Published: 2022-06-23

The Album of the Lviv-Chernivtsi Railway and its author Adolf Schoon von Corbitzthal (1830–1904)

Anna Bednarek
Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej
Section: Studies and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM70.2022.1.004

Abstract

The Lviv-Chernivtsi Railway started to operate in 1866 r. and the major parts of its infrastructure, such as stations, bridges and rolling stock, were documented in a photographic album, probably commissioned by the management soon after the opening of the line in 1867. Copies of the album, some incomplete, have survived in several European and American collections. The photographs were taken by Adolf Schoon von Corbitzthal (1830–1904), an Austrian soldier and railway clerk employed by the Lviv-Chernivtsi Railway in the years 1866–1871. The album is one of many collections of photographs documenting railways produced in the second half of the 19th c., usually commissioned by companies building new lines and intended to both commemorate and advertise their work.

Keywords:

photographic album, photography, railway photography, history of photography, Adolf Schoon von Corbitzthal, Lwów-Czerniowce Railway, 19th century

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Bednarek, A. (2022). The Album of the Lviv-Chernivtsi Railway and its author Adolf Schoon von Corbitzthal (1830–1904). Kwartalnik Historii Kultury Materialnej, 70(1), 71–96. https://doi.org/10.23858/KHKM70.2022.1.004

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