Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009
In this post we are going to see several old machines lithographies of another book of the second half of XIX century brought to us by El Bibliomata.
I don’t know anything about most of them but they seem very curious.
For example, I have found a lithography of the first machine that was able of [...]
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Tuesday, December 1st, 2009
Let’s promote this week the contribution of El Bibliomata, a flickr user that shares illustrations and photographs of the collection from the Library of the Faculty of Law and Labor, University of Seville.
While we create real digital content a good start is to digitalised old works. The start, some old litographies of the conquest of [...]
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Monday, November 9th, 2009
Cats are an important part of Internet nowdays. But they always have played an important role on photography as you can see in these old photos.
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Monday, September 28th, 2009
After our previous trips to past:
Photochroms of Norway from 1890s to 1900s
Photochroms of Scotland from 1890 to 1900s
Today we are going to travel to the last years of 19th century in Belgium thanks to the Library of the US Congress (LOC).
Like postcards, the photochroms feature subjects that appeal to travelers, including landscapes, architecture, street scenes, [...]
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Friday, September 18th, 2009
Well my classical music knowledge is scarce, so I have decided to explore more on the subject of those classical melodies that we can hear from time to time but we aren’t able to identify them.
Last week I posted about Aranjuez and its concert.Today, after an stressing week, I need something relaxing…
Johann Pachelbel (1653-1706) was [...]
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Wednesday, September 2nd, 2009
We remember the World War II this week on September 1st , when Germans started the invasion of Poland in 1939 – 70th anniversary. I also wanted to post about aerial photographies and I have found the Trolley Missions from allies.
The “Trolley Missions” began a few days before the war actually ended, but only over [...]
The Dom Cathedral (Kölner Dom) in Cologne, Germany WWII, May 10th, 1945. "Trolley Missions"...Kölner Dom in Köln, Deutschland WWII, 10. Mai 1945. "Trolley-Missionen" Credit
David C. Foster
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Lost song by Ólafur Arnalds
Second and last post dedicated to the 95th anniversary of the start of this war that has not ended all wars, the first post was about The Great War by air and sea.
The flames of war were fanned with the assassination of Arch Duke Ferdinand in Sarajevo - June 28th of [...]
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