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  • Audience with allied missions in the Imperial Palace at Tsarskoye Selo, 31st January 1917, with left-right, Pokrovsky, Lord Revelstoke, Scialoia, Lord Milner, Sir G Buchanan, Tsar Nicolas II, Miss Carlotti, Doumergue, General Castelnau, General Raggieri and Count Fredericksz, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3864, 24th March 1917. This is one of the last photographs sent to L'Illustration by the Russian court photographer. Some of them date from 1916 but permission to publish was only granted on 20th March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jeep transporting soldiers during the Russian Revolution in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, 11th or 12th March 1917, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3868, 21st April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Allied ambassadors, left-right, Marquis Carlotti of Italy, David Francis of America, Albert Thomas of France and Sir George Buchanan of Great Britain at the Fourth Duma, 10th May 1917, in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, during the Russian Revolution, photograph published on the front page of L'Illustration no.3874, 2nd June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Soldiers digging a grave in the snow in front of the Winter Palace to bury victims of combat carried into the streets between 10th and 15th March 1917, in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, during the Russian Revolution, photograph by Daily Mirror, published in L'Illustration no.3867, 14th April 1917. In this square many demonstrators were also killed during the riots of January 1905. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Soldiers and students firing at police occupying the opposite bank of the Moika canal, Petrograd (later St Petersburg), during the Russian Revolution in March 1917, photograph by Daily Mirror, published full page in L'Illustration no.3867, 14th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Sentry guarding the dead after a bloody day of fighting during the Russian Revolution in March 1917, photograph by Pyotr Otsup, 1883-1963, published in L'Illustration no.3869, 28th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Crowds in front of the Palace of Tauride (seat of the Provisional Government after the February Revolution), in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, Russia, during the Russian Revolution, on 14th March 1917, photograph by P Wolkof of Vetchernee Vremia, published in L'Illustration no.3868, 21st April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Crowds marching towards the Duma or parliament building in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, during the Russian Revolution, 12th March 1917, photograph by Karl Bulla, 1853-1929, published in L'Illustration no.3868, 21st April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Grigori Rasputin, 1869-1916, peasant and mystical healer who advised the imperial family, and his women, including Anna Vyrubova, the 'dark forces' before the Russian Revolution, photograph by Karl Bulla, 1853-1929, published in L'Illustration no.3868, 21st April 1917. Anna Vyrubova (standing, in white, with eyes looking up), introduced Rasputin to the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna, and was arrested on 21st March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Funeral of Revolutionary fighters in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, 5th April 1917, with coffins carried by soldiers, students and workers, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3869, 28th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tsar Nicolas II, his son and his daughters the Grand Duchesses, with officers of the imperial guard, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3864, 24th March 1917. This is one of the last photographs sent to L'Illustration by the Russian court photographer. Some of them date from 1916 but permission to publish was only granted on 20th March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Tsar Nicolas II with Albert Thomas, 1878-1932, and Rene Viviani, 1862-1925, at the imperial general headquarters, May 1916, during the First World War, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3864, 24th March 1917. This is one of the last photographs sent to L'Illustration by the Russian court photographer. Some of them date from 1916 but permission to publish was only granted on 20th March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Colonel Nazimov, Commander of the reserve battalion of the Smenovsky regiment, reports to Alexander Kerensky, appointed Minster for War in the newly formed socialist-liberal coalition government in May 1917, photograph by Karl Bulla, 1855-1929, published in L'Illustration no.3877, 23rd June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Prince Georgy Lvov, 1861-1925, president of the Provisional Government, photograph taken in the debating chamber, published in L'Illustration no.3868, 21st April 1917. Lvov was a Russian statesman and the first post-imperial prime minister of Russia, from 15 March to 21 July 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General Vasily Gurko, 1864-1937, chief of staff of the Imperial Russian Army 1916-17, and General Aleksei Brusilov, 1853-1926, Commander of the South West Front, during the Russian Revolution, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3875, 9th June 1917. Gurko was imprisoned and exiled in 1917 by the Russian Provisional Government  for expressing support for the monarchy. