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1500 Turn-Of-The-Century Pictures from Hungary Made Public

9/11/2015

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Invaluable Documentations 

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from Dick Eastman - June 11,2015

If your ancestors came from Hungary, you will undoubtedly be interested in a new online collection of turn-of-the-last-century Hungarian photographs. Pictures taken by the legendary German-born Hungarian photographer György Klösz (1844-1913) are now available online in the Fortepan digital photography archives after a total of 1500 photographs from his estate have been made available for unconditional usage by the Budapest Municipal Archives. . .

His invaluable documentations of turn-of-the-century Hungary are familiar from calendars, picture books and book illustrations and portray the palaces, squares, streetcar and cogwheel railway lines of a metropolis in the making, as well as the pavilons of the Millennial Exhibition and several palaces, salons and gardens across historic Hungary. The pictures were taken between approximately 1880 and 1903.

You can read more at http://goo.gl/MAu9RZ while the pictures are available with Hungarian descriptions at http://www.fortepan.hu/ and with English descriptions at http://www.fortepan.hu/?lang=en&img=53824.

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