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1429, 1952 BURKINA FASO - At the market
1952 Burkina Faso - Women at the marketPosted on 31.01.2015, 11.10.2015There are more than 60 ethnic groups in Burkina Faso, so it is difficult to say to which belong people shown in the postcards. The...
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1953 JAPAN (Chūbu) - Fisherman and his son casting a net at Kajikazawa
Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period, influenced by painters as Sesshu and other styles of Chinese painting, Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849) is best known as author of the...
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1954 UNITED KINGDOM (Bermuda) - Whale Bay Beach
Located at the western end of Southampton parish and close to Sandy's parish, the Whale Bay Beach is one of the smallest beaches in Bermuda, calm and shallow. It owes its name from its proximity to the...
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1955 CAPE VERDE - Everyday life of Cape Verdeans
Cape Verde is a sociedade mestiça (as described in Portuguese), which means that it is home to mixed race people. The archipelago was uninhabited when the Portuguese discovered it in 1456. African...
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1956 UGANDA - The map and flag of the country
Bordered by Kenya, South Sudan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Tanzania, Uganda is a landlocked country in East Africa. The southern part of the country includes a substantial portion of...
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1957 UNITED STATES (Hawaii) - Byodo-In Temple in Oahu
Located on the island of Oahu, at the Valley of the Temples, The Byodo-In Temple is a shrine dedicated in August 1968 to commemorate 100-year anniversary of the first Japanese immigrants to Hawaii. The...
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1958 FRANCE (Alsace) - Munster cheese at the window of a farm in Vosges
Located in eastern France, near its border with Germany, Vosges are a range of low mountains which forms the western boundary of the Upper Rhine Plain. As in most mountain regions, the animal breeding,...
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1959 RUSSIA (Krasnodar Krai) - Sochi
Located on the Black Sea coast, near the Caucasus Mountains, not far from the border with Georgia / Abkhazia, Greater Sochi area sprawls for 145 kilometers and is Federation's largest resort city, and...
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0282, 1960 UZBEKISTAN (Xorazm) - Itchan Kala (UNESCO WHS)
Posted on 19.07.2012, 15.09.2015"It was now near midnight, and the silent, sleeping city lay bathed in a flood of glorious moonlight. The place was transformed. The flat mud roofs had turned to marble;...
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1908, 1961 MEXICO (Oaxaca) - At the market in Oaxaca
1908 At the market in Oaxaca - Baskets seller eating watermelonPosted on 20.09.2015, 15.10.2015Located on the foothills of the Sierra Madre, Oaxaca relies heavily on tourism, not least for the native...
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1962 UNITED STATES (California) - University of California, Santa Barbara
1962 University of California, Santa Barbara - Stork Tower The University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) is a public research university and one of the 10 campuses of the University of California...
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1963 MALTA - St. Paul's Cathedral in Mdina
Built between 1697 and 1702 in Baroque style on the site where governor Publius was reported to have met Saint Paul following his shipwreck off the Maltese coast, St. Paul's Cathedral dominates with...
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1964 UNITED KINGDOM (England) - Cambridge
Cambridge: 1. Queens' Mathematical Bridge; 2. King's College Chapel;3. St. John's College; 4. The ubiquitous bicycle.Located in East Anglia, on the River Cam, at about 80km north of London, Cambridge...
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1883-1887, 1965 NETHERLANDS (Sint Maarten) - Philipsburg
1883 Sint Maarten - Philipsburg - The peninsula that separates the Little Bay and Great BayPosted on 10.09.2015, and 17.10.2015Philipsburg is the main town and capital of Sint Maarten (a constituent...
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1966 UNITED STATES (Louisiana) - Second line jazz band in New Orleans
Some say that Jazz was born in 1895, when Buddy Bolden started his first band. Others say 1917, when Nick LaRocca and his Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded the first Jazz record, Livery Stable...
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1967 THAILAND (Bangkok) - Museum Siam in Bangkok
Located at Sanamchai road in Bangkok, the Museum Siam uses interactive storytelling with seven characters as intermediates. It focuses on the national identity of the people in Thailand which lets...
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1968 UNITED STATES (Alaska) - Ketchikan
Located on Revillagigedo Island, so named in 1793 by Captain George Vancouver, Ketchikan is the southeasternmost city in Alaska, and, even if has only 8,050 inhabitants, is the sixth-most populous...
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1969 MONACO - Monaco Grand Prix
The Monaco Grand Prix is a Formula One motor race held each year. Run since 1929, it is widely considered to be one of the most important and prestigious automobile races in the world and, alongside...
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1970 FRANCE (Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur) - Lake Serre-Ponçon
Lake Serre-Ponçon is second largest artificial lake in Europe. It gathers the waters of the Durance and the Ubaye rivers, flowing down through the Hautes-Alpes and the Alpes du Sud to the Rhône River....
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1971 ROMANIA (Constanţa) - Esmehan Sultan Mosque in Mangalia
Mangalia is the oldest continuously inhabited city on the present territory of Romania. A Greek colony named Callatis was founded here in the 6th century BC by the city of Heraclea Pontica. From the...
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