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A van transporting bottles
A van of Schlossbrauerei (castle brewery) transporting bottles
A baker on a bike
A baker on a bike in the streets of Berlin, around 1937. Screenshots from Leo de Laforgue's film Berlin wie es war
Pipes in the snow
Pipes—"not yet lowered into the ground"—on Potsdamer Platz, 1935
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.
Berlin Streetcar, 1925
Maximum-Drehgestellt Triebwagen der Berliner Strassenbahn-Betrieb GmbH, Umbau 1925
"Berlin: Zug der großen Berliner Straßenbahn / 1924"
Berlin Streetcar (Grosse Berliner Strassenbahn), 1924
Berlin Streetcar, 1920
Hawa-Triebwagen (TF 20/29), Berliner Verkehrs-AG (BVG), 1920
"A Guide to Berlin" (1925) by Vladimir Nabokov
"A Guide to Berlin" is a short story written by Vladimir Nabokov in 1925 in Berlin. The first English translation was published inThe New Yorkeron March 1, 1976.
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…