#pre-wwi

[victusinveritas]

Autochrome by Alfonse Van Besten, Belgium, 1912.

[vikkicomics]

Austerlitz introducing himself in Ottaway vol 2.

[todaysdocument]

On 7/30/1916, German agents sabotaged a shipment of munitions held at Black Tom near Jersey City [detail]. 1,000 tons of munitions bound for Russia, including 50 tons of TNT, were destroyed in explosions that could be felt as far away as Philadelphia. 

File Unit: Enemy Activities - Destruction by Enemy in U.S., 1917 - 1918

Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952

Image description: Photograph of shipping barges moored at piers, showing various degrees of destruction. The barges closest to the camera are somewhat damaged; further into the distance the barges are more and more destroyed.

[vanishingsydney]

Classic Edwardian-era dated shop-top. Now most likely a brothel, sweat shop, or grow room. Newtown.

[atributetofather]

Lucian Bernhard: Konkurrenzfliegen der ersten Aviatiker, 1909. Lithographie, 115,8 x

[vanishingsydney]

Some distinctive brick work on the St. Mary's church school (1912). Erskineville.

[vanishingsydney]

The old Westgate Post Office (1913). Saved from dereliction about a decade ago, and converted into ten artists studio's and creative spaces. Named after a long-gone nearby toll gate on the Great Western Highway from the CBD to the Inner West, then on to the Outer West and the Blue Mountains and beyond. Annandale.

[vanishingsydney]

Rare surviving large Federation-style double deck duplex. Now used as a boarding house. Enmore.