Monday, October 6, 2014
Sunday, July 6, 2014
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
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/
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.
Saturday, June 21, 2014
Peasants harvesting hay, Mariinskii Canal, 1909.
Russia
A group of men eat at an open-air restaurant in modern-day Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Thailand ....Amazing photos of Bangkok from 100 years ago that show a metropolis in the making
Toungoo, Myanmar 1910
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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
Sunday, June 15, 2014
Thursday, June 12, 2014
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
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).
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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.
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