In the 19th century one of my ancestors was a British diplomat in Constantinople. He had various souvenirs of his time there including a painting of a cityscape. A decade or two ago my father visited and tried to identify where it was. With some considerable help he did so, but the city was of course completely different so his desire to take a photo of the same place was not as interesting as he/we had hoped for
Apart from the sheer size of the Vienna-related postcard (sample), this is one of the main feelings I have when I visit the city I grew up in: it looks and feels very different compared to when I was living there. At the same time, it is quite something to behold such rapid, drastic changes within a few years (I left Vienna 15 years ago).
Please do. Did you see the video of General Allenby entering Jerusalem at the end of my article? An interesting project would be to use AI to match up the faces of the enlisted men in the video with their pre-deployment photos in the war archives - UK and Australia.
Then someone could add their names as floating indicators while they're marching in the video. I do not have the skills to do this but it would be an interesting project.
Huhum, "AI" is an interesting option, esp. with old photographs. Another reader suggested using it to investigate changes, if any, in coastlines or riverbeds.
In the 19th century one of my ancestors was a British diplomat in Constantinople. He had various souvenirs of his time there including a painting of a cityscape. A decade or two ago my father visited and tried to identify where it was. With some considerable help he did so, but the city was of course completely different so his desire to take a photo of the same place was not as interesting as he/we had hoped for
Cool, thanks for sharing.
Apart from the sheer size of the Vienna-related postcard (sample), this is one of the main feelings I have when I visit the city I grew up in: it looks and feels very different compared to when I was living there. At the same time, it is quite something to behold such rapid, drastic changes within a few years (I left Vienna 15 years ago).
Trolley cars and a dervish. Awesome
Perfect timing with my article: https://vicparkpetition.substack.com/p/through-the-lens-of-history-australian
Very awesome, thanks for letting me know; I'll cross-post this one tomorrow morning (local time).
As an aside, I'm now excessively tempted to throw in some postcards from Jerusalem…
Please do. Did you see the video of General Allenby entering Jerusalem at the end of my article? An interesting project would be to use AI to match up the faces of the enlisted men in the video with their pre-deployment photos in the war archives - UK and Australia.
Then someone could add their names as floating indicators while they're marching in the video. I do not have the skills to do this but it would be an interesting project.
Huhum, "AI" is an interesting option, esp. with old photographs. Another reader suggested using it to investigate changes, if any, in coastlines or riverbeds.