Days Gone By

Jul 6 2012
9:33 pm

Fridtjof Nansen (1861-1930) at the age of four, 1865.

Source: National Library of Norway

Posted 11 months ago
#1860s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #fridtjob nansen #norway #scandinavia #history

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Jun 25 2012
5:22 am

S.A. Andree, Knut Fraenkel and Nils Strindberg minutes before the takeoff of their Arctic balloon exploration, Svalbard, Norway, 11 July 1897.

Posted 11 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #s.a. andree #knut fraenkel #nils strindberg #explorer #svalbard #norway #hot air balloon

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Jun 25 2012
2:12 am

Detroit Publishing Co., Salomon August Andrée’s Station at Danskøya, Svalbard, Norway, ca. 1897.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 11 months ago
#1890s #19th century #arctic #history #norway #scandinavia #science station #svalbard #victorian #victorians #vintage #architecture

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Jun 9 2012
9:39 pm

Ethnographer and photographer Roland Bonaparte dressed in (eastern, inland Finnmark) traditional Sámi garb - the gákti - on an expedition to Finnmark, Norway, 1884.

Posted 1 year ago
#1880s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #roland bonaparte #sami #norway #scandinavia

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Jun 8 2012
1:07 pm

Richard Fleischhut, Longyearbyen, Svalbard, Norway, July 1925.

Source: Deutsches Bundesarchiv (German Federal Archive)

Posted 1 year ago
#1920s #svalbard #norway #scandinavia #vintage #history #boats #richard fleischhut

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Jun 5 2012
10:20 pm

Roland Bonaparte, Ivar Samuelsen, Sea Saami (Sami, Sapmi) Man from Finnmark in Norwegian Lapland, 1884.

Posted 1 year ago
#1880s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #portrait #history #saami #sami #native people #roland bonaparte #norway #scandinavia #lapp #lapland

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Mar 18 2012
10:07 pm

Knud Knudsen, Isfjorden seen from Romsdalen, Norway, 1888.

Posted 1 year ago
#1880s #19th century #victorian #vintage #norway #scandinavia #knud knudsen #fjord

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Mar 18 2012
7:32 am

Knud Knudsen, Harvesting grain in Sunnmoere, Norway, ca. 1890.

Posted 1 year ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #harvesting #norway #scandinavia #knud knudsen

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Mar 17 2012
2:37 pm

Knud Knudsen, People at a beach, Norway, 1876.

Posted 1 year ago
#1870s #19th century #victorian #knud knudsen #norway #scandinavia #beach #boat #vintage

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Mar 17 2012
7:04 am

Knud Knudsen, A fair in Nordland County, Norway, 1875-1876.

Source: The Picture Collection, Library of Bergen University, Norway

Posted 1 year ago
#1870s #19th century #victorians #victorian #vintage #knud knudsen #norway #scandinavia

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