Folk Collection (page 5)

Progressive Whist Score Card. Date: circa 1900s

French Countryfolk and their Pigs - the caption reads: " The campaign to promote repopulation has its effect in the region." !! Date: circa 1920s

Spanish Children sing and play music - kitsch postcard Date: circa 1903

Bund of Shiomisaki at Mogi, Nagasaki, Japan
Local folk fishing, swimming and relaxing at the Bund of Shiomisaki at Mogi, Nagasaki, Japan. Date: circa 1910s

Duke and Duchess of York - Austrian Folk Dance Performance
Albert, Duke of York (later King George VI 1895-1952) and Elizabeth, Duchess of York (later Elizabeth, the Queen Mother 1900-2002)

Hairy children of Pedro Gonzalez
Two hairy children of Pedro Gonzalez (Petrus Gonsalvus), born in 1537, who suffered from hypertrichosis, and his French wife who did not have the condition

Pedro Gonzalez, the hairy man
Pedro Gonzalez, (also spelt Gonsalvus), 16th century noble born hairy man, (flourished 1582) and his French wife of " outstanding beauty". circa 1582

Little Folk Misfitz - Where are you going to my pretty maid. circa 1910

Tabriz Prince Baba Bar Ischaja Mualim Date: circa 1903

Evert Taube statue, Goteborg, Sweden
Statue of Evert Axel Taube, Swedish author, artist, composer and singer (1890-1976) with the four-mast barque Viking in the background, in Goteborg (Gothenburg), Vastergotland, Sweden

Fairy checking her blonde hair amid the flowers
A glamourous fairy sat atop a daisy, checks her flowing blonde tresses in a golden hand mirror. Watercolour painting (set in an attractive decorative border) by Malcom Greensmith

Folk Dancers in Wembley Stadium - Festival of Youth Date: 1937

Victorian Ballerina in folk costume. circa 1850

Hairy Folk of Burma
A hairy woman and her son, from Burma Date: 1887

Wind Elves teasing a child
Wind Elves tease a child by blowing the blackberries out of her reach. Date: 1917

Mermaid of Zennor wood carving, Zennor Church, Cornwall
A wood carving of a mermaid on the end of a pew in Zennor Church, near St Ives, Cornwall. She is known as the Mermaid of Zennor and is depicted with long flowing hair

Uighurs dancing, Xinjiang, north west China
Uighurs performing their national dance, Xinjiang, north west China. Date: 1953

Tawaraya Sotatsu (17th c. ). Carriage of Prince Genji
Tawaraya Sotatsu (17th c.). Carriage of Prince Genji. Illustration from the book Genji Monogatari Emaki (The Tale of Genji) by Murasaki Shikibu. Japanese art. Momoyama period. Painting

Romanian Pleasure Wheel
Simple Romanian Pleasure Wheel at a country fair. The postcard caption translates as: Party in the Country. Not quite the London Eye... Date: circa 1900

Folk in the traditional costume of Alsace Lorraine Date: circa 1910s

A Sydney Larrikin. Larrikinism is the name given to the Australian folk tradition of irreverence, mockery of authority and disregard for rigid norms of propriety

Ilya Muromets - Elijah of Murom on horseback
Ilya Muromets (Elijah of Murom) - a Kievan Rus epic hero. He is celebrated in numerous byliny (folk epic poems). Along with Dobrynya Nikitich

Prince Khan draws the portrait of the beautiful girl he has
Prince Khans Dream. Prince Khan draws the portrait of the beautiful girl he has seen in his dream

Old Cheese Press
An ancient stone cheese press, outside the Folk Museum at Edzell, in Glen Esk, Angus, Scotland. Date: 1950s

Russian Dancing
Russian soldiers dancing a traditional Cossack folk dance, called the Hopak (or Gopak), which originates from the Ukraine. circa 1910s

FAIRY FOLK
Fairy folk by an old gnarled tree

Swedish Nisse / Svenska
A Swedish Nisse helps himself to the millers flour Date: 1882

Republic of Kosovo - Traditional costume and dancing in the countryside

Fairy collects berries in the evening light
A fairy clad in greens, collects dark berries in a sack. Painting by Malcolm Greensmith

The Ashanti War (1873-74) - Ashanti War Dance
War dance of the Ashanti men folk. British forces engaged the Ashanti people in battle for possession of the coastline of West Africa

Actors performing in The Land of Hearts Desire
Miss Winifred Fraser, as Maire Bruin, and Miss Dorothy Paget, as a fairy child, performing in The Land of Hearts Desire, by William Butler Yeats. Date: 1894

Cottage interior, Skansen open air museum, Sweden
Cottage interior from Bollnas, Halsingland, at the Skansen open air museum, Sweden. Date: circa 1920

A Fairy Serenade - Fairy Troubadour atop a mushroom
A Fairy Serenade - A Fairy Troubadour atop a mushroom belting out some love songs for his girl... Date: 1920s

Folk dancing in Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France
Piper accompanying folk dancers in Duras, Lot-et-Garonne, France. circa 1969

Sweden - Church people at Leksand
Church-going folk at Leksand, a locality and the seat of Leksand Municipality in Dalarna County, Sweden. Date: circa 1902

Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero
Rob Roy MacGregor (1671-1734), Scottish outlaw and folk hero, with his tartan, coat of arms, badge and slogan. Date: circa 1905

Dalecarlian peasant girl, Sweden
Dalecarlian peasant girl knitting, Dalecarlia (Dalarna), Sweden. 1883

Yosyp Stadnyk - Ukranian Theatre director and actor
Yosyp Stadnyk (1876-1954) - Theatre director and actor. Stadnyk played over 100 roles, mostly character roles in a realist style, in plays by Mykhailo Starytsky, Marko Kropyvnytsky

Austrian Musical Trio - Original Wiener Schrammeln. Schrammelmusik is a style of Viennese folk music originating in the late nineteenth century and still performed in present-day Austria

Local Folk at Volendam, The Netherlands
The Netherlands - Local Folk at Volendam, a town in North Holland in the municipality of Edam-Volendam. circa 1910s

Norway - Wooden house at the Norwegian Folk Museum
Norway - Traditional wooden house at the Norwegian Folk Museum - The Telemark Museum - located in Kleiva in the older part of Skien, Norway. Date: 1933

Mottos - Cat in Cake Interval - B/W An Interval. Cat in Cake Young Folk Mottoes 6. Part of Box 134 Boswell Collection - Mottos. Date: circa 1895

Home of William Tell in Burglen, Switzerland
Engraving depicting the home of William Tell, folk hero of Switzerland in the 14th century, in Burglen

Carnival of Venice. Masks. Italy

Joan of Arc (1412-1431). Folk heroine of France and a Roman
Joan of Arc or The Maid of Orleans. Folk heroine of France and a Roman Catholic saint. She led the French army to several important victories against England during the Hundred Years War

Bridegrooms costume from Parkano. Knee breeches. 18th centu
Knee breeches belonged to the male flok costume in the 18th century. They were made of chamois, wadmal, broadcloth or linen

House from Sarkoz region. 19th century. Hungary
Interior of a house from the Sarkoz region. Second half of 19th century. Museum of Ethnography. Budapest. Hungary

House from Orseg region. 19th century. Hungary
Interior of a house from the Orseg region. Early 19th century. Museum of Ethnography. Budapest. Hungary

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