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Picture of Edward Banks (1796 - 1851), who was one of the leading figures of the Free City of Hamburg in the mid 19th century, holding the office of Syndicus from 1837 until his death.

Source

Original publication: Original print is entitled: Gedächtnisblätter für W. Lindley von seinen Hamburger Freunden, darunter Ruperti (Memory sheets for W. Lindley from his Hamburg friends, including Ruperti); dated 1852. Published in Hamburg
Immediate source: Reprinted in Hamburg, Deutschland und die Welt, by Percy Ernst Schramm;publ. Hamburg 1943 and 1952 (facing page 161)

Date

1852

Author

Extracted and editted by myself from an old print, which was a composite of about 10 pictures. This picture is not attributed to any author.
(Life time: Unknown, but those involved probably died before 1900, as the print originated in 1852.)

Permission
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Original print is a work over 150 years old and therefore out of copyright. This extract is only 5-10% of the whole, whose subject died in 1851


Other information

Translation of the text on the 1852 print: Memory sheets for W. Lindley from his Hamburg friends, including Ruperti, 1852. Above: The construction of the Hamburg-Bergedorf Railway 1839-42 (the train on a bridge and the Senate proclamation of 1840, including the station concourse, right the before the fire of 1842). - Below: The drainage of the Hammerbrook in the forties. Left: previous state, middle: the pumping station, right: lock. Above, from left to right: Syndicus Banks, H. C. Meyer Jnr. and Lindley's staff. [See Wikipedia article on William Lindley]

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