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The Biggest Story? Housing: Throughout the U.S.S.R. History's Biggest Boom in Prefab Apartment Construction is in the Works
A reportage by Stay Wayman for Life magazine
“Representatives of a score of nationalities jostle each other in the narrow streets”
This photograph is part of the article“A New Jerusalem” published in the magazine “The Catholic World” - a monthly periodical of general literature and science. Lucy Garnet who is the author of the article, describes a seductive image of a…
Perspective of the New Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Project for the New Church of the Holy Sepulchre
1939-1940
Luigi Marangoni & Antonio Barluzzi, architects
1939-1940
Luigi Marangoni & Antonio Barluzzi, architects
Plan of the new Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Project for the New Church of the Holy Sepulchre
1939-1940
Luigi Marangoni & Antonio Barluzzi, architects
1939-1940
Luigi Marangoni & Antonio Barluzzi, architects
Nova Maris Caspii (1730s) Roads
This image shows the road networks featured in Abraham Maas's map "Nova Maris Caspii" as they radiate south along the Caspian from Astrakhan and into the Caucasus.
Nova Maris Caspii (1735) detail
1 map, hand colored; 47 x 57 cm.
Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Covers portions of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran.
Includes notes and illustrations. "Cum Priv. S. C. M."
Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Covers portions of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran.
Includes notes and illustrations. "Cum Priv. S. C. M."
Novissima Russiae tabula
This map of Muscovy by Isaac Maasa features both the Caspian and the Black Seas as the southern limit of Muscovy's territory.
