Hotel & Pension de la Couronne Andermatt Travel Brochure – 1910's–1920's

Early twentieth-century photographic advertising booklet for Hotel & Pension de la Couronne in Andermatt, Switzerland, on the St Gotthard route. The cover pairs a photograph of the hotel and a period motor car with elegant serif lettering, naming A. & S. Camenzind as proprietors and presenting Andermatt as a summer and winter destination.

The photographs offer a detailed glimpse of Alpine travel and hotel life: an open postal motor coach on the Andermatt–Furka–Meiringen route, a wicker-furnished salon, a dining room and restaurant, views over Andermatt and the Reuss waterfall, and a snowy toboggan run. A broad winter panorama extends across an opening, bringing the village and its mountain setting into a single composition.

French promotional text describes local excursions, winter sports and hotel amenities. Handwritten amendments to the printed room and board rates add a distinctive detail to this surviving piece of hotel advertising. The imprint reads Institut Art. Brügger, Meiringen. The booklet is provisionally dated to the late 1910s or early 1920s; the exact publication year is not established.

An appealing piece for collectors of Swiss hotel memorabilia, Gotthard-route tourism and early motoring or winter-sports imagery, combining intimate interior views with a wider portrait of Andermatt as an Alpine resort.

• Type: Photographic hotel advertising booklet
• Condition: Good (G), with minor tearing and creasing, wear and small openings along the spine, and light edge and corner wear. Printed rates have handwritten amendments. Please examine all photographs for details.
• Size: 16 × 12 cm (6.30 × 4.72 inches)
• Style: Early twentieth-century Alpine travel photography / Belle Époque-style typography
• Location: Andermatt, Uri, Switzerland
• Date: Late 1910s–early 1920s (estimated)
• Hotel: Hotel & Pension de la Couronne
• Proprietors: A. & S. Camenzind
• Pages: 6, as stated by the seller
• Language: French
• Printer: Institut Art. Brügger, Meiringen

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