Have you ever wondered how the area you live in now looked like 30 or 50 years ago? If so, re.photos website, recently established by a group of people fascinated with then-and-now photography, has a database full of pictures that might help you out.
This database allows anyone, who shares the love for before and after pictures, to contribute their photographs and compare how a street, an area, or a famous landmark looks like now and the way it did way back in the past.
Scroll down below to see what traces urbanization, globalization, and global warming has left on our surroundings over time and visit the page to see more.
1 Rysstad, Norway, 1888 – 2013
2 Seljestadjuvet, Odda, Norway, 1887 – 2014
3 Martin Luther Statue, Dresden, Germany, 1958 – 2014
4 Quai Des Nations, Paris, France, 1900 – 2017
5 Pripyat, Ukraine, 1986 – 2016
6 Hofbräuhaus München, Germany, 1910 – 2017
7 Chaney Glacier, USA, 1911 – 2005
8 Corner Of Ratajczaka And Św. Marcin Streets, Poznań, Poland, 1945 – 2017
9 Moulin Rouge, Paris, France, 1900 – 2016
10 Engabreen Glacier, Norway, 1889 – 2010
Axel Lindahl’s picture of Engabreen from 1889 shows the foot of the glacier, where there was only ice, glacial gravel, water and bare mountainsides in a seemingly cold and hostile landscape. Now, more than 120 years later, the valley has become far more fertile. Birch forest, shore meadows, willow thickets and marshland have established themselves, while the glacier arm has retreated far back up the mountainside.
11 Reichstag, Germany, 1945 – 2012
12 Tour Eiffel, Paris, France, 1910 – 2016
13 Horse Cart And Steam Locomotive, Mont Saint-Michel, France, 1908 – 2016
14 Hammerfest, Norway, 1889 – 2004
15 Marcin Street, Poznań, Poland, 1945 – 2017
16 Osnabrück, Germany, 1904 – 2016
17 The Karlstor, Munich, Germany, 1946 – 2017
18 Paris, France, 1900 – 2017
19 Frauenkirche Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 1897 – 2010
20 Osnabrück Central Railway Station, Germany, 1965 – 2015
21 Nowomiejska Street, Łódź, Poland, 1874 – 2016
22 St-Gervais-Et-St-Protais, France, 1918 – 2017
23 The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 1900 – 2017
The Seine bank during the world’s fair of 1900.
Next to the Eiffel Tower, the “Globe Céleste” was one of the main attractions. It was a monumental heavenly globe of 45 meters in diameter, in which visitors could sit in a chair, while panoramas of the solar system were passed over. The ball was carried by 4 pillars, between which stairs and elevators allowed the visitors the ascent.
In the “Marerama”, the building with the four corner towers to the left, visitors were simulated to be on the deck of a ship with a panorama of the large Mediterranean ports.
The exhibition pavilions located directly on the shore on the left were dedicated to navigation, trade and navigation.
24 St. Matthew Evangelical Church, Łódź, Poland, 1937 – 2017
25 Szyperska Street, Poznań, Poland, 2006 – 2017
26 Palais Im Großen Garten Dresden, Germany, 1900 – 2005
27 Karlstor, Munich, Germany , 1910 – 2017
28 Osnabrück, Germany, 1953 – 2015
29 Kjeåsen Railway Bridge, Kjeåsen, Norway, 1927 – 2008
30 The Grinnell Glacier, Montana, USA, 1911 – 2008
The 1911 photo shows Grinnell Glacier poised at the top of the waterfalls in the foreground and joined with what is now called Salamander Glacier in the background. Grinnell described this wall of ice as being 1,000 feet high in 1887. As of 2008, that wall of ice is gone and Grinnell Glacier is not even visible in the contemporary photograph. Instead, it is behind the buff-colored ridge just above the waterfalls. Salamander Glacier lies along the Garden Wall below the ridgeline. This glacier is thinning in the middle so rapidly that it will probably be in two pieces within a few years. To the upper left is the small, rounded glacier, Gem Glacier, that until recently had not shown signs of retreat. It, too, is now becoming smaller.
