Scandinavia Gallery

The Personification of Finland (Suomi)

The Female Personification of Finland (Suomi), holding aloft the National Flag over the sun rising across the Finnish lakes. The Finnish Lakeland or Finnish lake district is the largest of the four landscape regions into which the geography of Finland is divided. Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Drottningholm Palace, Stockholm, Uppland, Sweden

View of Drottningholm Palace and part of the Park, in Stockholm County, Uppland, Sweden, with a fountain in the foreground. The palace was built in the late 16th century and is the private residence of the Swedish royal family

© Mary Evans Picture Library/Hubertus Kanus

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British and German boy scouts at camp, Denmark

British and German boy scouts at camp in Copenhagen, Denmark, making a kitchen rack for pots and pans. They were taking part in an international Jamborette arranged by the Danish Boy Scout Movement, involving scouts from twelve different countries: Denmark, England, Scotland, Austria, Holland, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Germany, Belgium, Norway and Sweden. A few American scouts also took part. Date: 1956

© The Scout Association / Mary Evans