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Street scene in Wachau valley, AustriaStreet scene in a village in the Wachau valley, Lower Austria, with a woman and two girls wearing national costume. Date: 1962
Ljungby HornSwedish folk tale Date: circa 1902
Fairy Tales from Many Lands: The Fairy Lizard
Tales from Many Lands: Marya and the Magic Doll
Tales from Many Lands: The Brave Little Man
Village dance
People at a church parade, AustriaA group of people in national costume taking part in a church parade in a village in Austria. This is either before or after the actual parade
Out of the wilderness A folk festival of the New Salem years of Lincoln. Poster showing a book and a stovepipe hat. Date between 1939 and 1943
A 3 act Yiddish folk comedy Dus groise Gevins (The 200, 000) by Sholem Aleichem. Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of Dus Groise Gevins at Memorial High School, Roxbury, Mass
Rural folk doing the Bourr饠D Auvergne danceRural folk doing the Bourr?D Auvergne, is a traditional dance that is danced in couples, or four (two couples, appointed quadrette)
Turkey - Venerable Turks surrounded by postage stampsTurkey - Venerable Turks (Anatolian Farm workers - now retired!) surrounded by Turkish postage stamps Date: circa 1903
Jacob Litts production of Caleb West a dramatization of F. Hopkinson Smiths beautiful story of New England sea-folk by Michael Morton. Date c1900
Spring Idyll by Evgenii StolitsaSpring Idyll by Evgenii Ivanovich Stolitsa. A young Russian boy and girl chat in a country farmyard. Date: circa 1910s
Romanian women from CampulungA group of Romanian women from Campulung (or Cimpulung) - a city in the Arges County, Wallachia, Romania Date: circa 1905
Polish couple from the Okolice Region Date: circa 1910s
A Romanian cottage and occupants Date: 1904
Crossing the Danube by Ox cart - RomaniaScene on the Upper Danube River above the bridge, close to Galati, Romania. Country folk cross the water in an ox cart Date: circa 1899
Country Folk on horseback - Romania Date: circa 1899
Tibetan Family in traditional costume Date: circa 1910s
Lady in traditional Romanian costumeLady in traditional Romanian folk costume Date: circa 1895
A pair of Romanian GirlsA pair of jolly Romanian country girls in traditional costume. Both wear dresses of wonderfully-patterned fabric. Date: circa 1902
Italy - Siena - Local country folk in an ox carriageItaly - Siena - a beautiful postcard depicting local Sienese country folk in an ox carriage. Date: circa 1908
German Folk Costume - Freiberg RegionGerman Folk Costume - Markgrafler, Freiberg Region - note the spectacular headdress. Date: circa 1910s
Busy street in Vienna, Austria
Italian Rustic Types - Southern Italy / Sicily Date: circa 1910
Albanian Woman in Folk CostumeA fine looking Albanian Woman in traditional Folk Costume Date: 1919
The ScarecrowA young girl talks about the perfect man for marriage - one who can support her as well as the scarecrow! She also extols the virtues of the scarecrow to frighten away the crows ! Date: circa 1908
Norwegian ChurchA Stave Church in the Norwegian Folk Museum at Bygdoy, Oslo, Norway. Date: 12th century
Macedonian women weaving Date: circa 1913
A Saltner from Merano, ItalySince in the earliest paradise on record poor human nature found the plucking of forbidden fruit an irresistible temptation
Italy - Pretty Italian girl playing tamborine and having a dance Date: circa 1901
Oak Apple DayGrovely, Grovely, Grovely ! OAK APPLE DAY at Wishford, Wiltshire, England. Oak branches are traditionally collected from Grovely Wood, as a right of the common folk. Date: 29 May
Chodenland SpinnersWomen of Chodenland, (Bohemia, Czechoslovakia), spinning flax at their humming spinning wheels, singing folk songs as they spin in their colourful red dresses. Date: 1930s
Blaise Castle House, near Bristol, Gloucestershire, England; a late 18th century mansion, which now houses a folk museum which opened to the public in 1949. Date: late 18th century
Thatched DairyThis thatched dairy, at Blaise Castle House Folk Museum, Bristol, England, was designed in 1811 by John Nash. Date: built 1811
St. Fagans Castle, near Cardiff, Wales, is a 16th century manor house on the site of a 13th century fortress. In 1948 it became a Welsh folk museum. Date: 16th century
York Folk MuseumA re-created early 19th century cobbled street scene, with coach and dummy horseman outside a haberdashery. York Folk Museum, York, Yorkshire, England. Date: 19th century (re-enactment)
Old Folk and BibleAn old Swedish couple sit together while he reads from the Good Book. Date: 1901
Candas - Somme Region - Rue de BeauvalCandas - Somme Region, Picardie, Northern France. Rue de Beauval. Date: circa 1910s
Retaliation, or the cudgeller caughtA cudgeller is reprimanded by three angry folk, who surround him and wave their cudgels frantically. Date: 18th Century
People from the Island of Corfu, Greece Date: circa 1899
The trio - Music at homeThree men make music in a rustic, domestic setting
Doctor M W Locke in actionDoctor Mahlon William Locke (1880-1942) - the famous foot doctor of Williamsburg, Ontario, Canada performing his twist on another patient
Bielefeld, Germany - Old Peoples HomeBielefeld, Germany - Retirement Home Date: 1909
Gruner Wald Hospice / Rest HomeThe Green Forest Hospice / Christian Rest Home (Hospiz Gruner Wald) at Bad Herrenalb - Black Forest, Germany Date: circa 1920s
Women dedicated to the worship of KhandobaKhandoba, also known as Khanderao, is a Hindu folk deity, worshipped by the people of Maharashtra in India. The worship of Khandoba developed during the 9th/10th centuries from a folk deity into a
French & Swiss WomenWomen of Strasbourg & a woman from Basle, Switzerland. Largely regional or National costumes but with ruffs (by this date were no longer fashionable). Date: 1644