156 best u/jankcranky images on Pholder | Lost Architecture, Artefact Porn and Papertowns

Ancient Roman bronze shaving razor (1st-2nd century AD) [1419x1783]

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My mom had a nanny that was a Mrs. Doubtfire lookalike, c. 1981.

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A 19th century Japanese Firemen’s coat decorated with a spider hovering over an abandoned Go board. [1080x835]

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Creedence Clearwater Revival at a Taco Bell in California. (1968)

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A 1,700 year old Roman-era “Good Shepard” gold ring bearing an engraving of a boy holding a sheep on his shoulders, an image used by early Christians to symbolise Jesus. Found by archaeologists off Israel's Mediterranean coast in an ancient shipwreck. (900x477)

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Camels in an oil fire

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The skull of a crowned athlete with a gold wreath in the shape of a laurel branch still attached to it. The flesh disintegrated after 2,500 years, but the wreath stuck and remained on the skull. Found in Agios Nikolaos, Crete. (2432x2304)

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Ring with castle, second half of the 16th century, probably Italian. [724x1000]

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St. Peter's Hospital, Bristol, England. Built in the late 14th century as a merchant's house, destroyed in the Bristol Blitz in 1940.

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My Great-Grandfather fresh off the boat from Afghanistan to The U.S. (1913)

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The well-preserved medieval city of Visby, Gotland, Sweden.

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The houses that stood atop the Pont Notre-Dame, Paris, built in the beginning of the 16th century. The houses were razed for sanitary purposes and because of the danger the structures caused to the bridge's stability.

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Abandoned villa in northern Italy

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A member of the Tenth U.S. Cavalry poses with three Apache Scouts, Fort Whipple, Arizona, c. 1885.

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Viking-Era bridge exposed this year at Baitings reservoir in Yorkshire, England due to decreasing water levels. The bridge has been submerged since 1956, when the reservoir was constructed. (2500x1563)

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Sinjter House, built in 1876 in Quincy, Illinois, United States.

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Man riding an elk in Sheridan, Wyoming. (c. 1910)

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Newel post in my family’s 1890s home

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Medieval Kilkenny, Ireland

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Mary B. Moody Mansion, built in 1875, New Haven, Connecticut, United States.

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Melbourne Fish Market, Melbourne, Australia. Built in 1892 and demolished in 1959 for a carpark. The carpark stood for 50 years and was then sold & replaced by this apartment building, completed in 2009.

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Front Avenue from atop Burnside Bridge, looking South in Portland, Oregon, 1939. Shortly before these buildings were demolished for the construction of Harbor Drive.

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Mappin & Webb building, London, United Kingdom. Built in 1871 and controversially demolished in 1994 for No 1 Poultry.

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Park Hotel Bremen, Bremen, Germany. Built in 1890 and was lost to a fire in 1907.

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Medieval City of Gyor, Hungary

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Ornate mansion on Bunker hill, Los Angeles, CA. Built in the late 1800s and demolished in the 1940s-1960s.

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The Spirit of War, oil on canvas by Jasper Francis Cropsey, c. 1851

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1890 Sioux City Corn Palace, Iowa. From 1887 to 1891, Sioux Cityans celebrated the autumn harvest with a festival featuring the construction of a large building in downtown called a Corn Palace covered in corn and other grains.

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William A. Clark House, New York City. Construction started in 1897 and the mansion was completed in 1911. It was razed in 1927 to make way for apartments.

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Princess Takiyasha calling up a monstrous Skeleton specter at the Old Palace in Soma, woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, c. 1845-46 [3400x1657]

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Queen Anne Victorian in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood of San Francisco, United States.

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Whiskey is the last surviving taxidermied specimen of the extinct turnspit dog, a small cooking canine that was bred to run in a wheel that turned a roasting spit in cavernous kitchen fireplaces. They became popular in the 16th century but became extinct by 1900 after their job became mechanized.

