Carl Koller studio (Bistri?a [Bistritz], Romania) 1870s (ca) Studio portrait of two Saxon women, standing and sitting, wearing traditional Saxon dress (summer Sunday church clothes). [European German]
Cabinet card Pitt Rivers Museum Joan Evans - Donated August 1941, 1941.8.167
Research Notes
This photograph was taken in Bistritz, Austria-Hungary, now known as Bistri?a in northern Transylvania, Romania. The population of Transylvanian Saxons had a long history in the region, but by the later nineteenth century were becoming - and still are - a minority group. [PG 07/02/2013]
