Photo Album 9

Postcards

During the period after the liberation of the Ionian coastline (West Minor Asia) by the Greek Army, the city of Smyrna as well as all the other Greek cities and villages situated seaside, started to develop rapidly. The air of freedom and the opening of the ports to the free world triggered an unprecedented progress in almost every sector of the local economy. The economic welfare of the local population replaced the hundreds of years of economic depression and decline not to mention the oppression and the massacres of the non-Muslim people which had occurred during the past decade. Consequently, Tourism also earned a big share of the financial investments which were given that time for the peaceful progress of Anatolia. The Ancient Hellenic cities of Ephesos, Pergamos, Allikarnasos, etc, together with the beauty of the Ionian landscape itself, started to attract more and more people. Part of this worldwide touristic campaign were the Postcards designed and photocopied by the world's biggest travel agencies of that golden time...    

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1. Click to see the picture! 274x426 38.231b A "salep" seller or "lemonade peddler" 
2.  Click to see the picture! 862x290 73.852b The quay of Smyrni in 1904 - The "European section"
3.  Click to see the picture! 429x287 46.961b, 436x280 25.246b, 427x285 51026b Camel and Donkey jockeys & stand. (3 postcards)
4.  Click to see the picture! 432x295 36.565b Entering Smyrni's famous quay road.
5.  Click to see the picture! 600x393 41.064b The French Hospital in Smyrni
6.  Click to see the picture! 600x397 50.837b The American College of Smyrni. Kindergarten building.
7.  Click to see the picture! 511x302 41.758b

Inner part of the dock of Smyrni. View of the building of the National Bank of Greece.
8.  Click to see the picture! 546x353 58.747b, 432x286 42.230b Panorama of the city of Smyrni. (2 Postcards)
9. Click to see the picture! 419x279 35.754b

Minor Asia - Panoramic view of Ephesus 4th ancient city. (the castle on the hill).
10. Click to see the picture! 555x349 33.130b The famous "Sporting Club".
11. Click to see the picture! 1088x356 63.481b "Salut de l' Orient" (=Greetings from the East).
12. Click to see the picture! 1090x354 77.757b

The famous Smyrna's Quay. (2)
13. Click to see the picture! 279x427 37.661b, 428x276 48.356b, 273x429 47.563b, 417x287 37.886b. Ex-ante military propaganda Caricature Postcards with the defeated powers of WWI.
(4 Postcards)
14. Click to see the picture! 427x281
49165b		 The Suburbs of Smyrni: The Melantia bay (Karatash voe).
15. Click to see the picture! 400x254
 19.889b		 Panorama of Smyrna. Coloured-Postcard of the era.
16. Click to see the picture! 429x285
 44.197b		 Vatican City - Pope Benoit XV and his Beatitude Demetrius I with the members of the Greek Catholic Church in Rome (June 1920).
17. Click to see the picture! 287x433
 45.415b		 A Postcard displaying a Jewish family in Smyrna.
18. Click to see the picture! 429x287
 45.143b		 Smyrne- Early Litho Postcard- General View of the Quay.
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 67.021b		 Smyrne - St. Polycarpe's tomb. Landscape view.
20. Click to see the picture! 427x281
 49.458b		 A group of a Gypsy family in front of their tent.

 

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