Two people died. Thousands of documents going back nearly 1100 years were in rubble. Half a million photographs were housed there. Disasters such as the Cologne archive collapse demonstrate why it is important to digitize cultural records. Digital versions help protect and preserve a heritage.
So with thoughts of Cologne, here's a photochrom print circa 1910 of the Eisenbahn Bridge at Cologne from the Library of Congress collection. I haven't restored it yet; maybe someday.
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Extremely interesting. I mean, the whole blog. Stinking Cologne notwithstanding.
Me, I'm old Russian artist and author of two blogs:
fineoils.blogspot.com (Welcome!)
goolocalizations.blogspot.com (a zombie of my blog of 2005; killed by Google)
Ah! I love your photos! Keep up the wiki contributions, as wikipedia is where I learn roughly 98% percent of all of my intellectual knowledge. Too bad some of it's inaccurate. Sorry if that comment wasn't witty enough. =P
Witty enough to make me chuckle out loud. :) Thanks very much for reading and commenting. I'll do my best to keep you informed and entertained.
Hi.
You have an interesting blog!
Can you become my listerner , so i'll be your?
Fantastic Pictures, I love anything like this, anything historical. I love seeing picture comparisons of 'then' and 'now' too! Keep up good work!
Rob (robjweaver.blogspot.com)
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