Spa guests at the Elisabethenbrunnen in the spa park of Bad Homburg: View of the neoclassical rotunda temple with exterior staircase and sculptural ornamentation, 1937.
View from the Rhine of a small riverside locality with church tower, steep slate slopes, and a castle ruin on the ridge in the Middle Rhine Valley, 1937.
View from the Rhine toward the Cologne Old Town, with the Romanesque tower of Groß St. Martin and the soaring towers of Cologne Cathedral in the background.
Aerial view of Cologne's Old Town with the Romanesque church of Groß St. Martin, the dense expanse of buildings in the Rhineside quarter, and a suspension bridge spanning the Rhine in the background.
Aerial view of a busy intersection in downtown Cologne with streetcars, automobiles, and the towering Cologne Cathedral at the edge of the frame, 1937.
Aerial view of Cologne's Old Town with the Romanesque church of Groß St. Martin and the densely built urban landscape of the city center, photographed in 1937.
Altar boys and clergy with processional banners and crucifixes process through a Cologne street—a testament to lived urban life in the 1937 travel film.
Bird's-eye view of a densely crowded downtown square in Cologne with streetcars, motor vehicles, and crowds of people in front of Gründerzeit-era buildings.
View over a bustling harbor basin in Hamburg: In the foreground, tugboats and barges; behind them, a two-funneled ocean liner behind a steel arch bridge.