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23 October 2010

Europe 1890 I've downloaded a selection of chromatographs from the Library of Congress. They're mostly photographs of traveling sights in Europe deftly coloured in.→[More:]Some locations.
Germany: Sylt, Helgoland, Neuschwanstein, Herrenchiemsee, Kreuznach, Nürenberg, Berchtesgaden, München, Baden Baden, Zugspitze, Dresden, Hamburg, Bremen, Lübeck, Eisenach, Coburg
France: the opera in Paris, the spa in Vichy, the spa in the Pyrenees, Nice, Strassbourg, Menton, Mt St Michel
Monaco
Switzerland; Basel
Poland: Danzig
Italy: Venice
Britain: Bath, Cambridge, Chester, Shrewsbury
NL: Haarlem, Amsterdam, Marken, Den Haag, Nijmegen, Utrecht, Arnhem
Austria-Hungary (also Czech Republic, Croatia)
Also some pictures from Tunisia and the US.

post by: jouke at: 13:13 | 8 comments

A few of these have been featured on peacays site.

posted by jouke 23 October | 13:14

I thought that said "Europe 1980" and was ready for some really tight fitting athletic clothes and some super dark eye makeup.

posted by Miko 23 October | 14:46

..and huge hair. Under armpits.

Sorry to disappoint you.

posted by jouke 23 October | 14:49

Gorgeous! Thanks for sharing, jouke.

posted by deborah 23 October | 16:56

Ah, I'm glad you like them too. Selecting the ones I like from the Library of Congress was a lot of work. Tip: select full screen and F11.
I don't know why I like these so much. I can look at them endlessly.
Part of it is that I know a lot of these cities. And especially the German cities, but also Rotterdam, are nothing like that anymore since the bomming raids of WWII.

posted by jouke 23 October | 23:37

Oops. bomming -> bombing.
That's what you get for commenting at 6:30 am on a sunday.

posted by jouke 23 October | 23:40

Of course it's not chromatography. We can't analyse chemicals with them.
They're photochroms from the Lib. of Congress.

posted by jouke 24 October | 00:15

I can look at them endlessly.
Part of it is that I know a lot of these cities.

I've never been to any of these places, and I find these fascinating and so lovely.

Thanks for posting these. I'm only about halfway thru, but just can't stop looking.

I think it's the interiors that I find the most interesting. It's like a tiny glimpse into seeing what life might have been like over 100 years ago.

posted by marsha56 24 October | 06:39

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