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AMSTERDAM: LATE 19TH-CENTURY LIFE

📒 by Sosanni V1 min read
Black and white (sepia) 1890s photograph of a foggy misty day on the side of an Amsterdam canal, with a row of housing buildings built onto the edge of the canal. A bridge in the distance.
Het Kolkje and Oudezijds Achterburgwal in Amsterdam 1894 1898 George Hendrik Breitner, Amsterdam

They lived embraced by the fog, the musty canal, the damp and hope.

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Sosanni V

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