A black and white image of a three-tiered urban area, up top on a hill a dark brick school, then a line of residential homes, and at the bottom an industrial area with train tracks leading to and passing a butcher house. In the background, mountains.

Sandviken, late around 1919.

The building to the right is "Slaktehuset", the first municipal butcher house finished around the time when this photo was made – as a way to regulate safe and hygenic treatment of raw meat. The building on the top of the hill is […]

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A black and white photo of a steep street, stone and brick buildings on each side, before a zig-zagging pathway goes up the steeper mountainside towards houses further up. A thin coat of snow covers everything. Children on sleds use the new surface in the best way possible.

Korskirkeallmenningen winter of 1946. Fresh snow covers the street going up from #Korskirken (Church of the Holy Cross) towards Mount #Fløyen, and kids use it as best they can. Got to get to it before the rain comes back!

Photo by Jacob Blaauw Kooter, via […]

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A closeup of detail of a concrete arch bridge. In the background, mountains.

Puddefjord #bridge. Puddikæn. Pudden. A beloved child has many names.

This bridge was built in 1956, and connected the city center peninsula with Gyldenpris, and on to important throughlines to Fyllingsdalen and Laksevåg, an important part of the […]

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A black and white image of two kids on trikes in rain gear. It is raining.

A normal day in #Bergen in 1975.

Photo by Solveig Greve, via University of Bergen Library: marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-...
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A black and white image of low-rise buildings under construction in the foreground, finished low-rise (and other) buildings in the middle ground. In the background, mountains.

Building a "suburb". After the war, #Bergen needed expanding, and many of its surrounding areas were urbanised, #Landås among them. Here in 1952, as Hagerups vei low-rise were being constructed.

Photo by Tore Neumann Sund, via University of Bergen Library […]

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A black and white image of several racks filled with skis in a train station hall.

Taking the Bergensbanen #railway to the mountains at #Easter used to be so popular that it was unthinkable to bring your skis with you the train. But you could register them on the station and have them be numbered for pickup.

10 461 pairs of skis had been […]

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A black and white image of a white power station standing at the bottom of a hill. People chilling in the grass next to it. In the background, mountains.

A black and white image of a white power station standing at the bottom of a hill. In the background, mountains.

From back when industrial buildings could be drawn like cathedrals. Solheim secondary station receives high voltage power, and distributes it around Solheim, and was drawn up by Sigurd Lunde in 1915 and finished in 1924.

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A black and white image of a narrow steep cobblestone street. Brick wall with a fence on top and a street lamp on the left-hand side, wooden houses on the right. Sunny day!

Smau. The most #Bergen word we have meaning alley, or narrow street.

Photo by Jacob Blaauw Kooter, via University of Bergen Library: marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-...
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A black and white photo of a large white ship docked in front of an industrial area sometime in the 1910s. The side reads "Sneklokken – Norge", which is also the Norwegian name for the flower snowdrop.

Ah, finally, spring is here, with the arrival of snowdrop flowers to our lovely cit…

Wait, I am being told that this is an image of a ship named snowdrop ("Sneklokken", lit: snow bell) docked in Møhlenpris, #Bergen, and not the actual flower, which is […]

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A boy in a knitted sweater, cradling a – possibly sleeping – black and white cat.

New friends are to be made, even in the summer holidays of 1954.

Okay, so this image is technically from an island just outside of #Bergen – #Hanøy – but it was too good to give up.

Photo by Edwood Christensen, via University of Bergen Library […]

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A black and white image showing two people with lab coats, face masks and hair ties handling Erlenmeyer flasks of transparent fluids.

Two women at work in a #Haukeland #hospital lab in 1952.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of #Bergen Library: marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-...
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A black and white photo of a stage with people in costume, most of them standing with their hands on their hips looking proud. Backdrops showing docked boats and city houses.

Billedsamlingen also has a large collection of the #theatre production photos throughout its history. Here, from a production of #JulesVerne's "In Search of the Castaways" (Kaptein Grants barn) in 1927.

Photo by Selmer Malvin Norland, via University of […]

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A black and white image looking up at a wooden house with a painted sign, reading "The Jössing Street", with arrows pointing to the left and right. Up top is a monogram of H and 7, signifying King Haakon VII.

The famous #Bryggen in #Bergen was traditionally called "Tyskebryggen" – The German Pier – and many street names in the city has influences from the #Hansa times.

After the second world war, there was a mood to change a lot of these, as shown by this sign […]

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A black and white image of a 1920s bus, in front of city houses.

Noot, noot, I'm a #bus!

The #Bergen-Nesttun bus line around 1925.

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A black and white photo from behind a football goal, a keeper stretching for a ball from above. In the background, mountains.

Ah, sportsball!

A moment from 1930 Brann stadium, named for the #soccer team #Brann ("Fire"!). We don't actually know exactly why they were named BRANN, but considering the city's many fires throughout history, one can speculate.

Luckily for Brann's […]

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A black and white image of a large package delivered through a stone gate on a white building with a forklift. Several workers help guide it through the doors.

