April 17, 2024
California Salton City, Salton Sea Railroad Bridge, c1912 Photogravure Print Pri
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This print is from a rare portfolio of high quality photogravure prints dating from around 1912. The printing method was the mechanical photogravure-- an extremely high-end printing method of the Victorian/Edwardian era that delivered incredible detail and no dot matrix pattern. This approximately 100+ year-old print depicts the railroad bridge over the Salton Sea near Salton City, California.The Salton Sea is a shallow, saline, endorheic rift lake located directly on the San Andreas Fault, predominantly in California's Imperial Valley. The lake occupies the lowest elevations of the Salton Sink in the Colorado Desert of Imperial and Riverside counties in Southern California. Like Death Valley, it is below sea level. Currently, its surface is 226 ft (69 m) below sea level. The deepest area of the sea is 5 ft (1.5 m) higher than the lowest point of Death Valley. The sea is fed by the New, Whitewater, and Alamo rivers, as well as agricultural runoff drainage systems and creeks. This incredibly beautiful photogravure is single-sided. It was glued onto gray/brown paper by the corners. It would probably be fairly easy to steam off the photogravure, but I have not tried. The outer gray paper has wear at the corners that could easily be trimmed. Tons of detail in this print, and beautiful tones. This would look wonderful framed. The brown
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