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Vladimir Nabokov, 6th year of exile
A photograph of the young Vladimir Nabokov taken at KaDeWe, Berlin's department store, during his 6th year of exile, as the writer's handwritten caption indicates.
Tags: chr_1920s, geo_berlin, geo_germany, nabokov, russian_emigres
Sites of Russian Berlin in the 1920s
major sites of the Russian emigre community in the 1920s Berlin (embassies, relief agencies, banks, restaurants, as well as publishing houses, bookstores, and libraries)
Tags: chr_1920s, everyday_space, geo_berlin, geo_germany, map, russian_emigres, sites
Sites of Berlin in the 1920s
In the early 1920s, Berlin was home to almost 360 000 Russian emigres. This map shows where some of the most prominent members of the Russian Berlin community lived during their stay in the city, as well as the sites of Russian Berlin and Berlin…
Tags: chr_1908, chr_1920s, everyday_space, geo_berlin, geo_germany, map, russian_emigres, sites
Narrative Guide
This schematic representation of the narrative movement of Nabokov's "A Guide to Berlin" shows the temporal complexity of the narrative. Each block (color-coded by the location) represents a small textual segment, in which the time of action was…
Tags: chr_1920s, fiction, geo_berlin, geo-germany, map, mapping_literature, nabokov
Narrative "Score"
An interactive graph, or "score," of Nabokov's short story "A Guide to Berlin." The interactive "score" of Nabokov's "A guide to Berlin" shows the progression of the narrative verb by verb in each chapter (left to right, horizontal axis) and the…
Tags: chr_1920s, fiction, geo_berlin, map, mapping_literature, nabokov
Kneipe—a traditional Berlin pub—around 1925
Tags: chr_1920s, everyday_space, geo_berlin, geo_germany
Housing in Bahmashir
The houses in Braim were designed to house workers and aimed to appease the 'local' architecture and needs. These houses were much smaller than the ones in Bawarda and Braim, which housed 'foreigners'. The houses were designed as a series of row…
Tags: chr_1920s, company town, geo_abadan, geo_iran, housing, petroleum, workers
House in Braim
The houses in Braim were based on the Garden City ideal and the planner of the city, James M. Wilson. The are of Braim was also known as the 'bungalow area' and housed the British personnel and was located south-west of the refinery area. It was also…
Tags: chr_1920s, company town, geo_abadan, geo_iran, housing, petroleum
Griebens Reiseführer: Berlin, 1908
a map of tourist sites of Berlin ca. 1908: cultural, historical sites, imperial castles, palaces, museums, theaters Berlin Sightseeing, 1908 Tourist Guide to Berlin: "Sehenswürdigkeiten," Neuester Plan und Wegweiser von Berlin, Berlin W: Albert…
Tags: chr_1908, chr_1920s, geo_berlin, geo_germany, map, sites
Berlin Streetcar, 1925
Maximum-Drehgestellt Triebwagen der Berliner Strassenbahn-Betrieb GmbH, Umbau 1925