Name/Title
StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0106.a-bDescription
Black and white stereograph that has been ripped in half - a is the left image, b is the right image. Image is of a group of people gathered around an outdoor structure, there is a deer/caribou standing to the left of the group. On a - To the left of the image "Keystone View Compnay Manufacturers Publishers UNIT - (Copyright symbole) MADE IN U.S.A." is printed to the left of the image. On b - T325 is printed above the image, "Y 15790T People of the Frigid North - Lapp Home and Family near Toromsoe, Norway." is printed below the image, "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed to the right of the image.
If the two halves are joined together, the following is printed on the reverse:
V15790
LAPP HOME AND FAMILY, NEAR TROMSOE, NORWAY
Only about 1,400 miles from the North Pole! We are away up in the Land of the Midnight Sun, a short distance from the fishing town of Tromsoe. It is a surprise to see grass and fir trees clothing the ground, but mother earth makes the most of the short summer here. Rye, barley and oats will grow even as far north as this wheret there is a favorable exposure, and birch and wild cherry trees are not uncommon.
This Lapp family have come over the border from Sweden just for the season and it is their summer residence where we find them. They are lineal descendants of the aborigiinal inhabitants of these northlands, and their language is a far-off cousin of the Hungarian. This house is built of stones and small logs, covered over with turf. There is an opening in the top to let out the smoke of the open fire and all the air and light enter by that opening and by the door, where teh mother sits with that chubby baby. A pretty large family it seems to be for one such hut, but they are not very exacting in the matter of food and clothing and fresh air.
They get along serenely with their reindeer to depend on as a chief source of livelihood. This beast has just been caught in the pasture by a lasso over its horns, and led around here to show us a specimen of the master's herd. It is just as well that the mistress does not besitre herself to offer us a drink of reindeer milk, for it is peculiarly thick, as if it had been beaten up with eggs, and the flavor is too strong to recommend it at first to a stranger' -- fact the mother dilutes it with water before she fives it to these uncritical urchins for their ---per.
Copyright by The Keystone View Company.Collection
Photograph Collection