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Tuesday, July 1, 2014

Street hairdresser giving a 'Hindustani haircut' (pudding bowl)

 Street hairdresser giving a 'Hindustani haircut' (pudding bowl), Strand Road South, Kolkata. The High Court is in the left distance, the building behind could be the Volunteer HQ.
Source      http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/rare-100-year-old-photos-india-british-338333http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/rare-100-year-old-photos-india-british-338333

Hua Lamphong railway station, Bangkok’s main train station

Look at the postcard below of Hua Lamphong railway station, Bangkok’s main train station, for instance. Probably taken some time in the 1920s just a few years after Hua Lamphong was first opened (it opened in 1916), it honestly doesn’t look that much different almost 100 years later. There are just now more people, more cars and fashions have changed — as you’ll see by the photo below it taken in 2008.
Source..... http://tastythailand.com/old-postcards-of-bangkok-thailand-time-machines-to-days-gone-by-photos/

Sunday, June 29, 2014

1912 Paris Air Show

1912 Paris Air Show

In 1908 a section of the Paris Automobile Show was dedicated to aircraft. In 1909 a dedicated air show was held at the Grand Palais in Paris during which 100,000 visitors turned out to see products a
nd innovations from 380 exhibitors. The show has been held every year since. On November 10, 1912 the last day of the 1912 Paris Air Shoe (1912 Exposition Internationale AÉronautique – Salon de l’Aviation) took place. Exhibits include Balloons, dirigibles, monoplanes, biplanes, motors, military aircraft and motor design.
View from above of the French military stand at the 1912 Paris Air Show at the Grand Palais, Paris, France. The stand displays several small trucks outfitted with covered trailers for carrying an aviation squadron’s equipment.
1912 Paris Air Show
Grand Palais, Paris, France
French military exhibit

Saturday, June 21, 2014

Tuesday, June 17, 2014

Monday, June 16, 2014

Always moving: Workers dig in Delancy Street on New York's Lower East Side in this photo dated July 29,1908

Always moving: Workers dig in Delancy Street on New York's Lower East Side in this photo dated July 29, 1908. The historical pictures released online for the first time show New York in the late 19th and early 20th centuries

Wednesday, June 11, 2014

Emma Murphy, age 18, taken in Melbourne Australia

There is something about this photo that is so elegant. Emma Murphy, age 18, taken in Melbourne Australia in 1911. Original: http://www.ancientfaces.com/photo/emma-murphy-1911/1271934

The offices of the Burma Railway Company


The offices of the Burma Railway Company at the corner of Montgomery Street (now Bogyoke Aung San Street) and Sule Pagoda Road, c. 1920.

Sacramento and Dupont Streets. Lk. west. San Francisco California. Pre 1906 quake


Sacramento and Dupont Streets. Lk. west. San Francisco California. Pre 1906 quake. UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library

ေရႊစည္းခံုဘုရားႏွင့္ မုခ္၊ ပုဂံ (1855)

ေရႊစည္းခံုဘုရားႏွင့္ မုခ္၊ ပုဂံ (1855)
Entrance to the Shwe Zeegong Pagoda.[Pagan].
Photograph by Linnaeus Tripe of the entrance to the Shwezigon temple in the Pagan (Bagan) region of Burma (Myanmar), from a portfolio of 120 prints. With this portfolio of architectural and topographical views, Tripe, an officer from the Madras Infantry, created an early photographic record of Burma. The 1855 British Mission to Burma was instructed to persuade the Burmese king Mindon Min to accept the annexation of Pegu (Lower Burma) following the Anglo-Burmese War of 1852. It was also the intention of the British to collect information about the country. They travelled in Burma from August to early November 1855, stopping at various places to allow Linnaeus Tripe, the official photographer, and the mission's artist, Colesworthy Grant, to perform their duties. Capital of the first kingdom of Burma from the 11th to the 14th century, Pagan is one of the most important archaeological sites in South East Asia, with the remains of over 2000 stupas, temples and monasteries scattered over a 30 km radius.This view of the Shwezigon Pagoda
shows the massive Burmese temple guardian figures, also known as chinthes, or leogryphs. Tripe wrote, 'Shwe Zeegong is one of the most favourite places of worship in Burmah. It contains a facsimile of one of Gautama's teeth. It dates from about A.D. 1064'. An important place of pilgrimage in Pagan, the Shwezigon's lower terraces were apparently built by Anawrahta (ruled 1044-77) and the rest of the edifice was built by Kyanzittha (ruled 1084-1113).
BL > ျမန္မာ့ေရွးေဟာင္း ဓာတ္ပံုမ်ား

Saturday, May 24, 2014

Turkey::A scene from Bosphorus a hundred years ago

A scene from Bosphorus a hundred years ago and Dolmabahce, the last Ottoman Palace, at the back side in which there is a special room for the circumcised prince, nowadays on display in the Harem region.