Paul Stang

Children in rain coats, ca. 1920

  

Marie Stang playing the fiddle, ca. 1910

 

These boys from the Stang and Gjerde farms were hired to transport sand 

and cement to the dams being constructed in Stongfjorden, ca. 1910

 

Two men playfighting in the street, ca. 1910

 

Winter in Stongfjorden, ca. 1910

 

Source: Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane

Paul Stang

Four women and a man in a rowboat, ca. 1910

 

Getting a hair-cut, ca. 1910

 

Loading hay, ca. 1910

 

Portrait of a maid and a worker outside a building, ca. 1910

 

Two girls with a flock of goats, ca. 1910

 

Source: Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane

Paul Stang

 17th of May celebrations in Stongfjorden in the early 1900s

[May 17 is Constitution Day in Norway]

  

 Jakob Osland worked for a few years at the iodine 

factory which was opened in 1897, ca. 1910

  

Playing a game of "slå på ring" at Folkefjellet, ca. 1910

  

 Three women, ca. 1910

  

Women and children outside a small farm house at Stang, ca. 1910

 

Source: Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane

Paul Stang

 A woman and man at work cutting stones for the 

foundation wall in the background, ca. 1910

  

Dancing at Lushågen, ca. 1910

  

Group photo by the dam, ca. 1910

  

Gudrun Friborg Waagen from Bergen, ca. 1910

    

Ovidia and Hans Dørhellen, ca. 1910

  

Source: Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane

Paul Stang

 Group portrait from a mountain farm in the Stongfjorden area, ca. 1910

  

 Group portrait of the amateur actors performing 

in the play "Elskhug og giftarmål", ca. 1910

  

 Olivia "Linken" Hiorth and her daughters, ca. 1910

  

 Picnic at mountain farm, ca. 1910

  

The cows are being milked at one of the farms in Stongfjorden, ca. 1910

Source: Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane

Paul Stang

 A group of people having a picnic at a mountain 

farm in the Stongfjorden area, ca. 1910

  

 Brother and sisters Paul, Amalie and Jørgina Stang hiking in the 

mountains together with an unidentified woman, ca. 1910

  

 Coffee in the garden, ca. 1910

  

 Farm work, Yndestad, 1916

  

Group portrait at Lushågen, ca. 1910

Source: Fylkesarkivet i Sogn og Fjordane

Paul Stang

Paul Stang was a Norwegian photographer. The photos come from here. These were all taken around 1910.

7th of May celebrations in Stongfjorden

  

A family portrait - even the family dog is posing

  

A group of people playing the game "slå på ring"

  

A portrait of two of Paul Stang's sisters - Jørgina Stang 

with the guitar and Marie Stang with the fiddle

  

Hay-making in Stongfjorden

  

Johannes and Anna Grimelid at their wedding day. Anna is 

wearing her "bunad" (national costume) and a traditional bridal crown.