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Images from the Image Collections (Billedsamlingen) at University of Bergen Library, Norway. A bunch of the images will have a bike, that happens. About once […]

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Absolute #cinema!

This is Konsertpaleet (The Concert Palace) sometime in the years after the war. "Notorious" by Alfred #hitchcock is showing, and drawing a crowd.

Konsertpaleet is still a cinema, now combined with its adjacent Engen Kino, but was opened as […]

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A black and white image of a cinema entrance at night. A light stone building, with marquees reading "NOTORIOUS" and a poster for Alfred Hitchcock's movie of the same name and actors Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman.
November 26, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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The #Bergen train station, opened in 1913, four years after the Bergensbanen to Oslo was completed, replacing the old station on the southwestern side of Lille Lungegaardsvann.

The building is set on top of the old "cholera graveyard" from the 1848 epidemic […]

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A large train station, stone walls and a half-crescent shaped window in the front. People walk in and out of the central doors. In the background, mountains.
November 25, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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"Finishes while you wait!" was the name of a book and exhibition of images from the 1928 #Bergen expo, our version of the world's fairs, where locals – among many, many, many other things – could get their photos taken and developed on the spot.

Among these […]

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A black and white image of a boy in a suit and tie with a teddy bear on his shoulders, in front of a backdrop of the 1928 Bergen expo landmark, the two towers.
November 24, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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When in doubt, #tram it out!

This is the #Bergen line 1 in 1925, at the crossing between Inndalsveien and Bjørnsonsgaten.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-292-003.html
#norway #Norge […]

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A tram coming in from the right, going past a waiting shed. In the background, mountains.
November 23, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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1960s TikTok was a bit different. It was handcranked and analogue.

This is the inside of the clock in the #Bergen #cathedral (fourth picture to see the outside). The church is old, in its original place since 1150, but has burned and been partially rebuilt […]

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A black and white image of a man with a tool working on the mechanics of a church clock face, silhouetted against the light from outside. A black and white image of a man hand cranking a large clock mechanic in a church. A black and white image of a man with a tool working on the mechanics of a church clock face. A black and white image of Bergen Cathedral (Bergen Domkirke), clock face visible from the front.
November 21, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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What's in a name?

#Harbitz built this building on the corner overlooking the #Bergen fish market in the 1930s, and added a clock to the tower, of which the business name was over – so people called it the Harbitz corner.

Later, a locally famous restaurant […]

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Black and white image of a view of the corner of a city block in the sun. The building is white, and on the corner is a housing for a large clock, one on each side of a corner. Above the clock you can read "HARBITZ". Cars and people on the streets.
November 20, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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Strandgaten, 1909. The place to see and be seen.

Still an important shopping street, Strandgaten (Beach Street) in the #Bergen city centre has been called that since 1857, and has been a central spot for trade and goods since the 1200s.

In the background […]

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A black and white photo of an early 1900s streetscape, two women in ornate dresses walking in the foreground, crowds of people in the streets. In the background, a white house with an archway under it.
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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¡Bienvenidos a Florida!

This doesn't look like #Florida, you say? It looks like #Bergen in 1957? Shows how much you know!

Florida in Bergen has been named so since the mid-1700s, possibly from a local family gazebo or a tavern, likely named for the flowers […]

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A black and white photo of a road crossing, with buses and trams meeting. People walking on sidewalks. On the top of a hill, a white stately building (the UiB Geophysical Institute). In the background, mountains.
November 18, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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The 1900s was a time of great expansions of the urban life also outside of the very city centre of #Bergen.

This image from 1933 shows construction, recently done, from Gimlevegen, which was to form parts of the beginnings of a larger footprint for the city […]

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A fresh-facaded apartment building with kids sitting and talking outisde, washed clothes hanging to dry in the sun.
November 17, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Excavating a new way through the mountain masses is no hindrance for an adjacent #tram.

Here around the turn of the century, as Nye Sandviksveien (New Sandviken Road) was expanded into its current path.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of #Bergen Library […]

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Workers have cleaved through a mountain block to make a path for a road. Next to it, a small tram runs on the outside – for now.
November 15, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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The Christmas Day fire of 1962, in the Fylkeshotellet (County Hotel), an apartment building for unhoused people in the city. Seven people died.

Photo by Trygve Schønfelder, via University of Bergen Library […]

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Black and white image of a night time flashlit street with many people. In the background, you see light from a fire behind the buildings.
November 14, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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This roof is more recently know for its large #neonsign of the Bergens Tidende newspaper logo. But just after the war, another brand got there first!

VIKING is the wellington boot brandname of the Askim Gummivarefabrikk rubber factory – and if it's one city […]

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A brick house in an urban road crossing in the rainy dusk. Businesses on the ground floor paint the nearby street in lights. On the roof, a neon sign selling "VIKING – A/S ASKIM GUMMIVAREFABRIKK". In the background to the right, the Bergen St. Jacob's church.
November 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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The I#celandic men's #choir Karlakor Reykjavikur arrives by ship to the #Bergen harbour.

