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StereographEntry/Object ID
2023.055.3.0277Description
A black and white stereograph. Image is of a large group of people standing outside of a small house, in the foreground two young boys are sitting on a small fence. Above the image "T388 (Star)" is printed, below the image "24710T Characteristic Village Scene, Trlinak, Czechoslovakia." is printed, to the left of the image "Keystone View Company COPYRIGHTED Manufacturers MADE IN U.S.A. Publishers" is printed, to the right of the image "Meadville, Pa., New York, N. Y., Chicago, Ill., London, England." is printed. On the reverse the following is printed:
24710
CHARACTERISTIC VILLAGE SCENE, TRLINAK, CZECHOSLOVAKIA
Slovakia, one of the four states of Czechoslovakia, is to Prague and Bohemia what the states of Arizona or Idaho are to the people of eastern United States. It is the "wild east" of the new republic. Almost entirely an agricultural people, the Slovakians are an untrained, uneducted nation who chose illiteracy in preference to Hungaira education. Released from the oppression of the Magyars they are now in the process of adjustment, moving slowly to their new opportuniteies becaus of extreme conservatism and lack of initiative. They are poor, hardworking, superstitious, and are noted for their great hospitality and proverbial honesty. Although they were of the same nation as the Czechs and Moravians before the coming of the Magyars in the ninth century, they have but little national consciousness, no splendid indpendent history like their neighbors, the Poles and Bohemians. But the present generation is growing up with ideas of freedom instead of servility, and with the growth of educational facilities and freedom from all kinds of tyranny, there is no doubt that a great change will follow.
The entire country is rich in folklore, for every ruined castle (and in some parts of the Slavic country these ruins crown almost every crag) has its legends. Each little village has its own peculiarities of dress, distinctive and distinguishing, so that one familiar with the country can tell a man's village by his clothes. This is not true in the few places that are beocming modernized. The peasants are neat in personal habits, and their homes, though often very poor, are models for cleanliness.
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