Historical Planet
Thursday, 10 December 2015
The Reschen Lake in southern Tyrol, Italy which covers the sunken village of Graun which was the site of the Italian Sailing Championship in 1953
Italy's Fausto Coppi finishing the seventeenth lap of the bicycle race across Italy, on June 5, 1952.
The family visited Highland Castle, Scotland in 1920 and saw some of the estate's residents
In October 1919 Tottenham Court Road at the junction with Oxford Street and Charing Cross Road, London. The Court Playhouse is on the right, and the Underground station in front
A boy and adult approaching a ticket seller's booth for the ornate Algerian Theatre in 1896
Visit were spoilt for choice when it came to bar and restaurant choices to entertain themselves with after a swim (photo taken in 1900)
Saturday, 5 December 2015
Hammersmith Broadway with the underground station on the right and elaborate railings at the entrance to public conveniences in the centre, in 1910
British tourists pose in front of the Sphinx in Giza, Egypt in fashionable clothing from the 1880s
Bathing machines shelter shy holidaymakers from prying eyes at St-Leonards-on-Sea, East Sussex, in 1895
Jeddah in 70's
The Enemy, 1944. With the outbreak of world war two, photojournalism was enlisted in defence of Mother Russia.
Tales of the Sea, 1976. Lithuanian photographer Vitaly Butyrin draws on a rich Soviet history with his often surreal photo-montages.
Perfume No8, 1958. This picture, the eighth in a series on perfume, shows Alexander Khlebnikov’s move into fashion and advertising photography in the 1950s.
Images from the 1873 book The Wonderland of the Antipodes and other sketches of travel in the North Island of in New Zealand
Italian driver Alberto Ascari steers his Lancia at the finish line of the 1000 Miles race in Rome in 1954
A stall holder sells live crabs at a market in an Italian fishing town, circa 1950
The family interact with locals selling items on market stalls outside an Egyptian ruin in 1913
The crumbling ruins of Karnak, Egypt in 1913. The Karnak Temple Complex, commonly known as Karnak, comprises a vast mix of decayed temples, chapels, pylons, and other buildings
In the days before tourists were banned from climbing the pyramids, a group pf Egyptians clambering up the rock slabs in 1910's
Else relaxes by the Nile in Luxor reading a book on December 23, 1913
Victorian tourists finish a tour of a salt mine in Obersalzberg, Berchtesgaden, on a special train
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