Norwegian Crossdressing: Incredible Private Early 1900s Photos Show Two Female Photographers Playing With Gender Roles

In the rather conservative of Horten, Norway, there once lived two women, Marie Høeg (1866-1949) and Bolette Berg (1872-1944), who run a photo studio together from 1895 to 1903. What their regular customers did not know, was that they were exploring gender in their spare time, alone or together with friends, and this lead to an amazing series of crossdressing photos, some of them also of a male to female crossdressing friend.

More than three decades after Høeg’s death in 1949, a box of the partners’ glass plate negatives marked “private” was discovered on a farm where they once lived.

The collection which was collated by the Preus Museum sees Marie Høeg as the main subject of the camera. It is thought that Bolette Berg is behind the camera.

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'Maxis!': The All-Male Norwegian Play That Became a Runaway Hit in 1909

In December 1909, the Norwegian Students’ Society premiered their stage production of a comedic revue entitled Maxis! The all-male student cast played a litany of characters, from kings, queens and princesses to musketeers, satyrs and a figure in blackface. The play was a tremendous success, presenting to sold-out crowds for two weeks. It was taken on tour the following year.

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Beautiful Photographs Captured a Group of Beautiful Norwegian Women Having Fun at Beach in 1954

These photos are originated from the photo archive of Billed Bladet NOW showing bathing and beach fashions from 1954. Women still continued to wear all in one swimwear in the 1950s, rarely wearing a daring two piece bikini.

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71 Amazing Vintage Photos Documented Everyday Life of Stongfjorden, Norway from the 1900s-10s

Stongfjorden is a village in Askvoll Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. The village is located at the head of the Stongfjord, about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) northeast of the village of Askvoll and about 15 kilometres (9.3 mi) southwest of the village of Kvammen.

Stongfjorden is an industrial area that was home to the first aluminum mill in Scandinavia, Stangfjorden Elektrokemiske Fabriker. The Stongfjorden Chapel is located in the village.

As most others in Stongfjorden, Paul Stang (1888 – 1923) earned a living working at the aluminium factory. Photography was his hobby, and with a camera, Paul documented everyday life of Stongfjorden from the 1900s to 1910s.

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26 Rare and Interesting Vintage Photographs That Capture Everyday Life in Stongfjorden, Norway in the 1910s

Paul Stang (1888-1923) was a self-taught photographer who, camera in hand, documented the establishment of aluminium production in the small village of Stongfjorden, Norway.

Paul was fond of nature and disliked the development of industry in Stongfjorden. Even so he, like many others in Stongfjorden, found work at the aluminium factory - A/S Stangfjorden Elektrokemiske Fabriker.

However, Paul retained an active interest in the farm work carried out on his father's farm Stang - an interest which is documented in this collection.

Paul also photographed the people of Stongfjorden and all sorts of leisure activities. These fascinating photographs below were taken by Paul Stang from circa 1910s.

7th of May celebrations in Stongfjorden

A family portrait - even the family dog is posing

A group of people playing the game "slå på ring"

A portrait of two of Paul Stang's sisters - Jørgina Stang with the guitar and Marie Stang with the fiddle

Hay-making in Stongfjorden

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Oslo in the 1970s – Wonderful Color Photos Captured Street Scenes of the Capital in Norway 40 Years Ago

These are wonderful color photos that captured street scenes of Oslo, the capital of Norway in the 1970s.

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Norway Before 1900 – 48 Amazing Pictures of the Scandinavian Country in 1890

Norway is a Scandinavian country encompassing mountains, glaciers and deep coastal fjords with Oslo, the capital, is a city of green spaces and museums, and Bergen city, with colorful wooden houses, is the starting point for cruises to the dramatic Sognefjord. Norway is also known for fishing, hiking and skiing.

Let's make a trip back to this country in the late 19th century through 1890 taken photos.

Bryggen in Bregen

Bryggen in Bregen

Bryggen in Bregen

Buarbraeen in Hordaland

Country road in Jostedalen, Sogn og Fjordane

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Stunning Colorized Pictures of Everyday Life in Norway From the Late 19th to Early 20th Centuries

Here is a collection of colorized pictures taken by professional photographer Samuel J. Beckett and amateur photographer P. Heywood Hadfield  that shows everyday life in Norway from the late 19th to early 20th century.

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40 Rare Photos of Indigenous Sami People of the Nordic Areas and North Western Russia From the Early 20th Century

The Sami people (also Sámi or Saami) are an indigenous Finno-Ugric people inhabiting the Arctic area of Sápmi, which today encompasses parts of far northern Norway, Sweden, Finland, the Kola Peninsula of Russia, and the border area between south and middle Sweden and Norway. The Sami are the only indigenous people of Scandinavia recognized and protected under the international conventions of indigenous peoples, and are hence the northernmost indigenous people of Europe.

Sami ancestral lands span an area of approximately 388,350 km2 (150,000 sq. mi.), which is approximately the size of Norway, in the Nordic countries. Their traditional languages are the Sami languages and are classified as a branch of the Uralic language family.

Traditionally, the Sami have pursued a variety of livelihoods, including coastal fishing, fur trapping, and sheep herding. Their best-known means of livelihood is semi-nomadic reindeer herding. For traditional, environmental, cultural, and political reasons, reindeer herding is legally reserved only for Sami people in certain regions of the Nordic countries.

Sami group early 1900 eds and Lavvo tents in Tromsdalen

Sami man on Reindeer sledge in Lappland Sweden

Sami mother and children. Grotli, Oppland, Norway

A semi-nomad Sami Children Northern Sweden Norway late 1800 (likely from 1884, Bonaparte).

Mountain Saami group in Lyngen Norway. 1928

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65 Amazing Vintage Stereoscopic Photos of the Life in Norway in the 1900s by Nils Olsson Reppen

Nils Olsson Reppen (1856-1925) was born on the farm Reppen in Sogndal, Norway. In 1882 he immigrated to the US and started a career as a photographer in Browns Valley, Minnesota. He returned to Norway and set up business as a photographer in Sogndal in the 1890s. The majority of Reppen’s negatives were lost in a fire in 1965, and only 388 glass plate negatives remain today.

And here are some of his remain negatives we chose from the collection of Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane, all sterephotographs, depicting farms and villages in Sogn in the 1900s.

A big family portrait, ca. 1898-1905

A family in Krundalen, ca. 1898

A funeral in Sogndalsdalen, 1897

A man and his son in Jostedalen, 1898

A man posing to photograph in front of farmsteads in Låvi, Aurland, 1898

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