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Photos from Swedish cities, photographed between 1908 and 1923. The world before the arrival of modernity. Found here.

Café Eden, Smyrna (today Izmir, Turkey). 

Photo c. 1890 by Istanbul-based firm Sebah & Joaillier. The café was destroyed by a fire around 1900. 

Cafés like this were exclusive establishments, very different from the small coffee stalls popular in business areas of most cities of the Ottoman Empire. Large coffee houses like Café Eden “were top-of-the-line establishments, located in exclusive neighbourhoods of larger cities and offering posh appointments, instrumentalists, singers, and dancers, often in gardenlike surroundings with fountains and tree-shaded tables.” (+)

Roof details, Villa Rautendelein, Dresden. Built 1899-1901; destroyed 1945

Architects Schilling & Graebner

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The library inside the pilgrimage church Maria Heimsuchung in Klausen, Germany. The library dates from 1491 and forms part of one of the most important Gothic buildings in the Moselle Valley.

Photo source: + Wikipedia about the church (in German): +

This building in Wrocław, on Tamka island, was built when the city was part of Germany as a “club for patriotic culture” in 1906-07 and contained some exquisite turn-of-the century interiors designed by the architect Rudolf Zahn. 

The building is still at least partially preserved but seems to be more or less abandoned, and I haven’t been able to find any pictures of what the inside looks like today.

Pictures found here.

Room in the German pavilion (?) at the Turin exposition, 1911. 

Architect: Hermann Billing

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Krapperup Castle, Sweden. Photo by Mårten Sjöbeck 1935.

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Altamura Cathedral, Altamura (Italy)

Photos by Paolo Monti, +

Last stages of building the spire for the Nordhem school building in Gothenburg, Sweden. Cirka 1915-16.

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