(return to Historyfish Home)
(return to Photochrom pages on Historyfish)
(go to Abbey Pages Home)
(go to Monastic Pages Home)
Leave a Comment  


    The Visitation, version (c) richenda fairhurst
 Costume  (page one)
~ Traditional national and religious dress.

The Photochrom Photograph collection displayed on these pages is dated between 1890 and 1900 and available from the Library of Congress.  The collection includes pictures of abbeys, cathedrals, and churches, and also castles, city gates, bridges, harbors, and more.  This page is devoted to traditional costume.  Click here for Castles and Gates.  Clike here for Abbeys and Churches.  Click here for everything else.

I wish I had time to fill these pages with information about each abbey, grotto, tomb, shrine, church and monastery pictured.  But realistically, I just don't.  Fortunately, in today's world, if you need more information, you can google to find it.  Post any info in my comments section if you like. 

With or without the particulars, it is really the photographs that matter and in this case they speak for themselves.  Not only are they beautiful, but they were taken before motorcars arrived to ruin the historical setting.  Best of all, these photographs are all in the public domain, which means I am free to use them as I like, and so are you!

Enjoy them!!
 -Richenda
Various portraits of people in costume from Europe, North Africa, and the Holy Land.
  Back to the Photochrom Collection page on Historyfish.
The Photochrome Collection.  Detroit Publishing Co., 1905.   Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
    

    Costume

    North Africa

     
Moorish Men, ca 1899
 [Arabs before a cafe, Algiers, Algeria]
[Arabs before a cafe, Algiers, Algeria]
moorish_men.>    242k  



Moorish Women, ca 1899
[Luce Ben Aben, Moorish women preparing couscous, Algiers, Algeria]
[Luce Ben Aben, Moorish women preparing couscous, Algiers, Algeria]
moorish_women.>   267k 



[Tunisian girl, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
[Tunisian girl, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front]
tunisian_girl.>    168k       
This photograph is not part of the Photochrome Collection.
Lehnert & Landrock, photographers. Tunisia, taken between 
1904 and 1913. (Note the marks on her cheeks.)


     British Isles

     
Boscastle Cornwall

boscastle_cornwall>   2.4M  




Irish Spinner
[Irish Spinner and Spinning Wheel. Co. Galway, Ireland]
[Irish Spinner and Spinning Wheel. Co. Galway, Ireland]
irish_spin.>   298k  

 


Welsh Spinners  
[Welsh spinners and spinning wheel, Wales]
[Welsh spinners and spinning wheel, Wales]
welsh_spinning.> 446k 



Beefeater
[A yeoman of the guard (Beefeater), London, England]
[A yeoman of the guard (Beefeater), London, England] 
beefeater.>   346k  



Highland Cattle
[Father and son (highland cattle), England]
[Father and son (highland cattle), England]
highland_cattle.>   339k  



Mary, Queen of Scots
[Mary, Queen of Scots]
[Mary, Queen of Scots]
mary_queen.>   351k  
mary_queen_large.>   2.5M  




Boys at the Shore
[Opposition, England] (Waiting for a job (donkeys)
[Opposition, England] (Waiting for a job (donkeys)
mules_boys.>   282k

    General Europe


     
Lapp Family
[A Lapp family, Norway]
[A Lapp family, Norway]
lapp_family.>   248k 



  
Milksellers
[Milksellers, Brussels, Belgium]
[Milksellers, Brussels, Belgium]
milksellers.>  283k



 
Muslim Woman  
[Mostar, Mahomedan woman, Herzegowina, Austro-Hungary]
Herzegovina, in today's Bosnia Herzegovina.
[Mostar, Mahomedan woman, Herzegowina, Austro-Hungary]
muslim_woman.>   276k 


 
Peasant Wagon
[Peasant wagon, Bosnia, Austro-Hungary]
Bosnian, in today's Bosnia Herzegovina.
[Peasant wagon, Bosnia, Austro-Hungary]
wagon_bosnia.>  375k 


[A girl of Grodenthal (i.e., Grödertal), Tyrol, Austro-Hungary]
Part of today's Austria
[A girl of Grodenthal (i.e., Grödertal), Tyrol, Austro-Hungary]
grodenthal_girl.>    270k



[Hammersdorf, Hermmanstadt (i.e., Hermannstadt), Hungary, Austro-Hungary]
From today's city of Sibiu, Romania.
[Hammersdorf, Hermmanstadt (i.e., Hermannstadt), Hungary, Austro-Hungary]
hammersdorf.>    294k



[Girls in native costume, Carniola, Austro-Hungary]
Berta Lergetporer, a Slovenian
[Girls in native costume, Carniola, Austro-Hungary]
carniola_woman.>      263k
photographer Benedikt Lergetporer of Bled, Slovenia, 1897.



[Girls in native costume, Carniola, Austro-Hungary]
From today's Slovenia.
[Girls in native costume, Carniola, Austro-Hungary]
carniola_woman2.>       262k



[Peasants near Trieste, Istria, Austro-Hungary]
Located in today's Italy, near Slovenia.
[Peasants near Trieste, Istria, Austro-Hungary]
peasant_family.>     345k



<back to top>  for more page links.
These pages copyright (c) Richenda Fairhurst and historyfish.net, 2007  All rights reserved. No commercial permissions are granted.
Keep author, source and copyright permissions with this article.
For problems with these pages, please contact the Webmaster at historyfish.net.
Disclaimer:  Historyfish  intends to generate discussion through community boards, essays, and shared information and does not claim to provide, in any way, formal, legal, or factual advice or information. These pages are opinion only.  Opinions shared on historyfish are intended to be part of a wider discourse, and are  not necessarily the opinions of historyfish editors, staff, or administration.     Always consult proper authorities with questions pertaining to copyrights, property rights, and intellectual property rights.