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Name of Object:

Passengers and onlookers waiting for the métropolitain at the Place de Bastille

Other name of the Object (second name):

Taken from Vie et Métiers à Paris

Location:

Paris, France

Holding Institution:

National Library of France

 About National Library of France, Paris

Date of Object:

19th century

Author:

Photographer: Eugène Atget (1857-1927)

Inventory Number:

Est. Oa 615 t.1

Description:

Eugène Atget (1857–1927) began developing an interest in photography in 1888. He created his photos in series, and sold them to institutions. It was thus, that around 1898, he came to photograph the old neighbourhoods of Paris destined to demolition, and sold these photographs to the new Commission du Vieux Paris. As he photographed roads dug up by the urban excavations, he also captured onlookers fascinated by this new mode of transport. The Bastille station is pictured here, one of the overground sections of the ligne 1, which explains how these people were able to comfortably observe. The Colonne de Juillet of the Place de Bastille is visible in the background.

Archival or Bibliographical Reference:

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Citation of this web page:

"Passengers and onlookers waiting for the métropolitain at the Place de Bastille " in "Sharing History", Museum With No Frontiers, 2024. https://sharinghistory.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;AWE;fr;109;en

Translation by: Flaminia Baldwin

MWNF Working Number: FR 109

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