In May 1935, the choir came to sing in the local House of Trade and Seafarers. According to their website, they are still going strong, and has been since 1926!

Photo […]

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A group of men in white caps standing on the deck of a ship, looking at the camera. In the background, other ships in the Bergen harbour.
November 12, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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The plan from 1937 and the final result from the 50s. Quite similar!

The "SUNDT" building was drawn by #Bergen architect Per Grieg. It was recently reopened in 2025 after a year of rehabilitation and due to its listing as cultural heritage, the exterior […]

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An architectural drawing of the Sundt mall in Bergen, black and white, striking angles with a large sign reading SUNDT – last name of businessman who started the original shop it was built on – and a tall straight pedestal on which a statue stands. A black and white image of a man walking through a public square. In the background, a white mall with a SUNDT sign, and a large straight pedestal on which a statue stands.
November 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Women at work!

The Janus factory in #Arna has been producing clothing articles since 1895, mostly woolen socks and underwear, flame-retardant underclothes for the industry sector, but also nylon stockings.

At its height in 1966, some years after this […]

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A large factory floor lit from large windows on the left, with a myriad of women operating sewing machines. Most have a large pile of white clothing items next to them.
November 11, 2025 at 7:36 AM
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What's this band is called? Only wrong answers.

The evening entertainment at Grand selskapslokaler one night in the early 1940s.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-422-025.html
#norway […]

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A black and white image of a quartet band. A white-suited drummer looking at the camera, his bass drum has a caricature of him on it. A pianist, trumpetist and saxophone in dark suits.
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Higher, higher!

Two kids playing in the Barneparken (Children's Park, a playground) at Øvregaten in 1975.

Photo by Solveig Greve, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-sg-001-002a.html
#norway #Norge #norskpix #historical #blackandwhitephotography
A black and white photo of two kids at a swing set, at full speed.
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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Brigademusikken (The Military Music Orchestra) playing in the Music Pavilion in the #Bergen central park in 1902. This orchestra played here every day before noon in the summer half of the year from the pavilion opened in 1899 and for many years.

The […]

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A black and white image from the early 1900s of people surrounding a 1800s gazebo pavilion, and an orchestra playing inside it.
November 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Local band Bergeners playing at the opening of a playground in Claus Frimanns gate in 1977.

They are a vispop folk band singing in a #Bergen dialect. Among their most famous songs are "Jenter fra Bergen" (Girls from Bergen), but they also had many songs for […]

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A black and white image of a 70s group of long-haired men with string instruments playing and singing while sitting in front of an audience of small children. One child in particular stands in front of the group, smiling at them.
November 7, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Laksevåg in #Bergen. 1975. The local triuvirate meets up to discuss current topics.

Photo by Solveig Greve, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-sg-025-008.html
#norway #Norge #norskpix #historical #blackandwhitephotography
A long shot of three women, one with a child, one with a baby carriage, and another talking to them all, in front of a telephone booth, by a group of people sitting. In the foreground, two 1970s cars.
November 6, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Kids drawing up a version of hopscotch (hoppe paradis) in Halvkannesmauet in #Bergen in 1958.

Halvkannesmauet (Half Mug Street) is a street in Nordnes, named so after a previously common unit of beer just short of our liter – which was also the name of […]

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A black and white photo of a narrow alley of wooden houses. Three kids look at another kid drawing squares in the street with chalk, likely a hopscotch pattern of some kind.
November 5, 2025 at 10:13 AM
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Fridalen in the early 1900s. Then, an agricultural and natural landscape, today a "suburb" of #Bergen. Then, as now, still probably a good place to get some contemplative walks.

Photo by Ralph L. Wilson, via University of Bergen Library […]

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A black and white image of a snow-covered landscape. Next to a dark and leafless tree, a woman in the distance looks out towards the horizon.
November 4, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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My face when someone reminds me it's #november.

The phone was introduced to the country by "the father of phones in Norway" – #Bergen resident and engineer Jens S.K. Hopstock – who launched the local Bergen Telefonkompagni (Bergen Telephone Company) in 1881 […]

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A black and white image of a woman in late 1800s clothing, white blouse and dark skirt, taking a phone call while staring at the camera.
November 3, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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King Haakon of #norway, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany and Prussia, and Norwegian Prime Minister Christian Michelsen on Mount Fløyen, at the event of Wilhelms visit to Norway in 1909.

Wilhelm II often came to the Western Norwegian coast on his travels, and for […]

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A black and white image of three men discussing. King Haakon, a tall man in a uniform to the right, Kaiser Wilhelm II in a uniform with his characteristing upturned moustache in the middle, and the prime minister Michelsen in a suit and bowler hat to the right.
November 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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#Skostredet – the shoe street – in #Bergen is named for its historically many shoe cobblers.

At its height in the late middle ages, the street had 36 different businesses doing shoe and leather work.Here, in 1957, the street seems more sedentary.

In 1625 it […]

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A narrow cobblestone street, wooden and plaster houses on both sides, a woman walking on the sidewalk towards the camera.
October 31, 2025 at 10:28 AM