All images: LoC Photochrom Print Collection
Colour photocroms of Venice, 1890s
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Oldest Working Car for sale, 1884
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Derringer Cycle
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'A Switchback Railway' by R.W. Paul, 1898
Future Dictates of Fashion, 1893
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
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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
gorgeous. so lovely. thank you for posting. warmed my heart. xo
We were just in Venice in Jan for two days. Cold but clear with some mist. Less busy than in Sept. when we were there also. In the summer I run my fingers across bare brick and it crumbles. The buildings are standing – barely – in most part due to their being able to lean on each other.
The details of the stone are slowly being eroded from fumes and particulates from nearby factories and also from the diesel used by the boats big and small.
We stayed at the Danieli on the quay. Best rates in January! From the roof top restaurant there are great views across the lagoon and down the boardwalk.
I love to get the sea bass that has a unique salt water taste.
George Clooney’s picture on a billboard hiding the renovations on the building opposite the Doge’s Palace was unnerving. The black soot there was debilitating the marble. The other side of St. Marks received a cleaning and so has the Palace.
It is wonderful to get lost in the warren of alleys. There are so many architectural treasures, statues, carvings, and paintings in the churches and in the palace.
It is magical and you have to go in different seasons to catch the nuances. Rain, snow and fog make it ethereal. It has a loneliness about it when the crowds diminish.