Saturday, 5 December 2015

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