Peasants Collection (page 7)

Spring Idyll by Evgenii Stolitsa
Spring Idyll by Evgenii Ivanovich Stolitsa. A young Russian boy and girl chat in a country farmyard. Date: circa 1910s

Spain - Campesinos, Tenerife
Campesinos (Peasants / Countryfolk) in Tenerife, Spain Date: circa 1910s

Alfred Divides his Loaf
Following the Danish invasion of Wessex, King Alfred and his followers retreated to the island of Athelney, Somerset, where they were obliged to seek refuge and sustenance from local peasants

Polish couple from the Okolice Region Date: circa 1910s

A Romanian cottage and occupants Date: 1904

Country Folk on horseback - Romania Date: circa 1899

Montenegrin women eating their breakfast Date: circa 1930s

Polish Insurgents
After the Second Partition (1793) Polish patriots led by Kosciuszko rebel against the occupying forces : many of his supporters are peasants armed only with scythes. Date: 1794

Israel - Peasants laden with cauliflowers
Peasants laden with cauliflowers in Jerusalem - at this stage under Ottoman control. Date: 1905

Macedonian man and his large family
Macedonian regional farmer type and his large family, flock of sheep and their tents. Date: circa 1910s

Greek peasants in Macedonia, a region whos ownership by many different countries over a short time period has left a very confused history! Date: circa 1910s

Austrian Peasant Game
Peasant men of the South Tyrol, Austria, playing a traditional game around a table. The aim is to grab the opponents finger over the half way line on the table! Date: 1930s

Montgolfier Cartoon
Peasants at Gonesse, near Paris, France, attacking and destroying the experimental balloon of the Montgolfier brothers with pitchforks, for being the devils work! Date: 27 August 1783

Italian Harvest Costumes
Italian peasants in their traditional harvest festival costumes. Date: 1930s

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

Austrian Peasant Couple
An attractive young couple, peasants of the Sarn Valley, Austria. Date: 1930s

Hungarian Festival Dance
Peasants in traditional costumes dancing at a Tokaj wine festival, Hungary. Date: 1930s

Street music: Flemish hurdy gurdy player
Flemish street scene showing a hurdy gurdy player performing for some peasants. Date: 17th century

Street music: 17th century hurdy gurdy player
Street scene showing a blind hurdy gurdy player performing in 17th century Holland. Date: 17th century

Peasant Family - Kashmir - India
A beautiful very early photographic postcard showing a peasant Family in Kashmir, Northern India. There are three simple spinning wheels in the foreground

People from the Island of Corfu, Greece Date: circa 1899

German robbers during the Peasants War
A chaotic scene during the Peasants War showing a group of German robbers, some preparing for their next attack whilst others count the loot from a previous haul. 1530s

Music at home - the blind fiddler
A blind fiddler performs for a poor family in their home

John Green, Peasant
JOHN GREEN : portraits of peasants are rare in our files, so this picture of John Green, peasant from Kings Lynn, makes a nice democratic change from kings and generals Date: CIRCA 1818

Racial / Austria / Peasants
Two peasants, one with a feathered headdress Date: circa 1880

Puss in Boots talks to reapers mowing a meadow, persuading them to tell the King that the meadow belongs to his Master. Illustration to a fairytale by Charles Perrault, first published 1697

Mansudae Grand Monument, Pyongyang, North Korea
Depiction of revolutionary peasants and workers, part of the Mansudae Grand Monument, located at Mansu Hill, Pyongyang, capital of North Korea

French peasants WWI
French peasants on their way to work at Arricourt during World War I

Group of Gypsies by the Sweet Waters, Istanbul
Group of Gypsies seated by the Sweet Waters, Constantinople, Turkey

Romanian peasants revolt
The iron hand for the rebels: the Romanian governments prompt action in crushing the peasant revolt. Infantry escorting prisoners through Piatra, Neamtu

Peasant revolt in Romania: types of the agrarian agitators
A page from the Illustrated London News showing the kind of Romanian people purported to be involved in the peasants revolt which began in March 1907

Trabzon, Turkey - Country Life
Milking the cow and a general view of rural life and housing in the country close to Trabzon on the Black Sea coast in north-eastern Turkey. The capital of Trabzon Province

Bulgarian Women in patterned floral dresses
Two Bulgarian Women, wearing their dark hair in long plaits and dressed in long pale patterned dresses, seemingly made from the same fabric

Bulgaria - Varna - Local men and boys
Local Bulgarian Types at Varna, Bulgaria

Winnowing grain in Bulgaria
Winnowing grain in the Bulgarian countryside

Rusyn People - Hungary
Rusyns - an Eastern Slavic ethnic group who speak an Eastern Slavic language (or dialect) known as Rusyn. This appears to be a team working on a railway in the Carpathian Mountain region of Hungary

Preparing and spinning flax - Slovakia
Preparing and spinning flax - Kendertorok Ponikon, Zolyom County, Slovakia - formerly part of the Hungarian Empire. The woman on the right is breaking the flax

Serbian Hemp workers
Rural Serbian Hemp workers

Princess Elisaveta and Prince Carol of Romania
The two eldest children of King Ferdinand and Queen Marie of Romania in 1896, Prince Carol (1893-1953), later King Carol II of Romania and his younger sister Elisabetha (1894-1956)

Peasants seizing potato crop, Ireland
Peasants seize the potato crop of an evicted tenant near Tralee, Kerry, in Ireland. Men, women and children dig for the unharvested potatoes with shovels, spades and their bare hands

Romanian Peasants
At Braila, peasants demonstrate against the government, but their priest does his best to persuade them to disperse

Praying at a Menhir
Though priests deplore such superstitions, many peasants retain allegiance to old gods - women pray before the druidic stones at Montchauvet in the bocage of Normandie

Napoleon Cheered
Napoleons empire is approved by a majority of Frenchpeople - peasants of the Bourbonnais cheer him as he travels through their region

Irish Peasants attacking an Eviction Party, Ireland, 1887
Engraving showing several poor Irish farmers preparing to attack an eviction party with boulders, Ireland, 1887. Absentee landlords evicted tenant farmers who could not pay their rent during

Polish refugees
An exodus of Polish peasants from the Warsaw area of Poland. Around 10 million refugees accompanied the Russian army as it retreated through Galicia

China / Reading & Writing
Chinese peasants are taught to read and write as part of Chairman Maos Great Leap Forward

Armed Police Collect Tax
French Government officials seeking to make an inventory of church property meet resistance from peasants who regard it as an attack on the Church

Countryman and the Snake
THE COUNTRYMAN AND THE SNAKE A charitable man finds a frozen serpent and warms it in front of the fire, but the snake bites him: a wretched creature cannot be raised up

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