Jacob L. Loose Collection

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Businessman and humanitarian Jacob Loose and his philanthropist wife Ella were frequent travelers.  The collection is comprised of images from their early 20th century trips around the world, featuring views of locales as varied as Africa, Ceylon, India, Palestine, and numerous western European countries.
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Fontainebleau Palace across the L'Etang des Carpes

A view of the Palace of Fontainebleau; viewed at a distance from the surrounding park and across the L'Etang des Carpes where there is a perfect reflection in the water, in Fontainebleau, France. The hexagonal pavilion on an island in the pond is on the left side of the photograph. Printed in white ink across the bottom of the photograph, "Palais de Fontainebleau. Vue prise du Parc."
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Fountain of Apollo at Versailles

The Fountain of Apollo (Le Bassin d'Apollo), at the palace and park of Versailles in Versailles, France, has Apollo driving four horses out of the water while three mermen and two sea monsters accompany him in a shallow pond. A levy and another pond are in the background of the photograph. Printed in the margin below the photograph, " 42. — Versailles. — Le Parc L. P. phot., Le char embourbé."
Type: Image
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Petit Trianon at the palace at Versailles

The statue, Petit Trianon, is in the center of a round pond with cement walls at the side of the palace and park of Versailles in Versailles, France. Printed along the bottom of the photograph in white ink, "114. Versailles. - Le Château, côté du Parc. X. Phot."
Type: Image
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Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral

The southwest corner of the French Gothic style architecture of Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, France, from across the Seine river. The statue of Charlemagne and His Guards by Louis and Charles Rochet in the center of the photograph. Printed in white ink along the bottom of the photograph, "PARIS. — La Cathédrale, Église Notre-Dame. X. Phot."
Type: Image
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Hotel de Ville

Hôtel de Ville in Paris, France, has French Renaissance Revival architecture. The photograph is from across the Pl. de l'Hôtel de Ville from the southeast corner. The street has two horse-drawn carriages heading down the street toward the hotel. The sidewalks on either side of the street have quite a few men and women walking, some using parasols. Streetlamps line the both sides of the cobblestone street. The plaza in front of the hotel is full of carriages and people. Printed along the bottom of the photograph in white ink, "66, Paris _ Hôtel de Ville."
Type: Image
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Northeast corner of Château de Saint-Germain

Northeast façade of the French Gothic style architecture of the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France. A fence surrounds a patio outside of the palace with steps leading up to the patio from the wide sidewalk. Printed along the bottom of the photograph in white ink, "549 Château de Saint-Germain (XVIe Siècle). - Côté Nord-Est X. Phot."
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Dôme des Invalides

Dôme of Les Invalides, a French Baroque style architecture chapel in the National Residence of the Invalids in Paris, France. Printed along the bottom of the photograph in white ink, nearly illegible, "#27 Paris. Dôme of Les Invalides." It is surrounded by a high metal fence as tall as the two street lamps that stand on the sidewalk by the street in front of the chapel.
Type: Image
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Mirror Room at the palace of Versailles

The Hall of Mirrors at the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France, has a parquet floor, marble archways and columns around floor-to-ceiling mirrors on one side of the hall and windows on the other side of the hall, up to an arched, painted ceiling. Benches sit at the base of each column. Printed along the bottom in white ink, "124. Palais de Versailles — La Salle des Glaces. X. Phot."
Type: Image
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Outside of the Palace of Versailles

Main French Baroque façade of the Palace of Versailles in Versailles, France, shows a panorama of the entire front of the palace with a horse and carriage in front and a crowd of people at the gate. Printed across the bottom in white ink, "127. Palais de Versailles. - Façade principale. X. Phot."
Type: Image
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Exterior of Sainte-Chapelle

The exterior of the Gothic architecture Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France, shows the spire in the center of the photograph with the buttresses surrounding the chapel below supporting the steeply inclined roof. Printed in white ink across the bottom of the photograph, "639. PARIS. — La Sainte-Chapelle. X Phot."
Type: Image
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Jardin du Luxembourg

A view across the wide walkways, garden, and pool at the Luxembourg Palace and Garden in Paris, France. A few people stand around the wall of the pond. Printing in white on the bottom right-hand side of the photograph, "86. Paris. Luxembourg. (Jardin)."
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Seine river from Pont de la Tournelle

Seine River and Paris skyline showing Notre-Dame Cathedral, viewed from the Tournelle Bridge to the west in Paris, France. Two boats float near the shoreline on the left side of the photograph. The boat in front has a large 32 hanging from it's canvas roof shading the passengers. Several people walk across the Point de la Archesveche bridge to the left of Notre Dame. Printed in white ink along the bottom of the photograph, "PARIS. — La Seine, vue prise du Pont de la Tournelle. X. Phot." The river splits around the island that Notre Dame sits on in the center of the river.
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Bedroom of Anne of Austria

Bedroom of Anne of Austria in the Palace of Fontainebleau in Fontainebleau, France, has a canopied bed against a tapestry covered wall. A few chairs line the wall by the fireplace. The floor is parquet. There is a chandelier in front of the bed and the fireplace. Printed in white ink along the bottom of the photograph, "202. Palais de Fontainebleau. Le Lit d'Anne d'Autriche. X. Phot."
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Upper level interior, Sainte-Chapelle

Upper level interior of Sainte-Chapelle in Paris, France. The chapel is a Gothic style room with high arched and vaulted ceiling with beams outlining the vaults. The room is almost completely surrounded by stained glass windows. Arches surround the floor level: some windows or doors; some hallways.
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Palais du roi a Bruxelles

A soldier sweeps the cobblestones of the Place des Palais in front of the Royal Palace of Brussels in Brussels, Belgium. A guard shack sits on either side of the entrance to the palace. A few of the windows on the second floor are open. The building and the windows are all squared off, but at the center of the palace front are arched openings supporting six columns that support a deck at the height of the roof. A concrete fence with columns on each side of two gates is on the right side of the photograph. Printed in white ink in the margin below the photograph, "No 1257 Buxelles — Le Palais du Roi G.H. Phot."
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