Paris circa 1910

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Now that's an urban farm! Near the Seine for water and probably to make it easy to transport fresh produce into the markets in the centre of Paris as well.The image was taken using Autochrome Lumière technology. It's an early color photography process, patented in 1903 and marketed first in 1907. The process was invented by the famous French Auguste and Louis Lumière, populary known as Lumière Brothers. And posted on curiouseggs.com.

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This appears to be the loading dock of a city market. We see a lot of trucks here, but horses were still being used. Just by the poorer merchants who hadn't been able to make the change to the new technology.

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The shift away from horse power was important in the cities, as horse manure was a terrible problem. Dried manure blew around as couds of dust, causing a number of respiratory illnesses. For farmers, the shift to tractors freed up about half their land for marketable commodities. Draft animals required between 50% and 60% of arable land be dedicated to their upkeep.

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This looks an awful lot like mussels for sale. My guess is a public fish market in the middle of Paris.

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This is how I remember the Farmer's Market in St. Albert. The difference is that this was daily in the streets. What a way to buy fresh, buy local, and buy from someone you'd get to know. I would love to buy or sell here.

Nova Scotia From The Air

Farms in Kentville, NS 1931. From the archives

Beautiful images of Canada from the early days of both flight and aerial photography are available from the Nova Scotia online archives. These photos were taken by lunatics photographers with plate-style box cameras hanging out of airplanes. They've been digitized and are just gorgeous, detailing a time that really wasn't that far back.
The farm above looks nothing like my grandfather's farm in Manitoba, but, like his, the farm buildings outshine the house.
From the archives:

It was Harold Reid who took most of the photographs in the McCully aerial collection, while Marty Fraser, an ex-RCMP officer and military pilot, flew the plane. According to author Dan Soucoup, McCully was "convinced that the aviation age would provide great opportunities for exposing people to exciting new ways of seeing the world around them.... In May 1931, a young pilot named Marty Fraser flew Reid as far south as Fundy Bay and up into Kent County, and the result is a fascinating collection of aerial photos that reveal the landscape in wonderful bird's-eye views that capture an age long vanished."²
In the summer of 1931 Reid and Fraser also flew over Nova Scotia, where Reid took equally fascinating photographs — 221 of them survive, in fragile glass-plate negative format, and were acquired in 2012 by the Nova Scotia Archives.

This is really cool stuff, and deserves a look.