Ephemera: "Nursery Rhymes" Playing Cards
Ephemera Assemblyman: "Nursery Rhymes" Playing Cards.
Note: At the bottom of his post you'll find links for more cards.
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Architecture: Unrealised Projects for Moscow
Let's kick off the rerun series from... the beginning. The first Martin Klasch post ever posted:
(from 2005-05-02)
Schusev State Museum of Architecture Moscow: The Architecture of Moscow from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Unrealised projects
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Related post:
Vintage postcard: World exposition 1937
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Celebration: Four Years
I just realized that the Martin Klasch blog has turned four years old without any sort of celebration. So in honor of our more than 500.000 unique visitors we'll now begin a favorite post rerun series which we hereby name: These Are Some Of My Favorite Things. As they say: Stay tuned!
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Vintage Photo: Two Guys and a Tree
Today I found this old photo portraying a couple of guys in the Old Town of Stockholm. It was being displayed at the Nordiska muséet in a small exhibition about photography of everyday life and people. I'm sorry didn't note when or by whom it was taken but let's say (please do correct me) it's from about 1920-30. UPDATE: Josephzohn says "The old photo was taken by Gösta Spång in February 1924, 20 minutes past 3 in the afternoon!" which is confirmed here. Anyway, I immediately liked it, the composition, the tree and the guys. I also felt that the place was familiar, not that I knew exactly where but I knew I'd find it. With some luck I found it straight away (very close to where Josephzohn works, by the way).
The tiny tree was much larger but the houses in the background looked exactly the same (as they should in this part of Stockholm). I wanted to take a photo from more or less the same position but, damn it, they had put up a statue between the photographers position and the tree! Bastards. So I had to move in front of the statue to shoot it. As you can see in the larger compiled image of then and now the now-tree ended up a bit to the right of the then-tree. Either they moved it, perhaps it's even another tree planted later, or I simply should have moved a bit to the right. I had to manipulate today's photo to make everything but the tree fit, so the angle was somewhat off.
Tyska Stallplan (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia have this great (1,977 × 767 pixels) panoramic photo by Mats Halldin. Thanks. Click it!
More:
- Prästgatan No. 80 (Flickr)
- Mårten Trotzigs Gränd (Wikipedia)
- The relief plaque seen on the wall behind the guys says painter Carl Larsson was born at Prästgatan No. 78.
- "The most beautiful corner in/of Stockholm."
If you want to see the place on a 3D map click here and turn the view completely around or for the street view.
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Related post:
Photo: Now and Then
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Poster Art: Tigra
Poster - dated 1950 - for Belgian cigarette label (Royal) Tigra. From Vintage Poster.
Royal Tigre cigarette pack scans from the La Saga Cigarette site.
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Poster Art: Joop van den Berg
De Weg naar Rio (The Road to Rio, 1931)
Ephemera assemblyman: The Film Posters of Joop van den Berg
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Vintage Hotels: Gyllene Uttern
Gyllene Uttern - "The Golden Otter" - in southern Sweden was originally built as a roadside café in 1932 but the castle-like building was added within a few years. It is now mainly a hotel and restaurant. I haven't passed it in many years but it is supposed to look very much the same as when the German Nazi flag was up for German visitors (4th image).
Gyllene Uttern (Swedish Wikipedia)
Wild Strawberries
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Thanks to Johnny and SVT for image #1
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