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Images from the Image Collections (Billedsamlingen) at University of Bergen Library, Norway. A bunch of the images will have a bike, that happens. About once […] [bridged from https://pixelfed.social/bergenpix on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]
A fresh-facaded apartment building with kids sitting and talking outisde, washed clothes hanging to dry in the sun.
The 1900s was a time of great expansions of the urban life also outside of the very city centre of #Bergen.
This image from 1933 shows construction, recently done, from Gimlevegen, which was to form parts of the beginnings of a larger footprint for the city […]
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Workers have cleaved through a mountain block to make a path for a road. Next to it, a small tram runs on the outside – for now.
Excavating a new way through the mountain masses is no hindrance for an adjacent #tram.
Here around the turn of the century, as Nye Sandviksveien (New Sandviken Road) was expanded into its current path.
Photo by Atelier KK, via University of #Bergen Library […]
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Black and white image of a night time flashlit street with many people. In the background, you see light from a fire behind the buildings.
The Christmas Day fire of 1962, in the Fylkeshotellet (County Hotel), an apartment building for unhoused people in the city. Seven people died.
Photo by Trygve Schønfelder, via University of Bergen Library […]
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A brick house in an urban road crossing in the rainy dusk. Businesses on the ground floor paint the nearby street in lights. On the roof, a neon sign selling "VIKING – A/S ASKIM GUMMIVAREFABRIKK". In the background to the right, the Bergen St. Jacob's church.
This roof is more recently know for its large #NeonSign of the Bergens Tidende newspaper logo. But just after the war, another brand got there first!
VIKING is the wellington boot brandname of the Askim Gummivarefabrikk rubber factory – and if it's one city […]
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A group of men in white caps standing on the deck of a ship, looking at the camera. In the background, other ships in the Bergen harbour.
The I#celandic men's #choir Karlakor Reykjavikur arrives by ship to the #Bergen harbour.
In May 1935, the choir came to sing in the local House of Trade and Seafarers. According to their website, they are still going strong, and has been since 1926!
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An architectural drawing of the Sundt mall in Bergen, black and white, striking angles with a large sign reading SUNDT – last name of businessman who started the original shop it was built on – and a tall straight pedestal on which a statue stands.
A black and white image of a man walking through a public square. In the background, a white mall with a SUNDT sign, and a large straight pedestal on which a statue stands.
The plan from 1937 and the final result from the 50s. Quite similar!
The "SUNDT" building was drawn by #Bergen architect Per Grieg. It was recently reopened in 2025 after a year of rehabilitation and due to its listing as cultural heritage, the exterior […]
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A large factory floor lit from large windows on the left, with a myriad of women operating sewing machines. Most have a large pile of white clothing items next to them.
Women at work!
The Janus factory in #Arna has been producing clothing articles since 1895, mostly woolen socks and underwear, flame-retardant underclothes for the industry sector, but also nylon stockings.
At its height in 1966, some years after this […]
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A black and white image of a quartet band. A white-suited drummer looking at the camera, his bass drum has a caricature of him on it. A pianist, trumpetist and saxophone in dark suits.
What's this band is called? Only wrong answers.
The evening entertainment at Grand selskapslokaler one night in the early 1940s.
Photo by Atelier KK, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-422-025.html
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A black and white photo of two kids at a swing set, at full speed.
Higher, higher!
Two kids playing in the Barneparken (Children's Park, a playground) at Øvregaten in 1975.
Photo by Solveig Greve, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-sg-001-002a.html
#Norway #Norge #NorskPix #Historical #BlackAndWhitePhotography
A black and white image from the early 1900s of people surrounding a 1800s gazebo pavilion, and an orchestra playing inside it.
Brigademusikken (The Military Music Orchestra) playing in the Music Pavilion in the #Bergen central park in 1902. This orchestra played here every day before noon in the summer half of the year from the pavilion opened in 1899 and for many years.
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A black and white image of a 70s group of long-haired men with string instruments playing and singing while sitting in front of an audience of small children. One child in particular stands in front of the group, smiling at them.
Local band Bergeners playing at the opening of a playground in Claus Frimanns gate in 1977.
They are a vispop folk band singing in a #Bergen dialect. Among their most famous songs are "Jenter fra Bergen" (Girls from Bergen), but they also had many songs for […]
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A long shot of three women, one with a child, one with a baby carriage, and another talking to them all, in front of a telephone booth, by a group of people sitting. In the foreground, two 1970s cars.
Laksevåg in #Bergen. 1975. The local triuvirate meets up to discuss current topics.
Photo by Solveig Greve, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-sg-025-008.html
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A black and white photo of a narrow alley of wooden houses. Three kids look at another kid drawing squares in the street with chalk, likely a hopscotch pattern of some kind.
Kids drawing up a version of hopscotch (hoppe paradis) in Halvkannesmauet in #Bergen in 1958.
Halvkannesmauet (Half Mug Street) is a street in Nordnes, named so after a previously common unit of beer just short of our liter – which was also the name of […]
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A black and white image of a snow-covered landscape. Next to a dark and leafless tree, a woman in the distance looks out towards the horizon.
Fridalen in the early 1900s. Then, an agricultural and natural landscape, today a "suburb" of #Bergen. Then, as now, still probably a good place to get some contemplative walks.
Photo by Ralph L. Wilson, via University of Bergen Library […]
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A black and white image of a woman in late 1800s clothing, white blouse and dark skirt, taking a phone call while staring at the camera.