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alexander Kerensky, appointed Minster for War in the newly formed socialist-liberal coalition government in May 1917, making a speech to soldiers in the battalion of the Smenovsky Guards before leaving for the front, affirming the necessity of a discipline of iron and resuming the offensive to aid French allies, photograph by Karl Bulla, 1855-1929, published in L'Illustration no.3877, 23rd June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The imperial residence at Tsarskoye Selo, this wing being used as a prison for the deposed emperor and the imperial family after the Revolution of 1917, photograph by Daily Mirror, published in L'Illustration no.3870, 5th May 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Fire at the courthouse in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, 11th or 12th March 1917, during the Russian Revolution, photograph by P Wolkof of Vetchernee Vremia, published in L'Illustration no.3868, 21st April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Grand Duchess Natalia, Countess Brasova, 1880-1952, married in 1911 to Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3864, 24th March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Congress of delegates of Front Line Troops, with Alexander Guchkov, minister of war for the Provisional Government (before Kerensky), explaining the reasons behind his resignation, during the Russian Revolution, in the Duma chamber - the bronze imperial coat of arms has been taken from the rostrum and soldiers and officers take the place of politicians, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3876, 16th June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alexander Kerensky, minister of justice, and the commandant of the imperial palace who guards the former tsar, at Tsarskoye Selo, photograph by Daily Mirror, published in L'Illustration no.3870, 5th May 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Gates of the former imperial palace at Tsarskoye Selo - during the Russian Revolution red fabric covers the crowns and monograms of imperialism, photograph by Daily Mirror, published in L'Illustration no.3870, 5th May 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Pavel Milyukov, 1859-1943, minister of foreign affairs during the Russian Revolution, published in L'Illustration no.3864, 24th March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Grand Duke Krill Vladimirovich, 1876-1938, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3865, 31st March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Nikolay Chkheidze, 1864-1926, Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet and president of the Committee of workers and soldiers during the Russian Revolution, published in L'Illustration no.3865, 31st March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Prince Georgy Lvov, 1861-1925, president of the Provisional Government during the Russian Revolution, published in L'Illustration no.3864, 24th March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Mikhail Rodzianko, 1859-1924, president of the Duma during the Russian Revolution, published in L'Illustration no.3864, 24th March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia, 1878-1918, wearing the uniform of the Cossacks he commanded in Galicia, photograph published full page in L'Illustration no.3864, 24th March 1917. The Grand Duke was brother to Tsar Nicolas II, who gave him the crown when he abdicated on 16th March. However,  Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich publicly declared he would not accept the crown without the support of the Russian people. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Russian troops attending mass on a mountain top after the reading of the manifesto of the new government, in the Serbian mountains of Macedonia during the First World War, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3875, 9th June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Trainee artillerymen in Revolutionary Russia carrying a banner stating 'War for liberty, until victory', photograph published in L'Illustration no.3872, 19th May 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Armed soldiers in the reading room of the Duma, or parliament building, photograph by P Wolkof of Vetchernee Vremia, published in L'Illustration no.3868, 21st April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Soldier stopping and searching civilian on the street in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, during the Russian Revolution, photography by Daily Mirror, published in L'Illustration no.3867, 14th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cannons behind a barricade topped by the red flag in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, during the Russian Revolution, photograph by Daily Mirror, published in L'Illustration no.3867, 14th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Bags of flour ready to be distributed to the poor, outside the Palace of Tauride (seat of the Provisional Government after the February Revolution) in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, during the Russian Revolution, photograph by Daily Mirror, published in L'Illustration no.3867, 14th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Moment when a shot is fired from a