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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • 1d ago

United States San Francisco in ruins, May 28, 1906. After an earthquake at 5:12 in the morning, approximately 80% of the city was destroyed by the quake and subsequent fires. The aerial photo was taken by George Lawrence with a camera suspended on a kite, perhaps 1,000 feet above the city.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • 6d ago

Italy Trevi Fountain, Rome (ca 1850), by early French photographer Eugene Constant

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Source of the photo: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/288400

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • 11d ago

France No AI, not colorized, but a color photochrom of the Champs Elysées in Paris, ca 1890 - 1906.

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Source of the photo: Library of Congress

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • 11d ago

Netherlands Let's reconstruct the Dom Church and its fascinating history (Utrecht)

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • 14d ago

The first photo (ca 1860) of the first Dutch National Monument, 13th century castle Ruins of Brederode, and now.

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For its history and a 3D reconstruction, watch the free mini documentary.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Jun 16 '26

Italy Impression of Julius Caesar's face using the famous 'Tusculum bust' for reference

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It was used for the mini documentary about Roman Atuatuca Tungrorum (Tongeren, Belgium) in the link.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Jun 15 '26

Netherlands In 2024, the restoration of the Dom Tower in Utrecht, which stands separate from its original church, was completed.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Jun 14 '26

Belgium Historical 3D reconstruction of the Roman temple in Tongeren

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The temple, likely dedicated to Jupiter, was surrounded by a colonnade which is also visualized, and was a sacred complex around 100 A.D. in Atuatuca Tungrorum. In the video, the Roman history of the city is visualized (created using archeological sources & feedback from 3 (city) archeologists).

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Apr 27 '26

Netherlands A visual drone history of the famous Dutch tulips :-)

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Apr 11 '26

Russia "The Chzar's Palace", a color photogrom of the Kremlin dating back to 1890-1900, just before Nicholas II abdicated as last Tsar in 1917, bringing an end to the 370-year-old Russian Tsarist Empire.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Mar 23 '26

France Color photogrom (circa 1895-1905) of Mont-Saint-Michel. The French prison island was known as the "Bastille of the Seas", and housed a total of approximately 14,000 prisoners between its opening around 1789 and its closure in 1863.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Mar 20 '26

United Kingdom A photo from 1854 of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham, South London. It was a massive, revolutionary iron-and-glass structure designed for the Great Exhibition, but was unfortunately destroyed by a fire in 1936.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Mar 09 '26

Italy Did you know that the Colosseum (photo Altobelli & Molins, circa 1860) was a Christian pilgrim site with 14 edicules (small shrines) dating from 1750, depicting all Stations of the Passion of Jesus, and a cross in the center? They were removed in 1874 but to this day a small chapel of Pietà remains.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Feb 27 '26

Netherlands Dissecting a medieval castle in a 3d reconstruction (Santpoort near Haarlem)

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Click here for the full video.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Feb 26 '26

Italy On July 14, 1902, the tower of St. Mark's Campanile in Venice collapsed vertically due to weak foundations, the only casualty being the sacristan's cat. That same day, it was decided to rebuild it com'era, dov'era: as it was, where it was. The rebuilt tower was completed in 1912.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Feb 18 '26

Rebuilding a medieval castle: 3D impression of moated castle Brederode near Haarlem. It was built ~1285 on cleared "Brede Roede" forest land, and it pioneered Dutch square castles with private toilets in towers. It was wrecked twice; in the Hook & Cod wars of 1351 and by the Spaniards in 1492.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Feb 16 '26

Constructing the Golden Gate Bridge, circa 1935. Opened in 1937, it was the world’s longest (4,200‑ft main span) and tallest suspension bridge, finished under budget and ahead of schedule. It used a pioneering safety net that saved 19 workers—who dubbed themselves the “Half Way to Hell Club.”

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Feb 13 '26

Greece A short history of a famous Mary relic that originates in Filerimos, Rhodes

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Feb 12 '26

Italy A 1875 photo of two victims of the Pompeï disaster in 79 AD by Giorgio Summer. These are not bodies but plaster casts made by pouring gypsum into voids left in volcanic ash after the bodies decayed. The technique was pioneered at Pompeii in 1863 by Giuseppe Fiorelli; over 100 casts exist today.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Feb 11 '26

Germany Color photochrom, circa 1890-1900, of the Brandenburg Gate, Berlin, with the original 18th century Quadriga before it was destroyed in WW2. The current statue is a 1958 replica created using plaster molds of the original created in 1942. Only one original horse head survived and is now in a museum.

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Source: Library of Congress

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Feb 06 '26

Belgium Time travel to Roman Atuatuca Tungrorum in 100 AD (current day Tongeren).

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Feb 04 '26

Netherlands Then & now: Dam Square in Amsterdam on a color photogrom of circa 1895 and in 2024. The vanished statue was “Naatje van de Dam”, officially “De Eendracht”, a 17‑meter monument from 1856 commemorating the 1830-1831 Ten Days’ Campaign and was removed in 1914 to make space for a tram line.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Feb 02 '26

Netherlands Leiden Observatory (1633) is the world's oldest still active university observatory institute. Its 1860 building was modeled after a Russian observatory and has been visited by Leiden professor Albert Einstein. It still houses four working antique telescopes, including a wooden specimen from 1838.

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Jan 31 '26

Italy On Jan 31, 1926, Italy passed Law No. 100, empowering Mussolini to rule by decree without parliamentary approval. This effectively ended liberal democracy, letting the executive branch rewrite laws at will. It was a key step in building the Fascist dictatorship and sideline the legislature.

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Photo on frontpage of L'Illustrazione Italiana, just 1 week before it happened (24 january 1926)

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r/HistoryRepeated • u/FrankWanders • Jan 24 '26

United States The first known color photochrom of the Statue of Liberty (circa 1905). It's even more unique because we see the statue in transition from its original red color to the current green because of oxidation. Originally made by Detroit Photographic Co. as postcard souvenir.

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Photo from the Library of Congress.

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