Sujet

The Opening of the Baltic Canal: lock at Rendsburg, for communication with the Eider, 1895. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

The Opening of the Baltic Canal: lock at Rendsburg, for communication with the Eider, 1895. Illustration from a '...Supplement commemorative of the opening of the Baltic [or Kiel] Canal'. The 98-kilometer-long (61 mile) freshwater canal links the North Sea to the Baltic Sea. It runs through the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, from Brunsbüttel, at the mouth of the Elbe, to Holtenau, on the Kiel Fjord. It was constructed between 1887 and 1895. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.

Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Notre référence

HRM26A09_106

Model release

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Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

28,3Mo (2,1Mo) / 31,0cm x 22,9cm / 3661 x 2706 (300dpi)

Mots clés

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