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The Largest Mill in the Orient (Postcard)
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When the Allatini Mills building was built in 1898, it was considered the largest industrial building in the “Orient” (then the catch-all term for the non-European world east of Europe). The first…

Contributor:

Vitaliano Poselli

Places:

Salonica, Ottoman Empire (Thessaloniki, Greece)

Date:

ca. 1900–1912

Subjects:

Jewish identity, Sephardi, Christian-Jewish relations, Cities, Labor, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture
Large symmetrical, rectangular building next to body of water.
Map of the City of Venice, ca. 1729
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This eighteenth-century map of Venice includes the ghetto within which the city’s Jews were required to live from 1516 until Napoleon’s conquest of the Republic of Venice in 1797. The Venice ghetto…

Contributor:

Lodovico Furlanetto

Places:

Venice, Venice (Venice, Italy)

Date:

ca. 1729

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish quarters, Christian-Jewish relations, Print, Architecture

Categories:

Cartooning & graphic art, Architecture
Small image of topographical cityscape.