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Postcard 1950s Åndalsnes Norway RPPC Mountain Village Normann Photo
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RPPC · 1955

Postcard 1950s Åndalsnes Norway RPPC Mountain Village Normann Photo

Åndalsnes, Norway1955RPPCGood

Dramatic mountain walls rear up behind a tidy cluster of white-painted Norwegian houses in this evocative real-photo postcard of Åndalsnes, the small fjordside town at the foot of the legendary Romsdalshorn peak — a destination that drew mountaineers and tourists even in the early postwar decades. Photographed by the celebrated Norwegian landscape lensman Normann, the composition places two figures in the foreground of a broad open square, likely the harbourfront plaza near the railway terminus, with a vintage passenger train visible at the left edge and tall flagpoles standing sentinel in the quiet summer air. The back is blank — never mailed — preserving the card in pristine condition, published by Eneret: Carl Normanns Kunstforlag, the prolific Oslo house that distributed Normann's imagery across Scandinavia for generations.

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