The Örebro Archives Centre is launching its Topotheque with professional photographic material from the 1920s. It primarily displays images stored in the analogue archive without accompanying information. This allows visitors to enrich the photographs, which provide detailed insights into the landscape and everyday life, with essential information.
Remarkable for the period are the numerous interior shots, which depict clothing, tableware, wallpaper and fabric samples, and many other everyday objects in high quality. In addition to the task of locating the places the photographs were taken, there is also the question of context: Are the people wearing everyday or formal attire? Were they working people or did they belong to an upper income bracket? And perhaps it would also be interesting to discover why these photographs were taken.
By the way, some of the images were still shown upside down when the Topotheque was first published; clocks in Sweden didn‘t run counterclockwise back then either;-) A closer look reveals that the buttoning direction was different for men‘s and women‘s clothing, so some images will be corrected.