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Leodis - A Photographic Archive of Leeds

Leeds is a city in England that began as a market town in the Middle Ages, and now has an extensive and well-designed website that offers visitors more than a dozen guided virtual tours, a link to over 5,000 playbills from 1781 to the 1990s, and a large photographic archive of the city. Visitors to the online archive have the opportunity to send free webcards of Leeds' images, and they can also leave comments on the images here as well. Visitors can view the comments by enlarging the selected image to full-size. The guided virtual tours available include "Life in Leeds During the Second World War", which has photos of bomb shelters, buildings damaged by bombs, and VE and VJ day celebrations. Each image is accompanied by an explanatory caption of what is going on in the photo, such as the photo of women preparing ration books in 1939. The caption states that "typical weekly rations for one person were: 4oz bacon per week, 2-4oz tea, 1-8oz cheese, 8oz sugar." Other guided virtual tours include "The Old Pubs of Leeds", "Going Out in Leeds", "Leeds City Centre in the 1950s", and "The Municipal Buildings - A History".
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April 1st, 2011
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April 1st, 2011 at 1:09pm
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April 1st, 2011 at 7:46pm
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