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Hardcover. Condition: Good- to fine condition. Original photograph(s). Oblong Octavo. 21 plates of photographs (3 1/4 x 5 - 4 3/8 x 5 3/8"). Orange cloth, string-bound album with brown buckram plates and relief lettering on cover. This collection of photographs depicts Berlin monuments and architecture postwar, taken before and after World War II. Opening with a photograph of the restored Brandenburg Gate, the following fifteen of the photographs show the Chancellery, an air shelter, Hitler's bunker in the Chancellery, the Propaganda Ministry, two of the Kaiserhof, two the Brandenburg Gate, two juxtaposing the untouched and the bombed Reichstag, the Berlin Dome and the cathedral, the Berlin castle intact and bombed, the famous boulevard Unter den Linden, the university, the State Opera, City Hall, the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, and the Alexander Square, all with photos before and after the bombing, the Hotel Fürstenhof, the Potsdam Square, and the Sport Palace. Captions in English and German. Binding with very light wear but buckram with some scuffing and relief lettering with L in Berlin missing and B with bottom chipped. Some chipping of colored parts in r and i. Album in good-, interior and photographs in near fine condition.