Street of the shoes, a glimpse of modern Athens, Greece – Historic Photo Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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A window into the past: Street of the shoes, a glimpse of modern Athens, Greece, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Street of the shoes, a glimpse of modern Athens, Greece
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Athens in about 1901 was a city caught between its ancient monuments and a rapidly modernizing present, and this stereograph captures that tension at street level. The card's title, "Street of the Shoes," points to a commercial strip lined with shops, a glimpse of everyday trade rather than a famous landmark. Issued by the H.C. White Company, a firm known for stereo views of travel destinations, the card was made for viewers who wanted to see distant places through a stereoscope. Its caption, though unverified, places the business activity in Athens in 1901.
| Created / published | c1901. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Subjects | Stereo copyrighted by H.C. White Co. No. 4144. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Business est.--Gr.--Athens--1901; Photog. I.; Shelf. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,333 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-140287 |
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