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Some years ago I found some glass plate slides in a battered box at a junk market; and because, at the time, a country that felt very far away was at war, I bought them.
On closer inspection it would seem that these slides were taken in the late part of the nineteenth century in Dalmatia, Heregovina and the surrounding area. Each slide is numbered and has a hand written title which usually includes the place name. Some of these labels I can't translate as I don't know the place names and the script is hard to decipher. The place names I can work out are those used before Tito came to power.
When I first posted this site I made a request for any information anyone could give me about the slides. Many people mailed me with ideas about what titles might be, but then I got an email from Nikola Radic. Thanks to Nikola's incredible detective work there is now a wealth of information about most of these slides, including exactly where the photographer was standing for each shot. All of the text here is now Nikola's, as I cannot hope to compare with the work of such a wonderful historian.
Nikola has set me one mystery to solve having given me a clue as to the name of the photographer - perhaps John Buchanan/Buchewn. I will be following this up to try to discover exactly who he was.
Here are the titles of the slides that I can work out, with question marks where I have not been able to work out the handwriting and sometimes gaps in the numbering as I don't seem to have all the slides in my keeping. I hope you enjoy your tour this beautiful land.
Here too, are maps of the region with the orientation of the photographer marked on each - these will help to put the slides in geographical context. They are also help to envisage the route our photographer took on his journeys.
Please note that these slides are best viewed in at least thousands of colours unless anyone can tell me a way of getting greyscale images to look good on the net in 256 colours.
Here are some other sites that might be of interest if you want to find a bit more out about the history of the former Yugoslavia
a site about the former Yugoslavia - some interesting pieces on food, language (including words and phrases) and locations
Bosnia Up-to-date info and news stories and lots of interesting links
Croatia supported by CARNet's directory of the Croatian WWW servers
descriptions of Bocche Cattaro and Montenegro from Lt. Harold Speakman (US Army), who served with Allied peacekeeping forces in Montenegro after World War I
An Italian view on Dalmatia
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