Sadly, a time machine is not available yet. However, if you’ve been wondering how life in Germany looked before WWI, don’t bother looking for uranium, just get the new photobook, “Germany Around 1900.” The historical pictures will take you there from the very first page!
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The book contains 800 vintage photos and postcards that were produced around 1900. It gives a peaceful and nostalgic glimpse into the lives of the bourgeois German people before the terrors of the WWI, and the turn of the 20th century seemed full of promise.
Of course, color photography was not available back then. “These historical photos are all rare examples of the photochrom process, a printing technique that allowed black-and-white photographs to be reproduced in color,” writes the publisher Taschen. The book with all these beautiful photos inside costs €150 and comes in English, French, and German.
Schwerin grand-ducal palace, Mecklenburg
Wernigerode Town Hall
Castle of Sigmaringen
The coast around Westerland
Bedroom, Neuschwanstein Castle, south of Munich
Heinstein Castle near Trechtingshausen / Butchers’ Guild Hall, Hildesheim
Bastei Bridge
Frederick Bridge and Berlin’s cathedral
Traditional German kitchen
