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Vintage Ravensburg Germany Scrapbook Page B&W Photos Oberes Tor Veitsburg 11x14
Vintage scrapbook album page with seven mounted photographs, showing typical age-related wear and toning. Album leaf has light edge and corner wear, small surface scuffs on the black paper, and minor marks from previous handling. Photographs are securely attached with clean image surfaces, strong contrast, and no tears or missing pieces.
Original mid-20th-century German travel scrapbook page with seven black-and-white gelatin-silver photographs and postcard views mounted to a heavy black paper album leaf.
One side shows a fortified city gate complex with bridge and towers, with handwritten captions reading 'Kästlintor – (Nord)' and 'Kästlintor – von der innenstadt'; the lower snapshot includes parked 1950s-era cars and surrounding buildings.
The reverse side features panoramic views over Ravensburg, Germany, including a printed caption 'Ravensburg/Württemberg' and a handwritten note 'rechts Veitsburg (Geburtsplatz Heinrich d. Löwen)'.
Additional street and town-square scenes are captioned in German as the route to the Oberes Tor and to Grünkraut, with views of the Obere Tor gate, Gasthaus signage, and a courtyard with tower, cars, and bicycles.
Details: gelatin-silver photographs on paper mounted with adhesive to the album page, one side retaining a translucent textured tissue guard; extensive original handwritten German annotations in white ink plus whimsical line drawings of a walking figure, buildings, flowers, and a woman at a tavern table.
Theme and style: documentary landscape and architectural cityscape images from 1950s Germany, focused on historic gates, churches, towers, and travel scenes in and around Ravensburg and Veitsburg.
MSC177-42
