17 Stunning Color Photos of Stockholm in the Early 1910s

These stunning vintage Autochrome prints of landscape in Stockholm were taken by photographer John Jäderström in the early 1910s.

Furusund, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1910

Furusund, Stockholm, Sweden, June 1910

Garden in Vasastaden, Stockholm, ca. 1910

Greenhouse at Berzelii park, Stockholm, ca. 1910

Humlegården and the Royal Library in Stockholm, June 1912

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16 Wonderful Color Photos Capture Stockholm in 1970

These wonderful photos were taken by American photographer Roger when he traveled to Stockholm in his five-week European trip in 1970.

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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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Sexy Pictures of ABBA’s Agnetha Faltskog Posed for Sweden’s POSTER Magazine in 1976

Agnetha Fältskog was a singer with the Swedish band ABBA, famous for hits like "Mamma Mia." In 1969, Fältskog became engaged to Björn Ulvaeus. At the time of their engagement, Ulvaeus was working with a songwriter named Benny Andersson. Andersson was engaged to an Anni-Frid Lyngstad, who, much like Fältskog, was becoming an increasingly popular singer in Sweden.

The two women sang back-up vocals for their fiancés and performed with them at small concerts. In time, these two couples used the first letters of their first names -- Agnetha, Bjorn, Benny and Anni-Frid -- to form the name of their musical group, ABBA.

In 1976, Fältskog posed for Sweden's POSTER Magazine (issue 2 1976). She shared the photoshoot with a row of dolls and a massive paddle-shaped lollipop.

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30 Black and White Photographs Capture Street Scenes of Stockholm in the 1950s

Gunnar Smoliansky (1933) hails from the island of Gotland, in Sweden. He started his career as an assistant to a photographer in Sao Paulo, who specialised in industrial photography. On his return to Sweden, he started work at Atlas Copco as their inhouse photographer, while studying at Christer Strömholm’s photography school. He has numerous exhibitions and publications to his name, and books such as Barn, Slussen and Waldemarsudde.

Gunnar Smoliansky works exclusively in black and white, and always develops his photographs himself. Throughout his career, he has transformed his photographed motifs into completed photos in the darkroom. Stockholm is the main focus of Smoliansky’s photographic world, particularly the areas of Södermalm and Saltsjö-Boo, the two parts of the city he has lived and worked in for most of his life.

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A Rare Footage of the 1913 World Figure Skating Championships and Mens Nordic Games

The Nordic Games were conceived by Viktor Balck, who also was president of the ISU. The World Figure Skating Championships were sometimes combined with the Nordic Games which was the case here. Very rare footage.

75 Interesting Vintage Photographs That Capture Everyday Life in Sweden From the Early 20th Century

At the beginning of the 20th century, people were still moving from the countryside to the cities. The number of farmers grew smaller as the number of factory workers grew. More people wanted the right to vote in elections.

In 1907, all men over the age of 24 were given the right to vote. Only in 1919 did the Riksdag extend that right to women as well as men. At the end of the 19th century, workers joined together to form trade unions in order to try to improve conditions for workers and increase their wages. Sometimes they were successful. To protest against unfair working conditions, workers sometimes went on strike, refusing to work. In 1909 there was a general strike in which 300,000 workers stopped working. This was a significant event for the development of labour laws and democracy.

These interesting vintage photographs below were taken by Oskar Jarén, they show daily life in Sweden from between the 1910s and 1920s.

Little girl and three owls, 1925.

Three little girls with their cats.

Four men playing cards, ca. 1920s.

Grandmother sitting in front of her cottage.

Fetching water in the source, 1912.

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Old Photos of Life in a Refugee Camp in Småland, Sweden During World War II

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Vintage Photos of Sweden From Between the Late 1800s and Early 1900s

This set consists of b/w photographs of towns and town buildings from all over Sweden, taken in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The motifs are town views, city environments, harbors, streets, squares and individual buildings – such as palaces, dwelling houses, official buildings, school buildings, railway stations, castles, etc.

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Amazing Vintage Photos of Stockholm, Sweden in the 1910s

Heinrich Karl Hugo Bürgel studied philology at universities in Munich, Copenhagen, and Leipzig before receiving his doctorate in 1903. He moved to Sweden in 1905, receiving citizenship there two years later. In 1915 he changed his name to Henry B. Goodwin. His first position in Sweden was as an assistant to a professor of German at the university in Uppsala. He worked there until 1909, when he moved to Stockholm and began as an author of dictionaries for Norstedt & Sons.

Goodwin had been fascinated by photography since 1900 and is thought to have gone to Leipzig to study with Nicola Perscheid. He was deeply interested in the creative possibilities the photographic picture offered. He gave a lecture for Svenska Fotografers Förbund [Swedish Photographers' Association] in 1914, and from that year until 1921 he was the Swedish correspondent for Photograms of the Year's annual issue from London. In 1915 he held his first one-man exhibition.

From 1915 until 1931 he had his own professional portrait-photography studio in Stockholm. Although he was more expensive than his competitors he had a large and well-known clientele.

Goodwin learned bromoil and charcoal-print techniques from Perscheid, but it was Alvin Langdon Coburn who had the greatest effect on him. Goodwin adopted Coburn's concept "camera pictures" instead of "photography" and became a defender of Scandinavian pictorialism into the 1920s. On a trip to Germany he became acquainted with New Objectivity, which led him to change styles and find new motifs.

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48 Wonderful Color Photos of Sweden in the 1940s and Early 1950s

Fredrik Daniel Bruno (1882-1971) was a town engineer in Hudiksvall in the province of Hälsingland in the northern part of central Sweden. He was also a dedicated amateur photographer, and took colour slides during travels around Sweden in the 1940s and early 1950s.

Most of the photos show Swedish towns - with buildings, harbours, squares, monuments and public parks. Göteborg (Gothenburg) on the west coast and Stockholm, the capital, are well represented. Other photos show the countryside. A lot of the photos seem to be from official travels Fredrik Bruno made as a town engineer, and they reflect well his professional field of interest.

Stockholm, Södermanland, Sweden

Borås, Västergötland, Sweden

Karlstad, Värmland, Sweden

Kalmar, Småland, Sweden

Sollefteå, Ångermanland, Sweden

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