Photo Archive Books Online - Athens and Thessaloniki (1900-1980)

The Secretariat General of Information & Communication along with the Secretariat General of Mass Media of Greece is offering two very interesting photo archive books 1900-1980 online for FREE.  One book is on Athens, the other on Thessaloniki.


Note:  On a personal level, I LOVED looking at these books.


PHOTO ARCHIVE DOCUMENTS



Athens- Photo Archive Documents


“The present volume refers to Athens and is the second in a series of publications which uses material drawn from the photo archive of the Secretariat General of Communication-Secretariat General of Information. The first volume, which was published in 2006 as a tribute to contemporary Thessaloniki, also anthologizes a number of records of this valuable photo archive.


• Contents
• Introduction
• Photographical Agencies and Photographers
• Athens at the end of the 19th Century
• Athens and Antiquity
• Plaka
• The City Plan:Roads of Athens, Part A
• The City Plan:Roads of Athens, Part B
• Squares
• The Means of Transportation
• The Buildings, Part A
• The Buildings, Part B
• The Peoples of the City: Athenians-Life
• Some days different than others
• Bibliography



Thessaloniki - Photo Archive Documents 1900-1980


The documents from the Photo Archive of the Secretariat General of Communication – Secretariat General of Information contribute greatly to the visual art documents archive regarding modern and contemporary Thessaloniki; this is a contribution which provides significant advantages to both historical and humanitarian research. The representative material chosen consists of 114 photos, 35 of which were taken before and during the Second World War and 79 after that. Book contents:


• Message of Minister of State
• Introduction
• The Port
• The Waterfront
• The White Tower
• The University and the Thessaloniki International Fair
• The Monuments
• The inner features
• The Works
• Photomaps
• Chronological listing of Photographs
• Bibliography
• Location Index