Slashdot is reporting that the German Federal Archive has agreed to donate 100,000 images to Wikipedia. The pictures cover 1860 to the present. "This is the largest picture donation ever to Wikipedia, and possibly the largest in the history of the free culture movement."
Here's a link to the image archive, organized by year.
The top image shows the beach at Tsingtao in 1897; below that is what I believe is an equivalent view of the renamed Qingdao in 2007 (source Wiki commons). Tsingtao/Qingdao was of course for many years an important German colony; the best residual evidence of this is Tsingtao beer, because a friend once advised me you can always identify an old German colony by noting that it will have an important beer industry.
99,999 more images at the link for you to explore...
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