window on the Nevsky Prospect, main street in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, during the Russian Revolution, photograph by Daily Mirror, published in L'Illustration no.3867, 14th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Anti-revolutionaries arrested and taken to the  Peter and Paul fortress in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, during the Russian Revolution, photograph by Daily Mirror, published in L'Illustration no.3867, 14th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of General Lavr Kornilov, 1870-1918, Commander of troops in Petrograd, published in L'Illustration no.3865, 31st March 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Portrait of Catherine Brechkovsky, 1844-1934, known as the grandmother of the Revolution, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3865, 31st March 1917. Breshkovsky was given a seat in Aleksandr Kerensky's government after the February Revolution. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Nikolay Chkheidze, 1864-1926, Georgian Social Democrat politician and president of the Executive Committee of the Soviet of Petrograd, making a speech to riflemen at a barracks during the Russian Revolution, photograph published on the front page of L'Illustration, no.3871, 12th May 1917. Chkheidze was Chairman of the Executive Committee of Workers and Soldiers, leader of the Workers' Party and of the opposition to the Provisional Government. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Session of parliament during the Russian Revolution in the Duma chamber - the portrait of Tsar Nicolas II has been removed from its frame and the bronze imperial coat of arms taken from the rostrum and soldiers and officers take the place of politicians, photograph from the front page of L'Illustration no.3867, 14th April 1917. The inset photograph shows a Duma session from 1916 with the former president of the Council Sturmer reading a declaration. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Grand Duke Nikolay Nikolayevich Romanov of Russia, 1856-1929, in the Caucasus, photograph published by L'Illustration no.3865, 31st March 1917. During the February Revolution, the grand duke was in the Caucasus and was appointed supreme commander in chief by the Emperor, an appointment which was cancelled 24 hours later by the new premier, Prince Georgy Lvov. He died in exile in 1929. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Alexander Kerensky, 1881-1970, Minister of War, and general Aleksei Brusilov leave in a car cheered by the crowd, after having led a meeting of the Congress of Delegates of Front line Troops, on the South West Russian Front in Kamianets-Podilskyi, Ukraine. Kerensky is saluting the crowd by raising his hat. Photograph published in L'Illustration no.3878, 30th June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Congress of the Army Delegates of the Front, in the Duma assembly hall at the Palace of Tauride (seat of the Provisional Government after the February Revolution), in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, Russia, resulting in the passing of resolutions affirming that war must be carried out to the end, for peace without annexations, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3876, 16th June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General Congress of Peasants in the People's House, St Petersburg, Russia, with soldiers from the front hailing the peasant delegates, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3876, 16th June 1917. On the balcony on the left is Catherine Brechkovsky, 1844-1934, known as the grandmother of the Revolution, with Vera Fiegner, Mr Avskentiev, president of the Congress, and Viktor Chernov, Minister of Agriculture. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General Leontiev preparing to decorate a soldier, with Russian troops in the background, in the Serbian mountains of Macedonia during the First World War, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3875, 9th June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Marius Moutet, 1876-1968, French Socialist diplomat and colonial adviser, socialist deputy of Rhone, visiting the Russian Front during the First World War, with soldiers and officers of a regiment which he has encouraged to do their duty, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3875, 9th June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Patriotic demonstration and parade of troops during the Russian Revolution, in Red Square, Moscow, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3875, 9th June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Patriotic counter-demonstration responding to the pacifist actions of the supporters of Lenin, with servicemen blinded in the First World War led by a nurse under a banner stating 'War until complete victory. Long live liberty!', photograph published in L'Illustration no.3874, 2nd June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Demonstration by pacifist Lenin supporters, on 1st May a follower of Lenin declared the confiscation of land, the deposition of the Provisional Government and the sovereignty of the Proletariat, photograph by Karl Bulla, 1853-1929, published in L'Illustration no.3874, 2nd June 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General Fyodor Palitzin, 1851-1923, commander of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France, encouraging soldier delegates of the Petrograd Committee, serving