"Early 1900s Color photos of Paris" Topic

…give you a reference for your painting. Note the French soldiers' uniforms.

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Very interesting to see how things have changed, as well as have not changed. I was astounded at all the buildings at the Arc de Triumph. That was the Arc, wasn't it? If so, that whole neighborhood was razed in time for all the more recent photos I've seen.

Mike

Neat.

I said to MRS Bunkermeister it's weird for me to be looking at photos of Paris without Germans in them. But these are amazing photos and I am glad that I checked the link out.

It really shows how tall the Eiffel Tower is and why it was such a sight at the time. The night time photos were incredible.

Mike Bunkermeister Creek
Bunker Talk blog

Myxemail, it's the Porte Saint-Denis, one of the old city gates. Most cities had quite impressive monumental gates back in the 19th century, but urban development and their bottleneck-like action made sure most were either torn down or became free-standing relics.

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The area around the Eiffel tower had large patches of fields and vineyards around it well into the 20th century. It's hard to imagine that even in the days of Napoleon, the area west of the Louvre was still farms and fields and even woods, but became an urban area under Baron Haussmann's famous rebuilding of Paris.

Very nice pictures. It is easy to forget that those before us had as lovely a world as we.