war time soviet new year postcards.

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

henry clarke, fashion photographer. part 2.

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.)

old black and white postcards of moscow.

I am not sure how far back these date. Late 19th - early 20th century, definitely before the revolution.

 Rumyantsev museum

 History Museum

 Church of Our Lady of Vladimir

 Nikolskaya street

Old printing house

 Nikolskaya street again

Iliyinka gates

(Images found online. If you are aware of the source, please notify me.)