Norway's first commercial computer, an #IBM650 dubbed #EMMA (Elektronisk MateMAtikk-regnemaskin), came to #Bergen in 1958, and was delivered to the Geophysical Institute at #UiB.

Input to EMMA was through punch cards to a memory of 2000 words on a rotating […]

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A dark winter garden, large glass pane walls, a woman and daughter sitting in a couch at the far side of the room, surrounded by plants.

We're in the winter garden, of course.

This image, from the early 1900s, in the winter garden of local castle #Gamlehaugen (The Old Hill), which was commissioned by shipping magnate, and later prime minister of Norway, Christian Michelsen. The construction […]

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A black and white photo of two tall diving towers, and dozens of people sitting on the pool edge or on land, in summer heat. In the background, trees.

Nordnes Sjøbad in the 30s on a hot summer's day.

Opened in 1910, and municipal since a decade later, it has been a source of refreshment for generations. The first years it was like this, two wooden pools chained to the shore. Later a pool on land was built […]

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Seven men, four standing arms crossed, three sitting legs crossed. All in early 1900s swim trunks, the one in sitting in the middle with a tank top with the Bergen Swimming Club logo on.

About time we posted a thirst trap. #Bergen Swimming Club polo team, around 1908.

Photo by Alfred Brundtland, via University of Bergen Library: marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-...
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A black and white photo of a narrow cobblestone alley with wooden houses. On the right hand side of the street, a bakery with a pretzel sign and one saying "BRØD" (Bread). In the background, mountains.

Cort Piil Alley (Cort Piil-smauet) is named for the mayor of #Bergen around 1580-1600, a narrow cobblestone alley. Famed author Amalie Skram (1846-1905) lived at the top of the street in her youth.

Photo by Olai Schumann Olsen, via University of Bergen […]

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A black and white image of a rainy market place in front of a row of old wooden harbour houses. Close to a hundred wet umbrellas reflecting the white and foggy skies above.

Fisketorget, The Fish Market in #Bergen, in the rain (no surprises there!), some time in the interwar period.

Photo by Olai Schumann Olsen, via University of Bergen Library: marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-...
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A balck and white image of a car being craned aboard a ship. Onlookers standing on the quay. Bryggen in Bergen in the background.

"Monte Carlo racers traveling through #Bergen today. Will the snowfall in the south make it difficult for them?" wrote Bergens Aftenblad Thursday January 15, 1951.

Here we see Englishman Mr. Whalley's Ford being taken aboard the ship MS Tromsøsund, for a […]

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A black and white image of a handful of burgeoning skiers looking at an instructor in the hill. 70s knitted fashion.

Celebrating some cross-country skiing in the #Olympics. Skiers being instructed, sometime in the 1970s!

Photo via University of #Bergen Library: marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-...
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A black and white image on a street corner, looking down at children on sleds. In the background, snow-covered mountains.

Fredrik Meltzer Street on a winter day in 1947, looking up at the #Bergen mountains.

Meltzer was a local from an old merchant family, and a politician who was one of the signatories of the intitial Norwegian constitution in 1814. He is, however, mostly known […]

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A black and white image of a dark cabin on snow, towards a clear sky. A dozen people standing in front of and on top of it, ladders raised up the wall, working on roof and enjoying the sun.

#Winter at Vikinghytten at Vareggen, sports club Viking's destination point for hikes and #ski trips. Here in 1930, a dugnad (voluntary work) gang doing small repairs.

This cabin was carried up by foot and skis and built, piece by piece, through the years […]

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A baker's dozen of people – in late 1800s suits and hats – gathered around a small cabin in a rocky mountain side.

"And we used to live 7 people here! Those were the days…"

Okay, so maybe it was just a cabin. Urdalstua at Sandviksfjellet, some time around the turn of the century. Closer to the city than it might seem, it's not far from the #Bergen center.

Photo via […]

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A window exhibition showing a man running, the Olympic rings, and a map of Northern Europe with Finland outlined. The text "XII Olympiske Leker". On the window sill, it says "Berg-Hansen & Co Travelbureau".

Unlike @pastoslo@pixelfed.babb.no, #Bergen can't say we have had any #Olympic games here. But we can always dream… of travelling somewhere else!

Like this window exhibition from travel bureau Berg-Hansen, advertising for the summer games in #Helsinki in 1940 […]

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A black and white photograph from 1928 showing the storefront of "Bergens Symaskinkompagni A/S" in daylight. A large glass window displays a bicycle hanging in the center, surrounded by several sewing machines sitting on their carrying cases. Above the window is a sign that reads "GRITZNER". To the left, a small sign identifies the address as "Store Markevei 6".

It would still take some years before someone thought of putting a small electrical motor in a bike, but they had all the pieces for it right here in 1928! Just take the motor from a sewing machine, attach it to that sturdy bicycle, and you'd have the perfect […]

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A black and white photo of a man and a woman on skis under an umbrella, standing close and looking at each other.

#Bergen is not a large ski destination, largely because umbrellas are very bad aerodynamical ski poles. But they can be romantic!

Photo by Olai Schumann Olsen, via University of Bergen Library: marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-... […]

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