Reminder that Buenos Aires was once known as the Paris of South America.
A thread of colorized images from the early 20th century 🧵
1. Constitución railway station, 1900
See @argentinaacolor for many more from this era!
2. Florida Street, 1927
3. Diagonal Norte, 1936
4. Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires Province), 1920s
5. The Congress of the Argentine Nation, 1932
6. Mar del Plata (Buenos Aires Province), 1934
7. The Bencich Building, c.1935
8. The Mihanovich building, c.1930
9. The Boston Bank building on Avenida Roque Sáenz Peña, c.1930
10. Bosques de Palermo, c.1930
11. Avenida de Mayo looking towards Congress, 1918
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