Anreise: What & Why

Hello and welcome to the official embarking of The Anreise Venture!

If you are reading this post I assume that you desire to know the what and why of this project, and I will consent to oblige in as briefly a manner as I am able. 

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In the first place, I am a young thing with an insatiable curiosity of the Past, who has likewise been an avid collector of vintage photographs for a few years now. While I'm fond of the sentimental photos of babies, lovers, and laughing folk, I've always been drawn to photos of people in and around houses, building, statues, monuments, etc.  

Since often these photos are found at the bottom of a basket with nearly no identification, I was always left wondering where, when, and whether or not the structures in the images were still in existence. This project is a means to give names to the nameless and add to the narrative of the structures/places of the Past, through a collective effort of sharing photos, identifying their location, and establishing the current state(is the structure still there, have things changed since the time in the old photo, etc).

Ideally, I hope the readers of this blog will take an active part in identifying locations and submitting both vintage photos of locations, as well as photos of themselves at the locations that have been previously identified.

But if nothing else, I hope this blog stokes the flames of curiosity and inspires readers to learn more about History and our place in it.


Here's to getting there. <3