Amazing 1899 Photos of Finnish Farmers with Their Cows and Bulls

Finnish agriculture, series of photos from The Finnish Museum of Photography, 1899. I. K Inha (1865–1930), on a commission from the National Board of Agriculture, photographed scenes of Finnish agricultural work for the World’s Fair (Exposition Universelle) in Paris in 1900: stables and cowsheds, home economics exhibitions, fields and pastures.

Included among the surviving prints and negatives are nearly 150 individual portraits of cows and bulls. The photographed bovine specimens represented, at the time, the developed state and high quality of Finnish agriculture. In these photos, they pose next to their keepers or owners.