Images of Bergen

Norway's first commercial computer, an #IBM650 dubbed #EMMA (Elektronisk MateMAtikk-regnemaskin), came to #Bergen in 1958, and was delivered to the Geophysical Institute at #UiB.

Input to EMMA was through punch cards to a memory of 2000 words on a rotating magnetic drum, and it could do 1000 additions or 60 multiplications per second. EMMA was famously used to calculate taxes for the Norwegian population from 1958 to 1963, as well as scientific calculations for the university.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-435-122.html
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New friends are to be made, even in the summer holidays of 1954.

Okay, so this image is technically from an island just outside of #Bergen – #Hanøy – but it was too good to give up.

Photo by Edwood Christensen, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-ec-014-018k.html
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Sandviken, late around 1919.

The building to the right is "Slaktehuset", the first municipal butcher house finished around the time when this photo was made – as a way to regulate safe and hygenic treatment of raw meat. The building on the top of the hill is Rothaugen school, still the city center school for 13-15 year old.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of #Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-n-505-045.html
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Gamlehaugen (The Old Hill), the #RoyalCastle in #Bergen, sometime in the 30s.

Originally built as a family home for Christian Michelsen, the first prime minister of the modern independent #Norway. The reason he got this built in 1901 – which at the time was in #Fana municipality, bordering Bergen – was as a protest against the high local tax rate of Bergen municipality. 14% vs. 4% was apparently enough to drive even a Bergen patriot out of the city.

When he died in 1925, the property was given to the state on the condition of it being kept well-maintainted. It has since been the Royal #Castle when the family is in town.

In 1972 Fana municipality was made part of the larger Bergen municipality.

Photo by Atelier KK, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-kk-pk-3211.html
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Students moving their chairs and belongings from the old study rooms in the #Bergen Museum to the newly erected University Library in 1961.

Photo by Bergens Tidende, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bs-fol-00644-072.html
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RO og fred. Slowing down the pace a little for July. Have a good summer, with or without sporfs. Here from Tveitevannet in #Bergen in the early 1900s. Photo by Lauritz Johan Bekker Larsen, via University of Bergen Library: https://marcus.uib.no/instance/photograph/ubb-bros-02039.html #Norway #Norge #NorskPix #Historical #BlackAndWhitePhotography