Portrait of a Samoan girl (1890 - 1910). My restoration and colorization of the original image by Thomas Andrew in the Museum of New Zealand archive. The girl is wearing an elaborate traditional Lavalava (also known as an 'ie, short for 'ie lavalava, an article of daily clothing traditionally worn by Polynesians and other Oceanic peoples) made of Polynesian barkcloth.
The Hurtigruten ship S/S Sigurd Jarl photographed by Anders B. Wilse in 1905. The 60.5 x 8.9 x 4.5 m Sigurd Jarl was built in 1894 by Akers Mekaniske Verksted A/S (Kristiania/Oslo) for Nordenfjeldske Damskibsselskab, Trondheim. She was sunk on April 23, 1940, in a German air raid close to Molde The wreck was salvaged, but it would have been too costly to repair the ship, which was scrapped in 1947.
My colorization of the original image in the Norwegian Maritime Museum archive.
These Helsinki ladies, photographed in 1909, were not not suffragettes - after all, already in 1906 universal and equal suffrage had been achieved in Finland. No, the ladies were "demonstrating" on behalf of the Helsinki city gasworks, which wanted people to know that "Gas is cheaper than electricity". (The text is in Swedish, as this ad targeted the Swedish speaking population in Helsinki). The use of gas in kitchen stowes became more widespread in the early 1910s.
Finnish stallion Primus photographed in Sippola (Finland) in 1953.
Fetching water from the river in Polvijärvi (North Karelia region, Finland) in 1965. The winter of 1965-1966 was one of the coldest in recent Finnish history. Finnish Lapland had its longest cold spell ever recorded, with 146 days (almost five months) of mean temperatures under zero degrees centigrade. My colorization of Matti Poutvaara´s photo in the archive of the Finnish Heritage Agency.
Lady Susan Beresford (1877 - 1947) and her horse, photographed on December 15, 1900 at her home, Mayfield House, Portlaw, Co. Waterford (Ireland).