in France in the First World War, to work for Russia and for France, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3873, 26th May 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General Fyodor Palitzin, 1851-1923, commander of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France, encouraging soldier delegates standing at ease of the Petrograd Committee, serving in France in the First World War, to work for Russia and for France, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3873, 26th May 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Russian officers and soldiers at the Front in the First World War, swearing an oath of allegiance to the Provisional Government, formed after the February Revolution, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3872, 19th May 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Council of Workers and Soldiers, including, in the front row, Yuri Mikhailovich Steklov (head of Maximalists), Alexander Bogdanov, Skobelev (vice-president), Georgi Plekhanov, Nikolay Chkheidze (president) and Irakli Tsereteli, at the Duma assembly hall in the Palace of Tauride (seat of the Provisional Government after the February Revolution) in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, Russia, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3872, 19th May 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Soldier delegates forming an assembly of over 3,000 members, at the Duma assembly hall in the Palace of Tauride (seat of the Provisional Government after the February Revolution) in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, Russia, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3869, 28th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Soldiers carrying a wreath with the inscription 'Be proud, fallen fighters, a free Russia will never forget you' in gold letters on a red background, at the funeral of Revolutionary fighters in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3869, 28th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The imperial suite at the military headquarters at Mogilev, 1916, with left-right, Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich, 1891-1942, who was involved in the murder of Rasputin, Admiral Nilov, Count Grabbe, Colonel Modvinot, General Narischkin, General Voieikot, Tsar Nicolas II, Count Freedericks, Dolgoroukov, Professor Fedorov, Councillor Yejov (inspector of imperial trains), photograph published in L'Illustration no.3869, 28th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • General Nikolai Lokhvitsky of the Russian Expeditionary Force in France, his general staff and soldiers at the Russian Front in France in the First World War, swearing an oath of allegiance to the Provisional Government, formed in Petrograd, later St Petersburg, after the February Revolution, photograph published in L'Illustration no.3867, 14th April 1917. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Seated Man, painted in Barcelona, June-November 1917, oil painting on canvas, (donation by Pablo Picasso 1970), in the Museu Picasso, an art gallery featuring over 4000 works by Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, in La Ribera, in the Old City of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum opened in 1963 and is housed in 5 adjoining medieval palaces on the Carrer de Montcada. Picture by Manuel Cohen - Further clearances required for reproduction (artist's copyright)
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  • Exhibition in an old reservoir, or large underground water storage tank, at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Water channels, in an underground tunnel at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Water channels, in an underground tunnel at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Water channels, in an underground tunnel at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Rivets on one of the original water channels, in an underground tunnel at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cliff Palace, 1917, photograph, in the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum, in Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma County, Colorado, USA. Cliff Palace, 13th century, is a huge multi-storey Native American Puebloan dwelling, housing 125 people, with 23 kivas and 150 rooms, rediscovered in 1888. It is the largest cliff house in the park, possibly used for social and ceremonial purposes and is thought to be part of a larger community encompassing 60 pueblos and 600 people. It is made from sandstone blocks, mortar and wooden beams and was originally painted with earthen plasters. Mesa Verde is the largest archaeological site in America, with Native Americans inhabiting the area from 7500 BC to 13th century AD. It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Boyau de Londres, a communications trench dug in 1917 to link the Fort de Douaumont to the rear lines, during the Battle of Verdun in World War One, Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Boyau de Londres, a communications trench dug in 1917 to link the Fort de Douaumont to the rear lines, during the Battle of Verdun in World War One, Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Boyau de Londres, a communications trench dug in 1917 to link the Fort de Douaumont to the rear lines, during the Battle of Verdun in World War One, Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Two Parakeets, oil painting on canvas, 1917, by Joaquim Sunyer i de Miro, 1874-1956, from the collection of the Museu National d'Art de Catalunya, in the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Cavall banyegat, made in Barcelona, 1917, pencil drawing on canvas with ochre primer, (donation by Pablo Picasso 1970), in the Museu Picasso, an art gallery featuring over 4000 works by Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, in La Ribera, in the Old City of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. This sketch was made in response to watching a bullfight, and is a precedent to Guernica. The museum opened in 1963 and is housed in 5 adjoining medieval palaces on the Carrer de Montcada. Picture by Manuel Cohen - Further clearances required for reproduction (artist's copyright)