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The Old Tripe House, Digbeth, Birmingham, U.K. (1533-1893)

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Old cottage in the forest, Stradbally, Ireland

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The first St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, LA. Built in 1835 and lost to a fire in 1851.

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Les Halles, Paris, built in the 1860s and demolished in 1971.

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Arlington Row, a row of 14th-century cottages in the Cotswolds, Bibury, England.

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The Mesopotamian city of Mari. Located on the Euphrates at the modern site of Tell Hariri in Syria, flourished during the third and early second millennia BCE.

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The Beach Hotel, Galveston, TX. Built in 1882 and destroyed by a mysterious fire in 1898.

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A hunter & his dogs

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Vollmer House, San Francisco, United States, built 1876.

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Salzhaus and Haus Frauenstein. Built around 1600 in Frankfurt, Germany. Both destroyed in 1944 by an RAF raid.

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Hotel Walton, Philadelphia, PA. Built in 1896 and demolished in 1967.

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Dewitt Prescott House, Duluth, Minnesota. Built in 1890, by 1914 it became vacant. It was taken over by the County and sold to a man for $1,500 in 1944. The man dismantled the house and recycled many parts of the house to build his own house and tourist cabins along Hwy 61.

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Chi-Rho page from the Book of Kells, an illuminated manuscript containing the four gospels. Created by monks in a Columban monestary in either Ireland, England or Scotland, c. 800 A.D. The book is regarded as a masterwork of Western calligraphy. [1123 x 1558]

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Ball High School, Galveston, TX. Built in 1884, it was heavily damaged by the hurricane of 1900. The school was back in service by 1901, additions were made in 1915 and a new Ball High was built in the 1950s. The original Ball High was sold and demolished shortly after the new school opened.

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A Viking key from the 11th century, Oland, Sweden. [1500 x 805]

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The 'Green Man' mosaic, a Byzantine mosaic from the Great Palace Mosaic Museum featuring a man with acanthus leaf foliage for a beard, modern-day Istanbul, Turkey, c. 6th century AD. [535x674]

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John Houghton House, Austin, Texas. Built in 1886 and demolished in 1973 for an eight-story parking garage.

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Model of Gorzow Wielkopolski, Poland in the 17th century.

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The City Hall of Troy, New York. Built in 1875 and was lost in a fire in 1938.

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The Butler Exchange Building, Providence, Rhode Island. Built in 1871 and destroyed by a fire in 1925.

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Off bug spray from the 70s at my grandparents cabin.

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The Roman city of Barcino, modern-day Barcelona, Spain

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Temple of Jupiter Optimus Maximus in antiquity

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Vilnius, Lithuania, 14th-16th century

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17th century architecture in Old Quebec City is restored to its former glory.

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Caernarfon, Wales, early 14th Century

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Ancient Scythian diadem found in Ukraine; c. 450 BC [1280x866]

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Clonmel, Ireland c. 1650, during The Cromwellian Siege.

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Bingham High School, Copperton, UT. Built in 1931 and demolished in 2002.

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Tiberias on the Sea of Galilee, Israel, 1st century AD.

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Tenochtitlan at it's height, Mexico, 15th century.

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Second Masonic Temple, Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1867 and lost to a fire in 1895.

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The Constitution Building, Salt Lake City, UT. Built in 1890 and demolished during the downtown redevelopment of the 1970s.

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Ernst Nuppenau House, Detroit, MI. Built in the 1870s and razed in the 1940s.

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Fink's Building, Melbourne, Australia. Built in 1888, the facade survived the great fire of 1897 and the building was reconstructed a few years later. It was demolished in 1967.

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The second Douglas County Courthouse, Omaha, Nebraska. Built in 1885 and razed in 1912, after a new courthouse was completed.

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Miami County Courthouse, Peru, Indiana. Built in 1858 & demolished sometime in the late 1900s-early 1910s.

