehard's Church, Church of the Holy Cross), the Emperor's House, the Butcher's Guild Hall, a baptismal font, houses, hospital, hotels and the market place of the town, are the main subjects composing this portfolio : Knochenhauer - Amthaus; Zwei Häuser am Markt; Altdeutsches Haus, Osterstrasse; Rathhaus; Altdeutsches Haus, Dammstrasse, Altdeutsches Haus (Wiener Hof.); Roland-Hospital, Eckemeckerstrasse; Haus mit Medaillonbildern römisher Kaiser; Häuser am Andreas - Platz; Mittelalterliches Haus am Andreas-Platz mit der Durchfahrt; Taufbecken in Dom; Dom, Inneres mit Kronleuchter; Dom mit 1000 jähr, Rosenstock, Alte Ansicht; Domfriedhof mit Annenkapelle; Bernwards -Säule; Godehardi-Kirche, Mittelschiff; Godehardi-Kirche, Aeusseres; Michaelis-Kirche; Mittelschiff; Kreuzgang der Michaelis-Kirche;; Renaissance-Haus Neustädter Markt; Andreas-Kirche; Altdeutsches Haus, Hoherweg (Kniep).

Gelatin silver prints

album: 44.7 x 33.9 x 3.4 cm (17 5/8 x 13 3/8 x 1 5/16 in.) secondary supports: 43,1 x 32,4 cm compositions (min.): 28,9 cm compositions (max.): 30 x 24,2 cm

PH1982:0284:001-023

• exterior views
• interior views

- Contemporary binding consists of red cloth-covered boards with portfolio flaps, gold lettering and trim and female figure representation and coat of arms on front cover. Photographs are glued onto secondary supports.

Inscribed; stamped - 182/mmx/22 56 F (in pencil, in unknown hand, inside front cover, UL); Ex1315(in ink, in unknown hand, inside right flap, UR) stamped - ALBUM/von/Hildesheim/Ansichten/und Kunstwerke/Hildesheim,/Verlag von August Lax. (in gold on front cover) labelled on verso of secondary supports

Hildesheim; Germany;

• buildings
• churches
• market-place