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  • Arlequi, or Harlequin, painted in Barcelona, 1917, oil painting on canvas, (donation by Pablo Picasso 1919), in the Museu Picasso, an art gallery featuring over 4000 works by Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, in La Ribera, in the Old City of Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The museum opened in 1963 and is housed in 5 adjoining medieval palaces on the Carrer de Montcada. Picture by Manuel Cohen - Further clearances required for reproduction (artist's copyright)
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  • Reservoirs, large underground water storage tanks, at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Reservoirs, large underground water storage tanks, at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Gauging room, at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Water channels, in an underground tunnel at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Water channels, in an underground tunnel at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Water channels, in an underground tunnel at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. Seen here is the upper area of the first elevation tank with outer fence and guardhouse, above the gauging room. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Basement levels, with staircases leading to the valves, at MUHBA Casa de l'Aigua or Water House, a water treatment plant built in 1917 by the Compania de Aguas de Barcelona, the municipal water company, to provide clean water to the city, at Trinitat Nova, Nou Barris, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The reinforced concrete building is in catalan Modernist style, designed by Felip Steva i Planas and Joan Sitjes. The site is part of MUHBA, the Museu d'Historia de Barcelona, providing leisure and cultural activities for the local communities. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Pueblo Dancers, painting, 1917, by Crescendo Martinez, d. 1918, Puebloan artist, in the Chapin Mesa Archeological Museum, in Mesa Verde National Park, Montezuma County, Colorado, USA. The dancers are dressed as eagles and the drummers accompanying them played music and sang throughout the public ceremony. Crescendo Martinez is from San Ildefonso Pueblo, New Mexico, and is of the Santa Fe Indian School of Art. Mesa Verde is the largest archaeological site in America, with Native Americans inhabiting the area from 7500 BC to 13th century AD. It is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Russian Orthodox monument, built 1917 by soldiers of the Russian 2nd Special Regiment in memory of their fallen comrades, near the site of the Mourmelon military camp, beside the Russian cemetery, Saint-Hilaire-le-Grand, Marne, Champagne-Ardenne, France. The site honours the 6,100 Russian soldiers killed on French battlefields, in memory of the Franco-Russian military alliance celebrated at the visit of Czar Nicholas II to Champagne in 1896 and 1901. 1,000 Russian soldiers from 2 brigades who fought on the French front in 1916-18 are buried here. An adjoining Orthodox Chapel was designed by Albert Benois and built 1936-37 with funds from the Association du Souvenir du Corps Expeditionnaire Russe. The site is listed as a historic monument. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Boyau de Londres, a communications trench dug in 1917 to link the Fort de Douaumont to the rear lines, during the Battle of Verdun in World War One, Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Boyau de Londres, a communications trench dug in 1917 to link the Fort de Douaumont to the rear lines, during the Battle of Verdun in World War One, Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Boyau de Londres, a communications trench dug in 1917 to link the Fort de Douaumont to the rear lines, during the Battle of Verdun in World War One, Verdun, Meuse, Lorraine, France. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Construction of the Maricel Palace, including a self-portrait of the sculptor on the far right, and next to him the stonemason Antoni Figols, carved stone capital, 1917-20, by Pere Jou, 1891-1964, on the facade of the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Construction of the Maricel Palace, including Miquel Utrillo on the left presenting a map of Maricel to Charles Deering, carved stone capital, 1917-20, by Pere Jou, 1891-1964, on the facade of the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Eggs (1), carved stone capital, 1917-20, by Pere Jou, 1891-1964, on the facade of the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Eggs (2), carved stone capital, 1917-20, by Pere Jou, 1891-1964, on the facade of the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The fox and the bust, carved stone capital, 1917-20, by Pere Jou, 1891-1964, on the facade of the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The female bust is a copy of a capital of the sacristy of the cathedral of Barcelona, and the capital was restored by Pere Jou after it was damaged by a truck in 1960. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The monkey and the puppeteer, from the fable of Tomas de Iriarte, carved stone capital, 1917-20, by Pere Jou, 1891-1964, on the facade of the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
