I'm doing to dump a bunch of photos of 19th/early 20th century cities and towns in Asia/Africa before they were Westernized/Modernized.
Post other kinds of old photos if you want.
Delhi after the 1858 rebellion.
Amritsar, less than a decade after the fall of the Sikh Empire.
Cairo under the Ali Khedivate.
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Ottoman Aleppo.
Qajar Kashan.
I wish I had friends.
Tokyo
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I bump. I think this is amazing. Original impressions from 150 years ago make my dick go hard.
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I'll post a few more then.
This is some weird slave-hunting tribe in Nias, off the coast of Sumatra. I'm not sure of the year.
Kumasi, in Ghana, after the town's sacking.
Some stuff from modern Uzbekistan
Mali
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that stone mound in the back for this weird stone jumping sport they do, still practiced today
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WcnTeeU3VM
These next three are a panorama
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care to elaborate?
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>>1098456
Cool. I love how they still have the traditional houses instead of demolishing them like everywhere else.
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from a layman's perspective, could you say that is japan in it's "original" state?
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they jump 2 meter stones for fun
Another part of the city.
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By 1897 Japan was pretty heavily modernized, that street is I guess is just from a more 'traditional' part of the city. I'd assume it's a lot like what earlier 19th or 18th century places might have looked like.
Felice Beato's photos from the 1860s are probably the most 'authentic', since they mostly pe-date the Meiji period.
>>1098435
>great city of samarkand
>pretty cool bro in civ5
have they been wrecked by some war in 1871?
That's just about everything.
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Central Asia was kind of shitty after the Silk Road lost importance. Those dried-brick structures tend to just fall apart if they aren't maintained properly.
Most of those buildings have been restored or rebuilt now.
Ol' Hickory, circa 1845
