The Old World as a stage for “International Reset”? (Four 19th Century Photographic Collections)

Welcome back. Today, we will be getting back into the Old World series of videos, focusing on four main photographic albums which I have never shared with you before. Each one will be dealing with a different location, yet all have strikingly similar architecture, photographed at a time (before the year 1900) when these resemblances should be anything but routine.

Furthermore, at the core of these landscapes are the ruins; heavily impacted fortifications which appear ancient, even at the time of the first photographs.

Our subjects today will include Johnstown, Pennsylvania (after The Flood of 1889), The Washington Monument Foundations, as well as some of the earliest photographs of Palestine, and a striking collection labeled as the First Photographs of Pakistan. All images will be dated to the year 1889 or earlier, and most will have their original labels included. Let me know which images stand out to you the most, and enjoy!






Topics discussed today:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infrastructure
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_photography
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnstown_Flood
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Fork_Dam
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Monument
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photochrom
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Palestine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Pakistan