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Ballooning at the exhibition, the pilot was the dane Johannessen who brought up the photographer Oscar Halldin.

AB Separator was the name of the company Alfa Laval who still produce equipment in the same sector.

This was a world’s fair staged in 1897 in Stockholm.

This is very recent, however this does feel like a picture future generations should see.

Uppsala is today not known as a city with trams, but between 1906 and 1953 the city was home to several tram lines.

Ramhäll’s mine was opened after finding iron ore in the area in 1742 and was ran in one form or another until 1975, when it was closed.

Disagreeable as it might be, it was necessary to swallow the bitter pill. Half of Paris was made of people of this sort. Their intentions were not criminal. They would not have hurt a fly as the saying goes. But they were protecting their families, their money, their health, their position, their reputation in the apartment house. To them we were terrorists, and they did not hesitate to say so. They talked about it among themselves, on the doorstep and over the telephone. If only we had not had them to reckon with. But they were worse than the Gestapo.…They would denounce us without giving a second thought.

Context: Amelio Robles Ávila (3 November 1889 – 9 December 1984) was a colonel during the Mexican Revolution. Assigned female at birth, Robles lived openly as a man from age 24 until his death at age 95.

There is very little to go on here, the photo seems to have been taken in the Gothemburg area, possibly at a competition of some sort.

There was very little information about this picture, I didn’t even have the full name of the Major mentioned and had to do some googling for it…

When Bromma airport opened in Stockholm here in Sweden, it was the first land based airport in the city. Other airports like Barkaby in Järfälla outside the city limits existed but were seen as too cumbersome to get access to.

The S-363 was a soviet submarine in the NATO designated whiskey-class.

F2 was a seaplane base for the Swedish Air Force from 1926 to 1949, after 1949 the base was used as a search and rescue base, where the Swedish Air Force stationed it’s Catalina aircraft.

Please enjoy this photo of a car that was converted to run on train tracks on on the Roslagsbanan network.

Ågesta nuclear power plant was the first commercial nuclear power plant in Sweden, it was designed to primarily produce district heating with some electrical power on the side.

This was one of the main public radio broadcast stations in Sweden, if you listen to famous old radio broadcasts from Sweden, it is very likely that they will sign on with the call sign Stockholm-Motala.

Right, I saw how popular the post about the Stockholm metro control room was, so here is another Swedish control room, this time with nuclear energy!

Before John Goodman there was… (:P)

The SAAB 105 was used in the Swedish Air Force under the name Sk60, it was decommissioned from service in 2024.

This was unexpected!

This is the first central control room of the Stockholm Metro, it controlled what is now known as the green line.

Context: https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01-03/photographs-of-men-in-love-exhibition-same-sex-couples-canberra/106164254