Pic of the Day - Old Yankee Stadium from the Woodlawn IRT Tracks

Great photo uploaded by the New York Transit Museum of the old Yankee Stadium as seen from the Woodlawn IRT.

Make sure to check it out the Google Street View, which was taken before the old stadium was demolished and the new stadium (on left) was completed.

Also check out  youtube videos of the demolition (sniff, sniff!).

Two Perspectives of Alexanderplatz, 30 yards and 76 years apart.

Alexanderplatz, 1903

Alexanderplatz, 1979

 
Few cities have reinvented themselves more over the past 100 years than Berlin. The comparison of these two images illustrate the dramatic nature of this transformation. Both photographs were taken from the same section of elevated U-bahn track over Rathausstraße (once called Königstraße), and both are looking more-or-less north-northeastward. (Click on images above to see page on SepiaTown).

Over 200 images of old Berlin on SepiaTown

....and more are on the way.

  Click on an image below to see its page on SepiaTown.

Alexanderplatz

Potsdamer Platz

Spittelmarkt

Leipziger Straße

Berlin Stock Exchange and the Friedrichsbrücke

Oranienplatz

Palast der Republik Youth Dance

Hitler Marching in Front of the Kroll Opera

The UK Suffrage Movement on SepiaTown

204 years ago today (1806) John Stuart Mill, the great English liberal philosopher, radical MP, early critic of slavery, colonialism, and the inequality of woman, was born in the Pentonville section of London.

143 years ago Mill celebrated his 61st birthday by introducing an amendment to the Reform Act of 1867 that granted woman the full voting rights of men.  It was the first time such a proposal had ever been made in Parliament. The amendment was rejected by a vote of 196 to 73.  Mill's heroic act not only created an onslaught of criticism and satirizing, it cost him his seat in parliament three years later.

It would take 61 more years (1928), and acres of broken glass, till the woman of the UK won the full voting rights of men.

Some images on SepiaTown documenting that struggle

 (click on image to see its page on SepiaTown)

Related Links:

More details of John Stuart Mill's support for woman's suffrage at charlespetzold.com
http://www.charlespetzold.com/blog/2009/02/1859-Books-John-Stuart-Mill-On-Liberty.html

John Stuart Mill's Quotes
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

John Stuart Mill Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill

'Woman Suffrage in the United Kingdom' Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_suffrage_in_the_United_Kingdom

'Women Social and Political Union (UK)' Wikipedia Article
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_Social_and_Political_Union

Grauman's Chinese Theater on SepiaTown

(click image to see it and others on SepiaTown)

83 years ago today Grauman's Chinese Theater opened in Hollywood California (May 18, 1927).

The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising on SepiaTown

67 years ago today the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising came to its tragic end and the Nazi's plot to deport and exterminate the remaining population of Warsaw's once vibrant Jewish community succeeded.

At the start of the Uprising in April 1943 roughly 63,000 Jews still remained in the ghetto.  By May 16th 13,000 of those had been killed (many burned alive in fires set by the SS) and the other 50,000 had been captured and shipped to concentration and extermination camps, most notably Treblinka.
 
Read more about it here...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warsaw_Ghetto_Uprising

See mapped Warsaw Ghetto and Uprising related images on SepiaTown...

(click on any image to see its page on the site)

 

Eugène Atget's Paris on SepiaTown

Eugène Atget, the great turn-of-the-century chronicler of Paris, is widely considered to be the first true modern photographer.

In 1898, at the advanced age of 41 (and with no former experience in the visual arts) he took up photography as a way to eke out a living by creating and selling straightforward depictions of city scenes and architecture for artists to use for reference. By the time he died in 1927, Atget had created over 10,000 images of the city and its inhabitants. 

Atget's work was discovered and heralded by later generations of artists, who recognized that his photographs were much more than simple “documents for artists” (which is how Atget regarded and described them throughout his life). 

We've uploaded to SepiaTown a small handful of Atget's photographs that the George Eastman house was good enough to share with the public via Flickr Commons. There's much more material where these came from, and we hope that many more of Atget's poetic images of old Paris will be brought to life in a new way as they are uploaded to SepiaTown.

Here's a sampling of Eugène Atget images on SepiaTown...
(click on image to go to its page on the site)

We're really excited about this then/now view because it is the first evidence we've seen of the Google Street View Tricycles handiwork.  In the coming months and years these tricycles will provide Google Street Views for new kinds of locations and the then/now view on SepiaTown will get more and more ubiquitous as a result.

Over 60 Images of The Cliff House and Environs on SepiaTown

The Cliff House Project and SepiaTown have teamed up to bring you over 60 images of Adolph Sutro’s magnificent creations and environs along San Francisco’s northwest coast, including: The Cliff House, Sutro Baths, Ocean Beach, and the landscaped vistas of Sutro Heights.

Below is a sampling of the images. Click on an image to go to its page on the site.

Tip: for road-less environs like these we recommend you check out the 'satellite' mode in the google map window. This will provide you with the best look at the exact position of the mapped vantage points.

 

New Feature --Then/Now View!

It's been a great 2 weeks since we launched, and we've been amazed by the positive response to the SepiaTown in what we consider to be its most simple and raw form.
We've been very busy behind the scenes though, mixing up new features in our laboratory, and we are very excited to announce a new feature that many of you have been requesting:

"Then/Now" view on the image results page using Google Streetview.

We think this will make your time travel experience even more cool, by giving you a way to see the differences and similarities between the images in our collection and the way they currently look on location.

One note: You may find as you search the site, images of places that are so remote or rural that there is no Streetview yet, or a Streetview that seems inaccurate. Google, like SepiaTown, is always updating and evolving its information, and we're sure these areas will soon be viewable.

Click on an image below to go to page, then click on the then/now link in the options menu over the map.

Sample Pages...

London

San Francisco

Paris

Amsterdam

And We're Off!

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Welcome to SepiaTown, your ticket from here to then.

Grab a seat, pick a point on the planet, pop open a packet of pictures, and take a spin on our little time machine.

We hope you enjoy the ride, and we hope that you'll come back often to see new images as they're uploaded, to upload your own, and to experience our added features as we roll them out in the coming weeks.

Sincerely,

Eric Lehnartz
Eric Warren
Jon Protas