Young Women Performing Unconventional Tasks
Margareta Lagerman sits high atop a load of hay and holds the reins, ready to drive the wagon into the farmyard on her parents’ farm. Tvågården, Spårröd village, Kållered parish, Västergötland. Photographer unknown, 1930s. Collection of Kållereds hembygdsförening, in Östergötlands Museum, Linköping. The physical courage of young women growing up on farms impressed those who […]
Women Farm Servants and Their Employers
Women servants who lived in farm households were often photographed working alongside their mistress and her daughters outdoors. When those in group photos are listed, they are identified not as maidservants but by name. They can seldom be visually distinguished from family members and relatives when everyone is wearing their everyday clothing. Servants were less […]
Tenant Farmers and Landless Laborers
Carl Johan Olson, his wife Maria Sofia Jansdotter, and their children Ester Maria and Josef Hilding in front of the cottage they rented from Melltorp. Hova parish, Skaraborg (now Västergötland). Taken by Gustav Heurlin in the early spring, 1903–1906. Västergötlands Museum, Skara. Carl Johan Olson (b. 1855) and Maria Sofia Hansdotter (b. 1851) take their […]