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A re-post of one of the most charming vintage photos I own - and unusual! And the winter theme is quite suitable when we have just one week left to Christmas.
This rather unusual CDV depicting two ladies dressed for winter - engaged in a snowball fight! The picture is from rural Sweden (Öland to be more precise) and shows them in a garden, dressed in skirts and jackets suitable for the winter and quite fashionable. The ensembles have matching skirts and jackets and if you look closely at the clothes you can see trimmings (most notable on the darker clad woman). They are probably quite well off - one of the signs are the little hats they are wearing - poorer women at this time would most likely not have owned something like that, they used shawls instead. The fur scarves they are wearing also hint at some money.
And yet they are involved in a snowball fight! It is not just for show either - note the white in the face and on the jacket on the lighter dressed woman, that's not a damage on the photo but snow! No wonder she doesn't look quite happy...
Probably dating to the late 19th century.
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Early 20th century portrait of four smiling young women. They are all of the same age but with rather different faces, so I think it is safe to assume that they are friends and not family.
They are dressed quite fashionably, in blouses (and skirts - because back then that really was the only alternative for women, trousers would absolutely not have been worn so we can rule that out, even when we can't see their lower bodies) and small pieces of jewelry - they all wear brooches. But I would also venture to guess that at least one or two of them, if not all, are in clothes that are home made. Or at least made very locally. But back then, that would have been very common. You would read magazines, some even including dress patterns, and then you made your own version or took it to your seamstress.
I don't know the name of any of these friendly faces, but you can't help but wish life went well for them all.
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CDV from the 1880s of a woman with three children - taken in either Helsingborg or Simrishamn (here spelt Cimbrishamn), in Skåne, southern Sweden. They seem to be quite well off, but their clothes are quite interesting. They are all well dressed, with a white collar on the youngest boy and the girl dressed in a very fashionable, short version of a grown-up dress. But at the same time, the necklace on the woman is of very local character - the only similar one I have been able to find on-line (with known provenance) is from eastern Skåne (where Simrishamn is located, which could be an indication that the photo actually was taken there).
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Old portrait taken by the photographer Albin Andersson in Karlskoga, Sweden, in 1906 (you can see the year stamped on the photo in the lower right corner - though, truth be told, you can't really see it on this scan). The little girl is standing on an embroidered chair wearing boots and a white dress with ruffles.
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CDV portrait of a woman taken in 1903 in Karlshamn, Sweden, by the photographer Falk (I have several old photos from Karlshamn - bought at the same time, in an online auction, all by the same photographer). The year 1903 is stamped on the photo.
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