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Description: Ahrendts, Leopold St. Michael's Church; Friedrichwerdersche Church St. Michael's Church; Friedrichwerder'sche Church, Berlin. Early 1850s. 2 gold-toned albumen prints with rounded corners. 24 x 18 cm. Mounted to original board (minimally soiled) and annotated in ink in German below the image on the mount. Some light surface abrasions, first print with a few light spots in sky area, otherwise in very good condition and with a strong violet-brown tone. Lit.: Lothar de MaiziÞre/Antonius Jammers (eds.). Bevor Berlin zur Weltstadt wurde - die Residenz in Fotografien von Leopold Ahrendts. Berlin 2001, ill. p. 83 and p. 95 (similar view).