Czech Collection (page 16)

Stramberk - Czech Republic. The Castle (with its 40m tower - pictured) was founded around 1359, among the wooden houses built on the surrounding terraced hillsides

The Czech Republic - Kralupy nad Vltavou. The Masaryk Bridge (named after Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, the first President of Czechoslovakia) across the Vltava River is being built in the middle distance

Czech Republic - Liberec - New Town

Prague Rooftops
A rooftop view of Prague, at the Charles bridge which separates the old city from the new

Prague Bridge
The ancient Charles bridge over the Vltava separates the old city from the new

Tabor in 17th Century
Founded by Hussite leader Zizka, this was a protestant stronghold during the Hussite wars of the 15th century

Hus Taken to the Stake
Hus, the Czech religious leader is taken to be burned at the stake for heresy

Attempting Clairvoyance
Frederick Marion - real name Josef Kraus - Czech stage magician, attempts clairvoyance on the contents of a tin under the direction of Harry Price

Czech Peasants Dancing
A group of young Czechoslovakian peasants in traditional costumes

Crowd at Marienbad / 1899
The elegant holiday crowd at Marienbad (now Marianske Lazne) in Bohemia (later Czechoslovakia, now Czech Republic)

Emmy Destinn / Aida 1909
EMMY DESTINN Czech opera singer as Aida

Joh. Nep. Czermak
JOHANN NEPOMUK CZERMAK Czech physiologist from Prague, worked in Pesth where he invented the laryngoscope

Czechs Fight Reds
Czech forces under general Gaida fight the Red Army in the Urals

Czechs Aid Kerensky
Czech forces under Alexander Kerensky requisition horses in central Russia, planning to continue resistance to the Red Army : but Kerensky will soon flee to Paris

Czech Leaflets
Czech forces fighting the Red Army distribute propaganda leaflets from a train. Date: 1918

Charles Bridge Tower
View toward the Old Town Bridge Tower on the Old Town side of the Charles Bridge in Prague. One of the most astonishing civil gothic buildings in the world Date: circa 1825

Tyn Church - Prague
A view on part of The Church of Our Lady in front of Tyn - a dominant feature of the Old Town district of Prague and the main church of this area since the 14th century

Anti-Bolshevik Czechs
Anti-Bolshevik Czech troops under the command of Alexander Kerensky requisition horses to fight Leninist forces in Siberia

JAN NERUDA Czech journalist, novelist etc

Lake Czarnistan in the Carpathians, Czechoslovakia
Scenery in the Carpathians -- Lake Czarnistan in the High Tatra mountains of Czechoslovakia

Julius Schulhoff / Postcd
JULIUS SCHULHOFF Czech-Austrian pianist and composer

Edvard Benes
EDVARD BENES Czech statesman, President of the Czech Republic

Polka (Bohemian)
Polka means half-step in Czech, and this step which took first the dance halls and then the ballrooms of Europe by storm, scandalising many, is of Bohemian origin

Czech Lady in Russia
When a Czech aviator is forced to land in the Russian Carpathians she gets a dubious welcome from local peasants who, she discovers, have never seen an aeroplane before

Racial / Czech Peasants
Bohemian peasants in national costume

Racial / Czech Girls C1910
Czech girls in national costume with red headscarves

Label Czech Hotel
The colourful label of the HOTEL SLOVAN at TABOR, Czechoslovakia (as it then was) promises a warm and friendly welcome

Meeting the Rubezahl
Two Bohemian (Czech) children, gathering firewood, encounter the Rubezahl - a mysterious wild man who haunts the mountains

Bohemian Castle
BURG KARLSTEIN - an impressively romantic castle of Bohemia (present-day Czech Republic)

PRAGUE 1930S
A tranquil scene among the steep narrow streets of Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) a few years before the outbreak of World War Two

Jan Kubelik
JAN KUBELIK Czech musician; with his wife and twins

Charles Rudolf Friml
CHARLES RUDOLF FRIML - Czech-American pianist and composer

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