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Vienna, Austria c. 1849

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Scarlet Macaw Feather Sash, found in a cave in Lavender Canyon, San Juan County, Utah. Ascribed to Ancestral Pueblo Civilization, c. 1150 AD. Yucca rope, Macaw feathers, tassel-eared squirrel pelt, hide straps. (1152x1728)

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A crystal belonging to English necromancer John Dee, c. 1562, used for clairvoyance & healing. According to his own account, the angel Uriel gave him the crystal, along with a recipe for the Philosopher’s Stone. Using crystals in this way was illegal, but Dee got away with it. [3023x4134]

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Templeton Building, Salt Lake City, UT. Built in 1890 and demolished in 1959.

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Printed school lunch menus.

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The Pacific Mutual Building, Los Angeles, California, United States. 1908 vs. 2023

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The Salt Palace, Salt Lake City, UT. Built in 1899, the building had a theatre and dances were held there. It was sprayed with salt crystals to reflect the sun. Lost in a fire in 1910.

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Edo Castle Main Division, Tokyo, Japan, Edo Period

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An Iron Age bog mummy found in 1871 called Rendswuhren Man, image circa 1873.

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Wabash Terminal, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Built in 1904 & razed in 1954.

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Chicago, Illinois, USA, as it was right before the great fire - c. 1871

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Al-Khazneh (The Treasury) in the ancient Nabatean city of Petra, Jordan. Constructed in the 1st century AD, believed to be the mausoleum of King Aretas IV. [1366x908]

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Cossitt Library, Memphis, Tennessee. (1895-1958)

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Rathcroghan Mound, Ireland circa 445 AD.

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Chalice of Emperor Romanos II of the Byzantine Empire, depicts enamels representing Christ and the Apostles, circa 960 A.D. (550 x 663)

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Dinwoodey Furniture Store, Salt Lake City, Utah, U.S.

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On the Feast of St. Nicholas in the town of Bad Mitterndorf, Austria. St Nicholas parades through the village on a white horse followed by the Krampus, who warn the kids to be good, or else...

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A Navajo man performing a Night Chant ceremony while dressed up as the Navajo God Nayenezgani, 1904.

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Liberty Theatre, Salt Lake City. Built in 1911 and razed in 1968.

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The Covey Flats, later renamed La France Apartments, Salt Lake City, UT. Built in 1904 and demolished May 2022.

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Neon Main Street in the 1950s

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A woman in the Wild West wearing a bonnet and a mask designed to protect skin from sun damage.

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Los Angeles, 1909, California, United States

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Third Presbyterian Church, originally called Gunton Memorial Chapel, Salt Lake City, UT. Built in 1904 and demolished in the 1960s.

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Lake Front Depot, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (1890-1968)

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Ancient Egyptian mouse ring, inscribed with the cartouche of Thutmose III, ca. 1479–1425 B.C. [3342x3828]

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Pierce's Palace Hotel, Buffalo, NY. Built in 1877 and was only open for four years before burning down in 1881.

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The Walled City of Norwich in the 14th century, Norfolk, England.

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Salt Lake City, Utah c. 1893, United States

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The Trumpington Cross, found in a teenage Anglo-Saxon girl's grave sewn to her burial gown. Dates back to 650-680 A.D. [1999 x 1701]

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Aztec turquoise mosaic mask of Quetzalcoatl, 1400-1521, Mexico [3156 x 3118]

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Windsor Rice House, Salt Lake City, UT. Built in late 1890s - early 1900s and demolished in the 1960s. All houses pictured around it were demolished as well. Replaced by an apartment complex in the 1980s.

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Women's Industrial Christian Home, Salt Lake City, UT. Built in 1889 by anti-polygamist activists as a refuge from polygamy and its attendant evils. Few women & children took advantage of the facility, it was closed in 1893. Later used as a hotel & athl. club. Demolished in 1985 for a parking lot.

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Smith Drug Store in 1910, at 200 S & Main.

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Ted Bundy with Carol Bartholomew as he helped with the dishes after a birthday party, 1975.

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Mummy Salesman in Luxor, 1870.

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1986 Mazda 626 GT

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Abandoned cabin [oc]

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