#1900s Sweden

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Purple silk dress, 1909, Swedish.

By Fr. V. Tunborg & Co.

Worn by Wilhelmina von Hallwyl at the wedding of her granddaughter.

Hallwylska museet.

[vintage-sweden]

Mugshot of Agnes Sofia Engström, 1905, Sweden. She had been arrested for fraud.

[vintageeurope]

Stockholm, Sweden 1900

[la-belle-histoire]

Princesses Margaret and Patricia of Connaught, 1908.

[varpusvaras]

any bail/breha/fox fluff au... pls... tell me...

I have one still unknown to all others au....you'll be the first one to hear.

AU where the clones were not necessarily made for war, nor was there a sith plot behind it. Clones were made for variety of purposes, before there were laws made about cloning and sentient rights and all that regarding them. So now the clones are just living their lives.

Fox was accompanying some of his brothers (including Cody) who work as representatives to Coruscant, and he happened to chat with Bail a little there, and they ended up later writing to each other, which led to Fox then visiting Alderaan and meeting Breha too. Most of this AU is them writing letters to each other, as Fox is still figuring himself out and travelling the Galaxy (this is aesthetically so different to canon sw as well, since it's very much inspired 1900s nordics). It is pure fluff, everything is nice, and they are goals.

(I may have not fully made it a project of mine to create their handwritings so I can like. actually write the letters in those)

[pinkblanc]

[costumedump]

Crown Princess Victoria's Silver Wedding Gown

Created By Anna Grober In Vienna

Worn At Karlsruhe Palace

September 20, 1906

The Royal Armoury

Stockholm, Sweden

[allezlesbluez]

missing her a little extra today :(

sometimes i wonder how one's brain can be so sad about something and miss someone you've never met. someone who passed away before you were born. astrid will always mean so much to me, as an author and person. <3

pictures are my own personal ones from traveling

[theshatterednotes]

Elisabeth Beskow, Swedish author

[foreverinthepagesofhistoryy]

The Four Eldest Children of King Gustaf VI Adolf of Sweden and Princess Margaret of Connaught 🤍

From L to R: Bertil, Ingrid, Sigvard, and Gustaf Adolf 🖤

[epoque-victorienne]

[digitalfashionmuseum]

Grey silk dress, 1900-1910, Swedish.

Worn by Irma von Geijer.

Hallwylska museet.

[vintage-sweden]

Midsummer celebration by lake Roxen, 1903, Sweden.

[vintageeurope]

Helsingborg, Sweden 1900

[victorianchap]

🔸 Mugshot of Jonas Hendén, 1903, Sweden. He was arrested for forgery. Src: vintage-Sweden. #victorianchaps #goodolddays #portrait #edwardian #sweden🇸🇪 #oldphoto #nostalgia #pastlives #retro #1900s #history #vintage (at Sweden) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqXT6cNg_i0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[onaa-ohokthen]

Hey so some food history that isn't about Britain and coal:

People are out there roasting British cuisine (which isn't just caused by coal, but also by Victorian exclusion diets, and fourteen (14!) years of rationing and replacement foods during and after ww2, I really cannot enough emphasize how it fucks up a cuisine when people grew up on such an artificially restricted diet) having not even heard of the horrors of Swedish food prior to the 1900s. My main reason for being Strongly Anti-Locovore is that I come from a country of rye porridge, rutabagas (and later boiled potatoes) and herring. Salted herring, most of the year. Saffron is associated with Christmas because it was the only time of the year imported spices could be afforded.

It's hard to emphasize on how distant and infertile Sweden was compared to Britain and continental Europe. During the last ice age, Denmark got most of what used to be our topsoil. Large chunks of the country, especially the southern highlands, where I'm from, doesn't naturally have good enough soil to grow wheat, and thus didn't until the mid 20th century. Winter comes early enough that there isn't much of a harvest festival tradition, as you're lucky to get the harvest in before the first frost (the very southern part did have one in Mårten Gås in November, but those parts didn't become Swedish until the 1600s, before that they were eastern Denmark.)

Britain had imported oranges in the 1600s; my grandparents bought them as a novelty in the 1950s. Pizza was a novel concept until the 1970s. New Nordic cuisine is pretty much a new angle on older dishes, because the original isn't really up to par most of the time.

The point is, Sweden was poor. Before the export market for timber and mined metal became large enough to make up for the lack of anything else, and there was a state that was able and willing to redistribute those earnings to the population's benefit, there's a reason huge chunks of the population emigrated to the US. They were hungry. They were plentiful. There wasn't enough land to feed them even the measly diet their parents and grandparents were used to.

Long story short: if a time machine offers to take you to anywhere in Sweden prior to the 1900s, don't go.