My face when someone reminds me it's #November.
The phone was introduced to the country by "the father of phones in Norway" – #Bergen resident and engineer Jens S.K. Hopstock – who launched the local Bergen Telefonkompagni (Bergen Telephone Company) in 1881 […]
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A black and white image of three men discussing. King Haakon, a tall man in a uniform to the right, Kaiser Wilhelm II in a uniform with his characteristing upturned moustache in the middle, and the prime minister Michelsen in a suit and bowler hat to the right.
King Haakon of #Norway, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prussia, and Norwegian Prime Minister Christian Michelsen on Mount Fløyen, at the event of Wilhelms visit to Norway in 1909.
Wilhelm II often came to the Western Norwegian coast on his travels, and for […]
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A narrow cobblestone street, wooden and plaster houses on both sides, a woman walking on the sidewalk towards the camera.
#Skostredet – the shoe street – in #Bergen is named for its historically many shoe cobblers.
At its height in the late middle ages, the street had 36 different businesses doing shoe and leather work.Here, in 1957, the street seems more sedentary.
In 1625 it […]
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A Bergen black and white cityscape. A flatbed truck is parked on the side of the road. Just behind it a young boy on a trike is ascertaining the traffic to see if he could pass it safely.
Before helmets and bike lanes, this little adventurer was taking the street by storm on their tiny trike. Traffic's not stopping this determined biker.
This is C. Sundts gate in the #Nordnes area of #Bergen, sometime in the late 50s. If you stood at this […]
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A black and white photo of a council meeting in Bergen old city hall. Several desks pointing towards the council hall, and the members turning around towards the camera – not many actual smiling.
Smile to the camera, boys!
The #Bergen city council of 1937 celebrate a 100 years of municipal self-governance from the Law of Local Politics (formannskapsloven). This is in the old city hall, today just next to the city hall, and still being used for […]
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USA likes horses right? Okay, let's export some horses to the US!
Here, a Norwegian "fjording" (Norwegian Fjord Horse), a natural blonde, is being prepared for the journey to America by M/S Ranenfjord in 1956.
Considered the Norwegian national #horse, the […]
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A black and white photo of a docked ship. A car and a crane on the dock in front of the ship.
A #ship docked at Skoltegrunnskaien in #Bergen in the 1950s.
Photo by Gustav Brosing, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bros-04638.html
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A black and white photo of an industrial area next to a body of water, with an industrial crane centrally placed.
Just look at that majestic crane!
This is at #Bergen Kulkompani on the Gyldenpris shores of Puddefjorden, loading coal from ships coming to Bergen. Here sometime around 1930.
Photo by Atelier KK, via University of Bergen Library […]
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A black and white image of a person rowing a boat with wares and goods. In the background, the Bryggen in Bergen.
"Stril" is a historical term for people in the area around the city #Bergen.
Historically, it was used derogatory about fishermen and farmers, and although the definition was loose, it's said to be people from out of town who live so close they can row their […]
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A busy city street, filled with bags and crates of fish, vegetables, possibly flour and other trade goods. People loading stuff onto boats.
Goods, likely going to the islands around #Bergen. C. Sundts gate, sometime in the 1950s.
The #ship you see on the right is SUNNHORDLAND, which went southwards to Stord from 1947 to 1973. The route is still going, but with modern boats. Sunnhordland was sold […]
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A black and white cityscape, a street with stone buildings leading down to the water, with 1950s cars on both sides of the road.
The small street Fortunen, looking across Vågen in #Bergen over to Bryggen, sometime in the 1950s.
The name was originally the name of an older, slightly different street. It was named after the tavern #FORTUNA, which had been in the city since the 1500s […]
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A quiet cityscape, a stone stair in the foreground, a white wooden house in the background, and a blurry daredevil standing on the back axles of his kid tricycle, going through the streets.
José Yanez was an American pioneer in two-wheeled stunts. In 1984, he became the first person to ever do a backflip on a bike – landing a full revolution, six years before anyone else could do it.
How does that relate to this image?
What I am trying to tell […]
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A black and white photo of a couple eating and relaxing by their van. Her lying down on a mattress in the back of the van, drinking coffee. Him on a camping chair with a coffee cup. A radio, assorted food, drinks and cutlery around the van.
Your Great Gramps also did #vanlife!
Here from a calm and peaceful Storetveit camping trip around 1953, at that time on the outskirts of #Bergen. The campsite on the western side of Tveitevannet lake was quite close to the road to Fana, but still popular […]
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A black and white image of a narrow cobble alleyway snaking between numerous old houses at odd angles.
Back alleys in the historical Nordnes area of #Bergen in the beginning of the 1900s.
Photo by Ralph L. Wilson, via UNiversity of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-wil-a-152a.html
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A black and white image of a dark basement with desk filled with large vats of clear liquids, note paper, and tubes connecting everything. An empty chair and a desk lamp rounds out the rather bleak ambience of this "work room".
Ah, 1951! Back when men wore men, women were where –?– and the University basement had meth la…
This is not a meth lab? It is a "work room" for a "majors student" which just happened to be in the back storage room of a basement in a University of #Bergen […]
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A black and white image of two women sitting in front of a large loom depicting a historical figure who could be a nobleman in front of the traditional Bergen harbour.
A looming Norwegian threat.
Norwegian folk #crafts has been a large part of the tapestry of the nation, since we began vying for a country of our own. Here are two women weaving a literal tapestry in the 50s, a photo taken for #Husfliden – the organisation […]
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