Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

27 December 2013

old views of moscow streets.


Duma.


Tverskaya street.


Kalanchevskaya square.


Taganskaya square.


Red gates.


Arbat, general view.


Prechistenka street.



Mokhovaya street.


Soukoreff tower.

20 December 2013

vintage moscow postcards.

 Tsvetkov Gallery and Christ the Saviour Cathedral

 Birzhevaya (the Exchange) Square

 view from Iliyinka Street

 Moskvoretskaya Street

 Varvarka Street

 Varvarka Street


 Varvarskiye Gates

 Ilyinka Street

Near the Stone Bridge

11 December 2013

street life in london during 19th century.

John Thomson was a pioneering Scottish photographer. He travelled extensively, but during the later part of his career his focus was predominantly on London. In 1878 he published a book, Street Life in London. Below are some photographs from it.

Covent Garden flower women 

Halpenny Ices 

Old Furniture 

Recruiting Sergeants at Westminster

Street Doctors 

Street Floods in Lambeth 

the Old Clothes of St. Giles 

the Temperance Sweep 

the Water Cart 

Tickets, the Card Dealer

6 December 2013

vintage colourised photographs of paris.

















(Images found online. Several of these are watermarked as allday.ru. Please notify me of the source. of the others.)