Mint - London [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.1 million people in 2024. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.1 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of the national government and parliament. London grew rapidly in the 19th century, becoming the world's largest city at the time. Since the 19th century the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire, which since 1965 has largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority.

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https://www.loc.gov/item/2014693203/

Royal Exchange, London [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

London is the capital and largest city of both England and the United Kingdom, with a population of 9.1 million people in 2024. Its wider metropolitan area is the largest in Western Europe, with a population of 15.1 million. London stands on the River Thames in southeast England, at the head of a 50-mile (80 km) tidal estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a major settlement for nearly 2,000 years. Its ancient core and financial centre, the City of London, was founded by the Romans as Londinium and has retained its medieval boundaries. The City of Westminster, to the west of the City of London, has been the centuries-long host of the national government and parliament. London grew rapidly in the 19th century, becoming the world's largest city at the time. Since the 19th century the name "London" has referred to the metropolis around the City of London, historically split between the counties of Middlesex, Essex, Surrey, Kent and Hertfordshire, which since 1965 has largely comprised the administrative area of Greater London, governed by 33 local authorities and the Greater London Authority.

#RoyalExchange #London #Photograph #Architecture #History #ClassicalArchitecture #Bustling #BainNewsService #news #photography
https://www.loc.gov/item/2014693200/

Post Office, New York [between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]
Bain News Service
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows City Hall Post Office and Courthouse (torn down in 1939), which was located at Broadway and Park Row, New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural harbors. The city comprises five boroughs, each coextensive with its respective county. It is the geographical and demographic center of both the Northeast megalopolis and the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the United States by both population and urban area. New York is a global center of finance and commerce, culture, technology, entertainment and media, academics and scientific output, the arts and fashion, and, as home to the headquarters of the United Nations, international diplomacy.

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https://www.loc.gov/item/2014690232/

James Thompson's 1858 gently curving terrace of grand Classical townhouses on Crown Circus in the west end of Glasgow.

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#architecturephotography #dowanhill

Numbers 7 and 8 Moray Place on the Southside of Glasgow. Built in 1859, they were designed by the one and only Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, and they are just pure class. I'm always struck by quite how contemporary the Moray Place Townhouses look. They might have been built 164 years ago, but their design still doesn't look dated. If only more modern buildings were quite so timeless!

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#morayplace #architecturephotography