Finland Collection

Poster advertising Finland, land of romance. A steamship cruises through tranquil waters

The Personification of Finland (Suomi)
The Female Personification of Finland (Suomi), holding aloft the National Flag over the sun rising across the Finnish lakes

Finland - Helsinki (Helsingfors) - view over the rocks toward the bay. Date: 1935

Cartoon Re Finland War
Finland defends itself valiantly against the Soviet invasion

Soviet Air Attack
Finland : Soviet aircraft attack a Finnish supply train of elk-drawn sledges : the Finnish troops themselves are on skis

Mannerheim line WWII
Lieutenant Platan, an officer from Helsinki in command of this sector, points forward into no mans land, explaining Finnish strategy during World War II in Finland

Young peasant woman in a wood, Finland. Date: 1922

Parma was a four-masted steel-hulled barque which was built in 1902 as Arrow for the Anglo-American Oil Co Ltd, London. In 1912 she was sold to F. Laeisz, Hamburg, Germany

Helsinki, Finland - Central Railway Station
Helsinki Central railway station (Helsingin paarautatieasema), Finland. Designed in fine Art Deco style by Eliel Saarinen. Date: circa 1920s

SS Oberon - Finland Steamship Company
SS Oberon of the Finland Steamship Company - weekly sailings from Helsingfors (Helsinki) to Hull, England Date: circa 1910s

Ski troops in Finland WWII
Ski troops patrolling in Finland during World War II

Helsinki Olympics - Gymnasts
Three female gymnasts used as the subject for a promotional card for the Helsinki Olympic Games of 1952. Date: 1952

Map / Scandinavia 1539
Map of Norway, Finland, Sweden and Denmark

Laplanders and Reindeer
A Lapland man and woman with their two children, reindeer and dog, outside their tepee

Finnish Canal
A steamboat negotiates a series of locks on the Saima Canal, near Palli. The figures give some idea of the size of the construction

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II and the Tsarevich in Finalnd
Russia - Tsar Nicholas II and his son (Tsarevich Alexei Nikolaevich) walking on the shores of the Fjords, Finland. Date: circa 1909

Russia - Tsar Nicholas II aboard L'Etendard, in Finland
Tsar Nicholas II, aboard L'Etendard, in the Fjords, Finland, tasting the sailors food. Date: circa 1910

Tsar Alexander III - Emperor of Russia
Tsar Alexander III (1845-1894) - Emperor of Russia, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Finland from 13 March 1881 until his death in 1894. Date: circa 1890

Pyynikki - a district and nature reserve in Tampere, Finland
Pyynikki (Pynike) - a district and a nature reserve in Tampere, Finland, located in the Pyynikinharju ridge, between the city center

Sigismund III Vasa (1566-1632). Engraving, 1840
Sigismund III Vasa (1566-1632) or Sigismund III of Poland. King of Poland (1587-1632) and Sweden (1592-1599), Grand Duke of Lithuania and monarch of the united Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth

Finnish Gymnasts
A team of female gymnasts from Finland, touring the UK with a gymnastic display. Date: 1933

Sami People - Early Photograph
The Sami people, (also known as Lapps, although this term is considered derogatory) are the indigenous people of northern Europe inhabiting Sapmi, which today encompasses parts of northern Sweden

Finns or Finnish people from Finland
Finns or Finnish people in traditional costume, Finland. Illustration from Andrew Swintons Travels into Norway, Denmark and Russia, 1792

Ships in ice-bound harbour, Helsinki, Finland
Ships in the ice-bound harbour, Helsinki, Finland. Date: 1926

Peasant men playing a game in a field, Finland. Involving a human hobby-horse, it is similar to the Russian game of Little Towns, using small cylindrical pieces of wood. Date: 1922

Couple sweeping a street, Helsingfors, Finland
Couple sweeping a street in Helsingfors (Helsinki), Finland, one of their civic duties. Date: 1922

Interior of a peasant cottage, Finland, showing the warmest place in the home, with the stove reaching from floor to ceiling. Date: 1922

Peasant women burning forest debris, Finland
Peasant women burning forest debris in order to clear the ground, Finland. Date: 1922

Fall / Finnish spitz Fenks Finsie
Finnish Spitz Fenks Finsie owned by Lady Kitty Ritson Date: 1934

Enontekis at source of the Muonio River, Finland
Enontekis (Enontekio) at the source of the Muonio River, Finland, showing the Ministers House, the Church, and the Warehouses of the Lapps and Merchants of Tornea. 1819

Crown Prince of Sweden meeting Emperor of Russia
The Crown Prince of Sweden meeting the Emperor of Russia at Abo (Turku, now in Finland). Probably at the time of the Treaty of Abo, marking the end of the Russo-Swedish War (1741-1743). 18th century

HMS Campbell, destroyer and flotilla leader, Turku, Finland
HMS Campbell, D60 destroyer and flotilla leader, at the Aura River dockside, Turku, Finland. Date: 1932

LENIN AT PETROGRAD 1917
Lenin, just arrived from Finland, addresses the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party at Petrograd, calling for an armed uprising. Stalin is also present. Date: 23 October 1917

FINN / RUSS BAYONET MELEE
Finland : a bayonet melee between Finns and Russians in the snow - both sides in white uniforms, which must make it difficult to distinguish friend from foe ! Date: January 1940

Russian Finns, hand to hand
Finland : a fierce hand-to- hand combat between Finns and Russians in the snow : the Soviet troops locate their enemy by the fires they light against the extreme cold Date: December 1939

Finland - Turku - The Turku Art Museum. Date: 1912

Morane-Soulnier Ms-50C Parasol Finnish Airforce 2G6 Park?
Morane-Soulnier Ms-50C Parasol Finnish Airforce 2G6 Parked in Snow

First British Aerospace ATP, G-MATP, at Rovaniemi, Finland
The first British Aerospace ATP, G-MATP, at Rovaniemi, Finland, during cold weather trials

The Cleveland Mobile Canteen (patent no. 5783) for Finland
The Cleveland Mobile Canteen (patent no. 5783) designed specifically for Finland. Date: circa 1938

Farm tools. Wooden spade and wodden potato hoe. The National Museum of Finland. Helsinki

Clothes perhaps of the Viking Age. Reconstruction. Finland
Clothes perhaps of the Viking Age. Reconstruction of a female costume based on the findings in the tombs of the Eura cemetery, Finland. 12th century. National Museum of Finland. Helsinki

Prehistory. Finland. Pottery of the Iron Age
Prehistory. Finland. Europe. Pottery of the Iron Age. The National Museum of Finland. Helsinki

Old pharmacy. Reproduction of an ancient laboratory. Pharmac
old pharmacy. reproduction of an ancient laboratory where drugs are produced for marketing. Pharmacy Museum. Turku. Finland

Imjarvi, Finland 1970
Woodman Aarno Heinonen and farmer Esko Viljo, skiing, see a domed UFO land so near I could have touched it with my ski-stick : an alien entity appears in a light beam

Bridge from Haparanda to Tornio, Sweden-Finland
Wooden bridge from Haparanda (Sweden) to Tornio (Finland). Date: circa 1905

Turku (Abo) Lutheran Cathedral, Finland
Turku (Abo) Lutheran Cathedral is the Mother Church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland and was consecrated in 1300. Date: circa 1920

Poster, Finnish Railways, Finland. circa 1950s

The National Museum of Finland. Helsinki. Inside

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