    LC21_SPAIN_MC_0981.jpg
  • The Eggs (1), carved stone capital, 1917-20, by Pere Jou, 1891-1964, on the facade of the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The Eggs (2), carved stone capital, 1917-20, by Pere Jou, 1891-1964, on the facade of the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • America, or Winter, oil painting on wood, from the Four Seasons, 1917-19, by Josep Maria Sert i Badia, 1874-1945, in the Sala Sert of the Casa de la Ciutat, the town hall of Vic, in Catalonia, Spain. The paintings were originally commissioned for the dining room of Arthur Capel in London, then installed in Baron Rothschild's hunting lodge at the Chateau de Laversine in Oise, France. They are on loan from the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Asia, or Spring, detail, oil painting on wood, from the Four Seasons, 1917-19, by Josep Maria Sert i Badia, 1874-1945, in the Sala Sert of the Casa de la Ciutat, the town hall of Vic, in Catalonia, Spain. The paintings were originally commissioned for the dining room of Arthur Capel in London, then installed in Baron Rothschild's hunting lodge at the Chateau de Laversine in Oise, France. They are on loan from the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • America, or Winter, oil painting on wood, from the Four Seasons, 1917-19, by Josep Maria Sert i Badia, 1874-1945, in the Sala Sert of the Casa de la Ciutat, the town hall of Vic, in Catalonia, Spain. On the left is Europe or Autumn, and on the right, Asia or Spring. The paintings were originally commissioned for the dining room of Arthur Capel in London, then installed in Baron Rothschild's hunting lodge at the Chateau de Laversine in Oise, France. They are on loan from the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Grands Moulins de Paris, large flour mills converted into University buildings, on the Quai Panhard-et-Levassor in the Paris Rive Gauche district of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The mills were originally built by  Georges Wybo in 1917-21, and repurposed by  Rudy Ricciotti in 2004-6, to become a campus of the Universite Paris VII-Denis-Diderot. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • The bear and the amateur gardener, with a bear holding a rock over the head of his sleeping friend, after the fable by Jean de la Fontaine, carved stone capital, 1917-20, by Pere Jou, 1891-1964, on the facade of the Palau de Maricel, now the Maricel Museum, inaugurated 1970 and reopened in 2015, in Sitges, Catalonia, Spain. The man with the feet in the bucket resembles Pablo Picasso by Pau Gargallo in 1913. The complex was built 1910-18 by Miquel Utrillo for Charles Deering, converted from a hospital to a residence and gallery to house Deering's collection. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • America, or Winter, oil painting on wood, from the Four Seasons, 1917-19, by Josep Maria Sert i Badia, 1874-1945, in the Sala Sert of the Casa de la Ciutat, the town hall of Vic, in Catalonia, Spain. The paintings were originally commissioned for the dining room of Arthur Capel in London, then installed in Baron Rothschild's hunting lodge at the Chateau de Laversine in Oise, France. They are on loan from the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Asia, or Spring, oil painting on wood, from the Four Seasons, 1917-19, by Josep Maria Sert i Badia, 1874-1945, in the Sala Sert of the Casa de la Ciutat, the town hall of Vic, in Catalonia, Spain. The paintings were originally commissioned for the dining room of Arthur Capel in London, then installed in Baron Rothschild's hunting lodge at the Chateau de Laversine in Oise, France. They are on loan from the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Europe, or Autumn, oil painting on wood, from the Four Seasons, 1917-19, by Josep Maria Sert i Badia, 1874-1945, in the Sala Sert of the Casa de la Ciutat, the town hall of Vic, in Catalonia, Spain. The paintings were originally commissioned for the dining room of Arthur Capel in London, then installed in Baron Rothschild's hunting lodge at the Chateau de Laversine in Oise, France. They are on loan from the Museo Reina Sofia in Madrid. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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  • Jardins Grands Moulins Abbe Pierre, created in 2009 by Ah-Ah Landscaping Agency, and behind, the Grands Moulins de Paris, large flour mills converted into University buildings, on the quai Panhard-et-Levassor in the Paris Rive Gauche district of the 13th arrondissement of Paris, France. The mills were originally built by Georges Wybo in 1917-21, and repurposed by Rudy Ricciotti in 2004-6, to become a campus of the Université Paris VII-Denis-Diderot. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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