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The Collective Picture

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Who doesn't love a good picture and a great story. This photo and history haven displays archives images and uses them to look at the past in relation to the world of today. This space is designed to encourage viewers to think about history and current events. Examining such diverse areas of interest as technology, fashion and politics, to name but a few. Or you can just look at the pretty pictures.

• Added on: Apr 17th, 2009
• Country: Canada
• Language: English

• Author: benzer
• Listed in: Cultural Photo Blogs
• Tags: Culture stories photographs history images social history

Recent Posts

• Silent Film

  Posted on Saturday November 14th, 2009 at 13:03 in Film, quo vadis, silent movie, nosferatu, the cheat, 1900's, josie's coney island nightmare, just mother, the curse of the dessert, the last days of pompeii, the saint and the singer

  This past Halloween I was lucky enough to see the silent film Nosferatu accompanied by the Vancouver Orchestra. The scenes of coffins, death and creatures stacking in the night made me jump as music filled the room. The tension of some of the eerier ...

• Back To School

  Posted on Friday September 11th, 2009 at 00:16 in education, philippines, schools, 1800's, muslim school, 1900's, class photo, belubula school, christian mission school, eastpoint school, miss barlleg, native american school

  With summer coming quickly to a close and labour day having skipped by we find ourselves at the beginning of the school year. As children march back to the daily grind parents, teachers and yes even politicians swarm over issues effecting the educati...

• The Urban Forest: City Parks Around the World

  Posted on Saturday August 29th, 2009 at 22:55 in Central Park, parks, cities, stanley park, battery park, golden gate park, hyde park, 1800's, 1900's, mount royal park

  Having lived in apartments for the past several years has been an adjustment. I grew up with a backyard and being limited to my one bedroom apartment and small deck is quite a difference  from the sprawling lawns of suburbia. What makes city apartme...

• The Great Depression & The Current Recession: Decline & Reform.

  Posted on Saturday August 15th, 2009 at 16:35 in reform, 1930's, recession, wpa, social welfare, great depression, ccc, social policy, credit crisis, economic collapse, hooverville, bread lines

  Times of economic uncertainty provide the fertile ground for change. When stability abounds we tend to ignore the potential for collapse and thrive in states of elated compliance. When the structures that we have come to rely on become undependable m...

• The World Fair: Chicago 1893

  Posted on Monday August 10th, 2009 at 14:55 in american, chicago, archives, ferris wheel, white city, 1800's, world fair, court of honor

  The architecture of World Fairs have always been of particular interest to me and my favorite has always been Chicago in 1893 or the World’s Columbian Exposition. The ‘White City’ has an ethereal beauty to it unlike anything that I have stu...

• B.C. Day

  Posted on Saturday August 1st, 2009 at 20:52 in Canada, photographs, history, british columbia, kelowna, victoria, settlers, pioneers, mounted police, public holiday, 1800's, b.c. day

  With a long weekend in full swing excitement abounds over having three days off. Why do we get the weekday closest to August 1st off? and what exactly, beyond being a holiday, does it mean? It is not that old of a holiday, to my surprise it was first...

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