Christmas pages of Shanghai newspapers in 1920

Posts from This Journal “1920” Tag

• Thinking of taking a rickshaw? Think again!

  We’ve all seen those visual comparisons demonstrating how much road space is required for people driving cars and how little space would be required…

• Recreating Saint Petersburg's nightlife in Constantinople (1920)

  "...At the edge of the city, almost outside of it, there was a suburb intersected by a long street called Şişli, and this is where a…

• “If you wanted to get on those ships you had to act quickly...” (1920)

  “...The saddest moment in all these evacuations comes when you have to decide which archives to bring. In Kiev, I had to burn most…