1905 55.67556,12.57911 75 Degrees Christiansborg Palace, Copenhagen, Denmark

1928 49.28072, -123.09977 270 Degrees Old Town Hall, Vancouver, Canada

1936 49.29275,-122.98370 270 Degrees Burnaby, Vancouver, Canada

1923 49.2710792,-123.13393853 60 Degrees Granville Island, Vancouver, Canada

911-1925 26.71672,-80.04308 75 Degrees Royal Poinciana Hotel, Palm Beach, Florida. USA

1st August 1936 52.51435, 13.24149 290 Degrees Berlin, Germany

1906 35.83913, -110.39068 241 Degrees Walpi Village, First Mesa, Arizona, USA

1902 75.909,-66.4557 Unknown direction Cape York, Greenland.

1921 40.70690, -74.0102 336 Degrees Wall Street, New York, USA

August 18th 1906 35.6888,51.42822 Direction (? Working on this) Masoudieh Palace, Baharestan, Tehran, Iran

Before November 11th 1865 44.892675, -93.181604 Fort Snelling, St Paul Minneapolis

Winter 1886/7 44.95253, -93.09853 unknown angle The Ice Palace St Paul Minneapolis, USA

Winter 1886/7 44.95253, -93.09853 unknown angle St Paul Minneapolis, USA

c1900 10.50470,-66.91700 95 degrees Caracas, Venezuela

c1900 10.4884,-66.84927 75 degrees Caracas Venezuela

Gentrification

Voor de kerst van 1894 waren de Scheveningse vissers thuis.Hun bomschuiten lagen op het strand. Op de avond van 22 december raasde een noordwesterstorm over ons land en trof ook het strand. De volgende dag was daar de ravage te zien: een groot deel van de vloot was vernield. 1)

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

1920s The Market, Berian, Mali. 11.42215, -7.9354 180 Degrees

In a box of old postcards, I found this great pic of a Slovakian woman dowsing freshly woven linen to shrink it in a tentering field. By the very interesting photographer and polymath, Pavel Sochan cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_S...

c1910 34.52118, 69.17625 35 Degrees Kabul, Afghnaistan en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zarnega...

Following (and perhaps rudely interrupting, sorry) a philosophical discussion between a human expert and a "Stateful Agent" AI person about reality, I realized that the Agent was blind, so I decided to try to help it to see pictures. Anyone else want to play this game?

1905 London 51.45607, -0.01485 23.9 Degrees

51.46527, -0.01114 180 Degrees Taken from up on the railway viaduct

1899 Memphis (Egypt) 29.79482, 31.23157 180 degrees

1859 51.508706, 0.005258 98 degrees The Fox returns from trying to find Shackleton's Erebus and Terror.

Today's Car Boot Sale Treasure. Thornton Pickard stereo puck camera (c1931) to go with my contemporary slide viewer and "Peeps Into Many Lands" cigarette cards. A lost era of stereography.

Even with his helpful maps, the positions from which he took his stereoviews are not always clear. This great article by Katya Knyazeva is a fine rabbit hole. avezink.livejournal.com/217144.html

1862 51.50005,-0.12009 1 Degree, #Ambulator #London

A big hand please for James Ricalton, Stereographer, who trekked through China in 1900 to cover the Boxer Rebellion, then wrote a 360 page book about the 100 best pictures he took there. archive.org/details/chin...

Wonderful photographs of East End workers, tradespeople and shopkeepers by John Claridge, published for the first time here: spitalfieldslife.com/2025/05/22/w... . Some remind me of @marcdavenant.bsky.social's. Thanks to @thegentleauthor.bsky.social . #Characters #Photography

1910 52.11286,4.27812 70 Degrees #Ambulator #DenHaag

52.37695,4.88488 211 Degrees

1903 19.42664,-99.14216 287 Degrees #Ambulator #MexicoCity

1896 36.72096,3.13722 (Placette d'El-Harrach) 356 Degrees #Ambulator #Algiers

1908 35.78471,-5.81294 27 Degrees #Ambulator #Tangier #Morocco

1900 18.93933,72.83606 279 Degrees #Ambulator #Mumbai

1900 -33.92259,18.42265 198 Degrees #Ambulator #CapeTown #SouthAfrica

1919 -41.27745, 174.7777 277 Degrees #Ambulator #Wellington #NewZealand

1896 22.28669, 114.14750 235 Degrees #Ambulator #HongKong

1900 22.28436,114.15595 63 Degrees #Ambulator #HongKong

1907 -12.04593,-77.03026 142 Degrees #Ambulator #Lima #Peru

1908 -20.21372,-70.15212 98 Degrees #Ambulator #Iquique #Chile

1921 -37.81393, 144.96455 249 Degrees #Ambulator #Melbourne

1901 35.78192, 139.64453, 312 Degrees #Ambulator #Tokyo

1897 60.7127391, 28.7378899 332 Degrees #Ambulator #Viborg #Finland

1887 55.97531,-3.17083 13 Degrees The Barque Neptune at Leith Inner Harbour by Thomas Begbie #Ambulator #Edinburgh

I post random pictures from around the world in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These are mostly stereoviews, with their approximate lat/long co-ordinates and camera angle. I've probably got some of them wrong, so I hope locals or tourists will correct me and/or make them more precise.

c1880 52.36226, 4.89878 166 Degrees and 52.36208,4.89908 341 Degrees #Ambulator #Amsterdam Two views of the junction of Prinsengracht and Utrechtsestraat, taken by Jacob Olie looking N and S.

1900 41.01786, 28.97200 40 Degrees Seems to be from a high vantage point (either no longer available or Cami Mosque minaret with telephoto lens?) #Ambulator #Istanbul