31 Köln Domplatte, Germany, 1945 – 2011
32 St. Nicholas’ Church, Berlin, Germany, 1939 – 2013
33 Poznań, Poland, 1977- 2016
34 Sultan Abdul Samad, Malaysia, 1941 – 2016
35 Hôtel De Ville, France, 1871 – 2014
36 Gymnasium, Osnabrück, Germany, 1870 – 2015
37 Lunch Atop A Skyscraper, New York, Usa, London, England, 1932 – 2011
38 Shepard Glacier, USA, 1913 – 2005
39 Rue De La Paix, Paris, France, 1871 – 2016
Barricade of revolutionary Paris Commune in 1871 in the rue de la Paix (confluence Place Vendôme).
In spring of 1871, it comes for an uprising in Paris of the workers and soldiers of the National Guard against the conservative government. In spontaneous elections a Paris city council (commune) is formed, whose members (communards) try to enforce the transformation of France into a socialist union of sovereign communities against the will of the central government. After bloody clashes the communards finally gain control of Paris.
40 Notre Dame, Paris, France, 1850 – 2016
41 Bereich Um Das Brandenburger, Germany, 1928 – 2015
42 The Place Des Victoires, Paris, France, 1914 – 2017
43 Japanese Troops Advancing Through Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1942 – 2016
44 Pavillons Of The Nations, Paris, France, 1900 – 2017
45 Warmenhuizen, Holland, 1950 – 2016
46 Most Kłodny, Poland, 1900 – 2013
47 L’viv, Ukraine, 1943 – 2017
48 Łódź, Poland, 1887 – 2015
49 Karl Johan Street, Norway, 1899 – 2007
50 Rudolstadt Marktstraße 54 Amtsgericht, Germany, 1906 – 2015
51 Ludwig’s House And Weavery, Łódź, Poland, 1873 – 2015
52 Römerberg, Frankfurt, Germany, 1910 – 2017
53 National Textile Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 1971 – 2016
54 Blick Vom Kap, Germany, 1961 – 2009
55 Cityscape, Montreal, Canada, 1996 – 2015
56 Poznań, Poland, 1925 – 2016
57 The Eiffel Tower, Paris, France, 1888 – 2017
58 Pont Notre-Dame, France, 1910 – 2017
59 Brandenburger Tor, Berlin, Germany, 1976 – 2005
60 Rentforter Straße, Germany, 1945 – 2017
61 Portobello Beach, Edinburgh, Scotland, 1919 – 2016
62 Svartisen Glacier, Norway, 1989 – 2017
63 Osnabrück, Germany, 1914 – 2013
64 Notre-Dame, Paris, France, 1944 – 2017
65 Kyrkö Mosse, Sweden, 1980 – 2015
66 Opera Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam, 1945 – 2015
67 The Old St. Louis County Courthouse, St. Louis, Illinois, 1865 – 2015
68 San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, California, 1980 – 2007
69 Near Poznań, Poland, 1936 – 2017
70 Rue De Rivoli, Paris, France, 1900 – 2016
71 Victory Gate, Munich, Germany, 1925 – 2017
72 Osnabrück, Germany, 1953 – 2015
73 Seine From Pont De L’alma, Paris, France, 1900 – 2017
74 Checkpoint Charlie, Germany, 1961 – 2009
75 St. Stephen’s Green Shopping Centre, Ireland, 2004 – 2013
76 Poznań, Poland, 1968 – 2017
77 Rue St. Placide, Paris, France, 1944 – 2016
78 Nordkap, Norway, 1975 – 2015
79 Poznań, Poland, 1968 – 2017
80 Höffken House, Essen-Burgaltendorf, Germany, 1951 – 2016
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