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Vintage B&W photos of Paris, France (late 19th Century)

26 September 2017 0

After the fall of the Commune, the city was governed under the strict surveillance of the conservative national government. The French government and parliament did not return to the city from Versaillles until 1879, though the Senate returned earlier to…

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Vintage: Ottawa – Capital City of Canada (late 19th Century)

13 September 2017 0

Starting in the 1850s, large sawmills began to be erected by entrepreneurs known as lumber barons, and these became some of the largest mills in the world. Rail lines erected in 1854 connected Ottawa to areas south and to the…

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Vintage: Gum Bichromate Process by Robert Demachy (late 19th Century)

7 September 2017 0

Robert Demachy was the leading French proponent of Pictorialism and the director of the Photo-Club de Paris, the French parallel to the American Photo-Secession (led by Alfred Stieglitz), the Viennese Kleeblatt, and the British Brotherhood of the Linked Ring. Like…

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Historic B&W photos of Copenhagen, Denmark, late 19th Century

31 August 2017 0

In 19th century, Copenhagen experienced a period of intense cultural creativity known as the Danish Golden Age. Painting prospered under C.W. Eckersberg and his students while C.F. Hansen and Gottlieb Bindesbøll brought a Neoclassical look to the city’s architecture. In…

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Vintage: Women’s Styles of Maine from the Late 19th Century

30 August 2017 0

19th century fashions are highly romanticized in books and movies. Despite the prim and proper feminine ideal of the day, fashions in this period created an often exaggerated, ostentatious look. Tight corsets, gigantic hoop-skirts, and outrageous bustles make today’s fashion…

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Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies born in the late 18th century (1700s)

26 August 2017 0

Photo collection of mid XIX century Victorian Era Daguerreotype Portraits of Ladies born in the late 18th century (1700s). via jessecollectorfreak @ Flickr

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Vintage: Daguerreotypes of St. Louis from 1848-70 by Thomas Easterly

18 August 2017 0

Thomas Easterly (1809-1882), a native of Vermont, was an itinerant photographer in Iowa and the upper Midwest until 1848 when he settled in St. Louis. He operated a daguerreotype studio in the city until the 1870s. Thomas photographed mostly portrait,…

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Historic B&W photos of Berlin, Germany (19th Century)

7 August 2017 0

The Industrial Revolution transformed Berlin during the 19th century; the city’s economy and population expanded dramatically, and it became the main railway hub and economic centre of Germany. Additional suburbs soon developed and increased the area and population of Berlin.…

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Vintage: Washington DC in the mid-19th Century (1840s-1860s)

5 August 2017 0

In the 1830s, the District’s southern territory of Alexandria went into economic decline partly due to neglect by Congress. The city of Alexandria was a major market in the American slave trade, and pro-slavery residents feared that abolitionists in Congress…

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Vintage: Dublin in the late 19th Century (1860s-1890s)

3 August 2017 0

Dublin, unlike Belfast in the north, did not experience the full effect of the industrial revolution and as a result, the number of unskilled unemployed was always high in the city. Industries like the Guinness brewery, Jameson Distillery, and Jacob’s…

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Vintage: Victorian Era Portraits by Lady Clementina Hawarden (1860s)

26 July 2017 0

Lady Clementina Hawarden (1 June 1822-19 January 1865) was a noted portrait photographer of the 1860s. Hawarden first began to experiment with photography in 1857, taking stereoscopic landscape photographs before moving to large-format, stand-alone portraits of her daughters. Much of…

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Vintage: Everyday Life of Cairo in the 19th Century (1860s-1880s)

10 July 2017 0

Under the Ottomans, Cairo expanded south and west from its nucleus around the Citadel. The city was the second-largest in the empire, behind only Constantinople, and, although migration was not the primary source of Cairo’s growth, twenty percent of its…

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Vintage: 19th Century Photographers with their Cameras

20 June 2017 0

Collection of vintage black and white photos of photographers with their cameras. From Beverly’s Flickr collection.

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Vintage: B&W Photos of Scotland from between the 1840s and 1880s

6 June 2017 0

In 19th century Glasgow became one of the largest cities in the world, and known as “the Second City of the Empire” after London. After 1860 the Clydeside shipyards specialised in steamships made of iron (after 1870, made of steel),…

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Vintage: Amsterdam in Victorian Era by Jacob Olie (1890s)

4 June 2017 0

At the end of the 19th century, the Industrial Revolution reached Amsterdam. The Amsterdam-Rijn kanaal was dug to give Amsterdam a direct connection to the Rhine and the Noordzee kanaal to give the port a connection with the North Sea.…

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Vintage: Everyday Life in Jamaica (1890s)

27 May 2017 0

The second half of the nineteenth century was a period of severe economic decline for Jamaica. Low crop prices, droughts, and disease led to serious social unrest, culminating in the Morant Bay rebellions of 1865. However, renewed British administration after…

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Vintage: Helsinki in the late 19th Century (1890s)

26 May 2017 0

During the 19th century, Helsinki became the economic and cultural center of Finland; as elsewhere, technological advancements such as railroads and industrialization were key factors behind the city’s growth. The first Helsinki railway station opened in 1862 with service to…

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Vintage: Japan in the late XIX Century (Meiji period, 1870s-1880s)

7 May 2017 0

In 1869 The Emperor was restored to nominal supreme power, and the imperial family moved to Edo, which was renamed Tokyo (“eastern capital”). However, the most powerful men in the government were former samurai from Chōshū and Satsuma rather than…

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Historic B&W photos of Amsterdam, Holland in the 19th Century

1 May 2017 0

The end of the 19th century is sometimes called Amsterdam’s second Golden Age. New museums, a train station, and the Concertgebouw were built; in this same time, the Industrial Revolution reached the city. The Amsterdam-Rhine Canal was dug to give…

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Vintage Daguerreotype portraits from XIX Century (1844 – 1860)

29 April 2017 0

Mathew B. Brady (1822 – 1896) was one of the first American photographers, who pioneered the daguerreotype technique in America. Brady opened his own studio in New York in 1844, and photographed Andrew Jackson and John Quincy Adams, among other…

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