Czechoslovakia Collection (page 4)

Czech Republic - Patriotic Gymnastic Display
Czech Republic - An immense patriotic synchronised gymnastic (?) disply by Czech schoolgirls Date: 1938

German University Prague
The entrance doorway to the German University, Prague, Czechoslovakia. Date: 1930s

Bohemian Racial Types
Germanic racial types of Silesia and southern Bohemia taking part in a festival parade. Date: 1930s

Revolution in Prague
Troops from the Prague garrison, wearing the national cockade in their caps, parade the national colours to the crowds, enthusiasic about Czechoslovakias independence. Date: 28 October 1918

Czech Bridesmaids
These bridesmaids, at a village near Prague, Czechoslovakia, made a pretty picture, in their traditional handworked costumes. Date: 1930s

Czech Peasant Dance
Czechoslovakian peasants dancing in traditional costumes. Date: 1930s

Chodenland Women
Women of Chodenland, (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), quietly knitting traditional dark red socks. Date: 1930s

Chodenland Spinners
Women of Chodenland, (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), spinning flax at their humming spinning wheels, singing folk songs as they spin in their colourful red dresses. Date: 1930s

Chodenland Girl Spinner
A girl of Chodenland, (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), spinning flax wrapped around a distaff, which is always tied around a ribbon embroidered with many colours. Date: 1930s

Czech Sokoln Brass Band
Men of the Sokoln (Czech) brass band, marching through Prague, Czechoslovakia, for the opening of the Slet. Every year the Sokol band opens a bigger athletics ceremony. Date: 1930s

Magyar Equestrian
A Magyar man in traditional costume, on horseback. 700, 000 Magyars came into the union of Slovakia and Bohemia (Czechoslovakia) in 1918. Date: 1930s

Czech Peasant Musician
A Czech peasant plays a large wind instrument in a field at harvest time. Date: 1930s

Prague Fruit Seller
A peasant girl selling fruit and vegetables on a stall in Prague, Czechoslovakia. Date: 1930s

Slovak Mother & Child
A young Slovakian mother and child in traditional dress. The Slovaks are a farming people who speak a different language than the Czechs. Date: 1930s

Chodenland Costumes
Men and women of Chodenland (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), with their lovely traditional costumes of floral embroidery against a dark background and typical dark silk head-dresses. Date: 1930s

French poster warning against Communism. They want to destroy the army... remember Budapest, Berlin, Prague, Dantzig... 1940s

Tomas Masaryk, Czech President, arriving in Prague
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia

Tomas Masaryk, Czech President, signing oath of faith
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia

Vaclav Klofac, Czechoslovak politician
Vaclav Jaroslav Klofac (1868-1942), Czechoslovak politician, one of the founders of the Czech National Social Party. He was Minister of Defence of Czechoslovakia from 1918-1920. Date: circa 1920s

Tomas Masaryk, Czech President
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk (1850-1937), Austro-Hungarian and Czechoslovak politician, founder and first President of Czechoslovakia. Date: circa 1918

Czech politicians, Old Town Square, Prague
Czech politicians taking the ceremonial oath of the Czechoslovak forces, in Old Town Square, Prague. From left to right they are: Udrzal, Scheiner, Klofac, Habrman. 8 November 1918

Prague - The Church of Our Lady before Tyn
Czech Republic - Prague - The Church of Our Lady before Tyn and the Old Town Square. Date: 1912

Edvard Benes at Topolcianky Chateau
Edvard Benes (1884 1948), leader of the Czechoslovak independence movement, Minister of Foreign Affairs and the second President of Czechoslovakia (on right)

Czech Troops - Bastille Day Parade, Paris, France
Parade of the Czechoslovakian flag in the 4th year of the start of the 1st World War on the 14th July Bastille Day Parade - Allied Parade. Date: 1918

The Czech Airforce
An airfield, crammed with the planes of the Czech Airforce. Date: circa 1920s

Olympics / 1920 / Football
Football match between Belgium and Czechoslovakia: tossing the coin Date: 1920

Recognition of Czechoslovakia 1918
A letter from the French Minister of Foreign Affairs, Stephen Pichon, to the General Secretary of the Czech National Council, Edouard Benes, recognising Czechoslovakia as an indepenedent state

Masaryk arrives in Prague 1918
Thomas Masaryk, the philosopher and politician who did much to persuade the world that Czechoslovakia should gain independence following the end of World War I, arrives in Prague

Czechoslovak legion returns to Prague 1918
A Czechoslovak regiment returns from fighting in France at the end of World war I. Volunteer Czechs and Slovaks fought on several fronts during the war

Czechoslovak legions in Prague 1918
Czech and Slovak volunteer forces returning from fighting on the western front at the end of World War I. They had formed regiments under the command of the French army

Winter Sports with Thomas Cook & Son
Cover illustration for Winter Sports in France, Italy, Austria, Czechoslovakia, Norway, Sweden and Canada, under the management of Thomas Cook & Son Ltd

Czech Republic - 7th All Sokol Rally in Prague
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Skryje - Czechoslovakia

Patriotic postcard - Czechoslovakia
A patriotic postcard from Czechoslovakia, possibly published to mark the end of the First World war and the creation of Czechoslovakia out of the remnants of the Austro-Hungarian Empire

Building project in Czechoslovakia
A housing project in Czechoslovakia - the whole community is seemingly getting involved in the construction project. To the left is a warning sign in Czech and German

Chudoba (Chudobin) - Poland, close to the border with Czechoslovakia

Smichov - Czech Republic. The Ringhoffer factory (visible in the top right-hand corner of this card), founded in 1852 by railway magnate Baron Franz Ringhoffer (1817-1873)

Czech Republic - Promoting Sokol Rally 1920s
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Vrbno pod Pradedem - Czech Republic
Vrbno pod Pradedem (Wurbenthal) is a town in the Moravian-Silesian Region, Czech Republic. It is located on the Opava River

Czech Republic - Sokol Rally in Prague
A rally to promoting public exercise as a way to stimulate national self importance (through organised gymnastic and athletic demonstrations - usually mass-participation)

Young woman in stripy dress
Head and shoulders photograph of a young woman in a stripy dress or blouse. She is probably from South Moravia (now in Czechoslovakia)

Young man with car
A young man poses for his photograph perching on the front of a car. He is probably from Vienna or South Moravia (now in Czechoslovakia)

Mother and two daughters of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
A mother and her two daughters pose for their photograph. Each girl has a hoop and stick, a popular game at the time. They are from the settlement of Kostel (also known as Podivin) in South Moravia

Mother and two children of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
A mother and her two children pose for their photograph on a wooden bench. The girl on the left is wearing a sailor dress

Young woman in sailor dress
A young woman poses for her photograph in a sailor style dress, sitting on a table. She is probably from South Moravia (now in Czechoslovakia)

Couple posing in Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia
A couple pose for their photograph in the spa town of Marianske Lazne, Czechoslovakia. Behind them is the famous colonnade with its corinthian columns

Family group from Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
A family group from the settlement of Kostel (also known as Podivin) in South Moravia, now in Czechoslovakia. The grandfather is on the left wearing a trilby hat

Little girl of Kostel (Podivin), Moravia
A little girl in a garden or back yard with her hoop and stick, a popular game at the time. She is from the settlement of Kostel (also known as Podivin) in South Moravia, now in Czechoslovakia

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