Blankenberghe, Belgium   1890s. 

Blankenberge (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈblɑŋkəmbɛrɣə]) is a town and a municipality in the Belgian province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the town of Blankenberge proper and the settlement of Uitkerke.

On 1 December 2011 Blankenberge had a total population of 19,322. The total area of the municipality is 17.41 km², giving apopulation density of 1,110 inhabitants per km².

Like most other Flemish coastal towns, a main characteristic of this one is that it is a national and to a certain extent international seaside resort. 

famous inhabitants —-

• Adolf Eugen Fick, the inventor of the contact lens, who died in Blankenberge in 1901.
• Frans Masereel, Flemish painter and woodcutter born here in 1889.
• Rudi Pillen,^[3] Belgian contemporary painter.
• Brian Vandenbussche, Belgian goalkeeper.
• Pieter Aspe, Belgian writer.

#1 the pier
#2 the pier and shore
#3 entrance to the port
#4 The seashore and Kursaal, (i.e., Cursaal) 

[Kongen og Dronningen, Bispen, Norway] (LOC)

Baby elephant at the zoo

photos from 1890

Wilson A. Bentley first became fascinated with snow during his childhood on a Vermont farm, and he experimented for years with ways to view individual snowflakes in order to study their crystalline structure. He eventually attached a camera to his microscope, and in 1885 he successfully photographed the flakes. This photomicrograph and more than five thousand others supported the belief that no two snowflakes are alike, leading scientists to study his work and publish it in numerous scientific articles and magazines. In 1903 Bentley sent prints of his snowflakes to the Smithsonian, hoping they might be of interest to Secretary Samuel P. Langley

[Isola Borrome (i.e. Isole Borromee), Lake Maggiore, Italy] (LOC)

• Title: The moon
• Creator(s): Campbell, Alfred S.,
• Date Created/Published: Elizabeth, N.J. : A.S. Campbell, c1896.
• Medium: 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.