Time Travel: Famous World Attractions During Their Construction

A book called Paper Time Machine, released by Wolfgang Wilde, is a real find. On its pages you can find as many as 130 curious and unique historical photographs specially selected by the author for publication. This book literally changes the idea of ​​the past, because it is filled with extremely rare photographs that have been restored in color. Fast forward to the period 1840-1940s and see how world famous sights looked at the time when they had just begun to be built.

In London, on Trafalgar Square in 1844, a Nelson column is being built.

Year 1882, place - workshop sculpture by Frederic Auguste Bartholdy in Paris (France). Here people are busy creating the Statue of Liberty.

The picture shows the 1880s. On the hill of Montmartre, which is the highest point in Paris, the construction of the bell tower of the Sacre Coeur Basilica is in full swing.

The famous Tower Bridge, Sir Horace Jones, began to design in 1881. Here we see 1889 - 5 years remain until the end of construction.

The Eiffel Tower is still not so high, because the courtyard is 1888, and the construction has not yet been completed.

1918 year. The excavations of Stonehenge are led by Lieutenant Colonel and archaeologist William Hawley.

American architect John Gutzon Borglum climbed Mount Rushmore on May 31, 1932 to evaluate how well the work on the portrait of George Washington was done.

The Hoover Dam, 221 meters high, is a concrete arch-gravity dam and hydroelectric station that was built in the lower reaches of the Colorado River in the United States. This shot was taken during the construction of a unique hydraulic structure.

San Francisco, 1934. Strait Golden Gate, where the construction of the suspension bridge of the same name is underway.

An ordinary soldier who has arrived from Texas, together with his friends, is trying to catch a goldfish in a pond with his hand. And behind him is the restoration of the Taj Mahal.

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