Finland Gallery

The Personification of Finland (Suomi)

The Female Personification of Finland (Suomi), holding aloft the National Flag over the sun rising across the Finnish lakes. The Finnish Lakeland or Finnish lake district is the largest of the four landscape regions into which the geography of Finland is divided. Date: circa 1910

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

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Map of the North Sea and the Baltic, c1914, (c1920). Creator: John Bartholomew & Son

Map of the North Sea and the Baltic, c1914, (c1920). Northern Europe at the start of the First World War, including parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Germany, Denmark, Great Britain and Holland. From "The Great World War - A History" Volume II, edited by Frank A Mumby. [The Gresham Publishing Company Ltd, London, c1920]

© The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Man dressed in traditional Celt or Finnish attire

Turanian of Finland in traditional clothing, similar to that worn by the ancient Celts.
Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

© North Wind Picture Archives

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