Welcome back to the ‘world of the soul’. This week, too, we have arranged for you, history lovers, a fascinating gallery focusing on one theme: the world one hundred and fifty years ago.
In those days, on the one hand the world was in a momentum of development and modernization from all spheres, and on the other hand it was also full of bloody wars like the one between Prussia and France.
The field of photography began to develop only a few decades earlier, but photographers began to appear everywhere and even in distant lands, documenting moments and phenomena for future generations. Delegations of diplomats and scientists also began touring the world and learning more about distant cultures.
All the pictures you see here were taken in the years 1871-1872, one hundred and fifty years ago. We tried to diversify with documentation of different types and places, and as usual – provide a short and exhaustive description of each image.
Local traders in the market. Samarkand, Uzbekistan
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A Jew who made a living from jewelry. Kamnitz-Podolsk (now in Ukraine)
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Straight from Hechtkopf’s paintings: Peasants eat their hearts out. Simbirsk Oblast, Russian Empire
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Residents sail in a bamboo boat. Formosa (a short-lived kingdom in Taiwan)
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Results of a huge fire that broke out in the city of Boston, Massachusetts. To this day, it is considered one of the most destructive in the United States
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Fire in Moscow, Russia. Pay attention to the carts carrying water barrels
The eruption of the powerful volcano Vesuvius near Naples, Italy. Its first eruption, in 79 AD, obscured two Roman cities (discovered later in their entirety underground)
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The remnants of lava from the eruption of the volcano Vesuvius. Naples, Italy
‘Fishing party’. Formosa (a short-lived kingdom in Taiwan)
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A delegation from Austria to the North Pole, in a group photo in Melville Bay, Greenland
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Ontario’s first parliament in Canada. Taken using the ‘complex photography’ method (combining several images into one image) developed at the time
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A wedding photo at the castle of Robert Thompson Crouchy, a wealthy British industrialist whose daughter got married
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A family of Native Americans (‘Indians’) near a grass tent. Idaho, USA
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In Neot Desha: Politicians photographed with Eyal Kora, during a vacation in Tahlhof, Austria
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A man is photographed next to a huge lump of gold he found, weighing about 200 kg
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Typical tooth extraction: The dentist and his assistant give in the head
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The first woman to try to vote in the election, which was then allowed only to men, was removed from the ballot box and thrown to the ground by police. UK
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Dina Snitcher, a man raised by wolves in the jungles of India, discovered there in 1872
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Tartar soldiers. The Tartars conquered China in 1644 and have since been considered a barbaric people who have wreaked havoc on the country
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A girl plays ‘Mother in the laundry room’. Cain, New Hampshire, USA
Construction of a northwest railway station. Vienna, Austria
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New train locomotive, stationed outside Baldwin Locomotive Factory in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
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Governor of Nemosi District in Fiji State, and alongside him his personal servant
Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, visits with his entourage the pyramids in Egypt
A family of Native Americans (‘Indians’) near a grass tent. Idaho, USA
The 32nd Emperor of Japan, Motsuhito
The team in charge of the great Japanese exhibition ‘Yoshima Saidou’, which was also visited by Emperor Motsuhito
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Members of a Japanese delegation, who came to America to maintain diplomatic and technological relations. San Francisco, California, USA
George V (later King of Britain), cousin Nicholas II (later Russian Tsar), and Edward VII (later King of Britain) as children
A classroom in a school. New England Area, USA
Indigenous people go on a hunting trip. Formosa (a short-lived kingdom in Taiwan)
Artillery Park – a hill in Montmartre, Paris, where heavy machine guns were concentrated in the Prussian-French War
Prussian forces in the Place de la Concorde in Paris after invading the city
After the victory over France: Prussian forces march in Paris
A victory gate in Frankfurt, Germany, after the Prussians defeated France.
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The huge tower with the statue of Napoleon III, minutes before its overthrow. Paris France
Vendome Square after the fall of the huge tower with a statue of Napoleon. Paris France
Statue of Napoleon in the square Vendome after its overthrow. Paris France