![Atop Empire State- in construction; Chrysler Bldg & [Daily] News in middle foreground. (1931)](../../../wp-content/uploads/2011/05/Atop-Empire-State-in-construction-Chrysler-Bldg-Daily-News-in-middle-foreground.-1931--199x123.jpg "Balancing on the Empire State")
All images: LoC Photochrom Print Collection
Colour photocroms of Venice, 1890s
If you like this, check out:
Colour photographs of Dublin, 1961
Colour photographs of Soho, London, 1950s
Colour photographs of objects, 1915
Old Japan in 3D
Living Insignia, WWI
The Disappearing Face of New York
Evolution of the London Underground Map, 1889-2002
Spitalfields Nippers, 1912
Evolution of the Map of Africa
Synthetica. A New Continent of Plastics
Dynamism of a Dog on a Leash, 1912
Last Surviving Witness of the Lincoln Assassination
Colourised postcards of Kansas City, 1920s / 1930s
The kitchen that time forgot
Corner Portraits by Irving Penn
What’s especially nice is that there are no cars all over the place.
From what i remember that’s still true today… In the heart of the city there are no cars allowed…
Have you actually been to Venice? The reason you don’t see cars is that there are no roads! You can only travel on foot or by boat . . .
Great pics - have seen nearly all of the sights shown over our last six visits to the island. Expensive, but worth every penny.
Very nice.
La Serrimissima! ahhhhhh. So beautiful even in 1890. Even more beautiful now they have Nutta Crepes!
Wow. It’s sad that so beautiful a place may not be around for much longer. Venice is far and away the most breathtaking place I have ever been.
It is always fascinating to realize how little the city has changed in more than a century.
Just change people’s clothes, put some motorboats in the canals and some sparse neon lights over the shops, and those photos could have been taken today - that’s just the buildings anyway, as the city life is just a hollow memorabilia of what it was up until the 60s.
Very nice!!! Venezia is such a beautiful city!
These are beautiful! Thanks for sharing
After playing Assassin’s Creed 2 i recognize some of the landmarks. Games can be pretty effective travel guides
)
These pictures are beautiful, but why did you have to use such awful lightbox code? The “expand” function expands the box beyond the boundaries of the browser window, so you have to scroll, sometimes both horizontally and vertically, to find the controls.
It’s interesting how the technique makes them all look like Impressionist paintings…
Funny how I recognise several of those places from playing Tomb Raider 2! =OD