Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows I love history, so when I find one of those extraordinary moments in time captured beautifully in photography I get excited about it. The shot above shows library books carried through the streets of Paris after the flood of the River Seine in 1910. More shots follow;
The week of flooding cost the country an estimated 400 million francs, ($1.5 billion US today) – Wikipedia
whyphotograph says
wonderful +Danie, thanks for sharing them
danielmeadows says
Thanks, they’re a slight departure from my usual retouch related posts but I was really quite enamoured with these!
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