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Nahalat Binyamin Street, Tel Aviv
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Nahalat Binyamin Street was the longest road in the city during Tel Aviv’s earliest years. In the 1920s, it was paved and became Tel Aviv’s main commercial street. Over the next few decades, new…

Contributor:

Rudi Weissenstein

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Tel Aviv, Israel

Date:

1954

Subjects:

Photography, Cities, Modernity, Class, Architecture

Categories:

Photography, Architecture
Aerial photograph of city intersection with some cars, bicycles, and people.
Fontainebleau Hotel, Miami Beach, Florida. Over Pool to Hotel. Florida, Miami Beach
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The hotels designed by Morris Lapidus in the 1950s and 1960s, including the Fontainebleau, were pioneers of what came to be known as “Miami Modern” (MiMo), the signature style of resort hotels in…

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Morris Lapidus

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Date:

1955

Subjects:

Photography, Cities, Modernity, Class, Economic life, Architecture

Categories:

Photography, Architecture
Photograph of curved exterior of a hotel with pool and fountain in the middle.
Sandor Schmidl Mausoleum (Jewish Cemetery, Budapest)
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The elaborate art-nouveau tomb of the wealthy Schmidl family in the Rákoskeresztúr Jewish cemetery in Budapest is made of ceramic tile made by the Zsolnay factory, famous for its art-nouveau ceramics…

Contributor:

Béla Latja, Ödön Lechner

Places:

Budapest, Austro-Hungarian Empire (Budapest, Hungary)

Date:

1903

Subjects:

Cities, Jewish identity, Modernity, Class, Gravestones & tombs, Architecture

Categories:

Architecture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs
Photograph of gated door outside, surrounded by large archway and decorative floral motifs.