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Engel's market square landscape

Engel's market square landscape
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Market square scene. In the foreground, townspeople and horse-drawn carriages, in the background, Ulrika Eleonora's Church, the main guardhouse and the town hall.
Carl Ludvig Engel's market square landscape from 1816. At the time the landscape was painted, Helsinki was still such a small city that most of the city's residents knew each other by appearance.
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People in the process of moving at Läntinen Heikinkatu 24 (near Mannerheimintie 18). People are loading boxes onto horse-drawn carts in the courtyard.

Demographic trends in Helsinki

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Photographer

Helsinki City museum / Juho Nurmi

Period

1816
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