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Vintage Reindeer Images
People of the Reindeer
 Photographs/Cards/Stereoviews/Engravings
 

" Norge.  Lapper"
(Details N. A.)
 Original vintage chromolithograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Traveling with a Child"
(Captions in Russian and French)
 Original vintage collotype postcard, c.1900
9 x 13.7 cm
 

"Renhjord ved Finse Bergensbanen"
(Reindeer Herd at Finse Bergen Railway (Norway))
 Original vintage photograph postcard, 1913
9 x 13.7 cm
 

Reindeer in Bergensbanen Range, Norway
" Tor Wilse - Eneret C. & A.  No 201"
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1912
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" 132  A Reindeer Outfit - Lapland"
 Original vintage color lithograph postcard, 1915
9 x 13.7 cm

"A Reindeer Outfit - Lapland
Near the North Cape on the northwestern coast of Norway are settlements of Laplanders.
 The Lapps are by no means beautiful / attractive or cleanly.  Thy are short in stature, the men being
about five feet high and the women four.  They wear garments made of reindeer skin with the
pelt turned outwards, the garments lasting indefinitely. Their mode of travel is with reindeer and sleds."
 

" Esquimo Belles and Sled Reindeer, Alaska"
" No. 545.  Hopf Bros. Co., Importers, Seattle, Wash.  Made in Germany"
 Original vintage color lithograph postcard, c. 1908
9 x 13.7 cm
 

"Jotuheimen - Renhjord i Svartdalen - Mellem Bygdin og Gjende"
(Jotuheimen - Reindeer Herd in Svartdalen  - Between Bygdin and Gjende (Norway))
"O. Svanõe  Bergen  Enebererriget 1907.  No. 405"
Original vintage collotype postcard,  1907
9 x 13.7 cm
 

Lapp Family and Tent
"Norge - En Lappefamilies midlertidige Ophold under dens Vandring fra de svenske Fjelde til den norske Kyst"
(Norway  - A Lapp family's temporary dwelling used during its trek from the Swedish Mountains to the Norwegian Coast)
Original vintage photograph cabinet card, hand-colored.  c. 1890
10.8 x 16 cm
 

" Lappetelt: Finnmark"
(Lapp House - Finnmark (Norway))
" Eneret: Hamarfest Turisthandel A/S"
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

 Lapp Family, Trondheim, Norway

 Original vintage lithograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

 "Lappeleir ved Lyngseidet"
(Lapp camp at Lyngseidet - (Norway))
" Eneret , Firma Anton Giaever,Lyngseidet."
 Original vintage collotype postcard, hand colored,  1930
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" 762.  Finnmarken.  Lappeier"
(Finnmark Lapps - Norway)
" H. Abel  Eneberettigt Christiania"
 Original vintage chromolithograph postcard, 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" An Arctic Dairy  (Milking Reindeer)"
" The Hugh C. Leighton Co., Manufacturers, Portland, ME U.S.A."
 Original vintage chromolithograph postcard, 1911
9 x 13.7 cm

" Lap med Rensdyr"
(Lapp with Reindeer (Sweden))
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c.1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Same med Ren Lappa"
(Sami with Reindeer (Norway))
"139/025 - 215"
 Original vintage color lithograph postcard, c. 1966
10.5 x 14.8 cm

"Norge. Same med ren.
The Lapps or Laplanders are a Finnic people living in the very north of Norway and adjacent regions. 
About 21,000 Lapps live in Norway, 2,000 in Finland, 7,000 in Sweden, and 2,000 in the U.S.S.R. 
Fishing (Often with very modern equipment) and agriculture are the
chief occupations of the Norwegian Lapps.  Mountain-Lapps have reindeer-flocks and are nomads. 
Language of Finno-Ugric origin."
 

" Lappefamilie"
(Lapp family (Norway))
" 1/98  Eneret  Mittet & Co."
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Lapläger å Skansen"
(Lapp Camp at Skansen (Sweden))
"Imp. Axel  Eliassons   Kontsförlag, Stockholm   No. 2119"
 Original vintage chromolithograph postcard, 1913
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" 9512  Rensdyr ved Grotli Hotell - Norge"
(Reindeer at Grotli Hotel - Norway)
" Enerett: Normanns Kunstforlag, Hamar"
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

"9515  Rensdyr ved Grotli Hotell - Norge"
(Reindeer at Grotli Hotel - Norway)
" Enerett: Normanns Kunstforlag, Hamar"
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Finn med ren (Host)"
(Finn with reindeer  (Finland))
" Eneret Carl Normanna Kunstforlag, Hamar"
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Lappe Bollig - Hilsen fra Norge"
(Lapp House - Regards from Norway)
 Original vintage chromolithograph postcard, 1907
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" S 302 Rein /  Hallingfjellet"
(Reindeer in Halling Mountains, (Norway))
" Enerett - H. Strand,, Ål i Hallingdal."
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
10 x 14.5cm
 

"People of the Frigid North""
"Lapp Home and Family near Tromsoe, Norway"
" Keystone View Company, Publishers."
 Original vintage photograph stereoview, c. 1910
17.8 x 6.6 cm

"Lapp Home and Family near Tromsoe, Norway
Only about 1,400 miles from the North Pole!  We are away up in the Land of the Midnight sun, a short distance from the fishing town of Tromsoe.  It is a surprise to see grass and fir trees clothing the ground, but mother earth makes the most of the short summer here.  Rye, barley and oats grow even as far north as this where
there is favorable exposure, and birch and wild cherry trees are not uncommon. 
This Lapp family have come over the border from Sweden just for the season and it is their summer residence
where we find them.  They are lineal descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of these northlands, and their
language is a far-off cousin of the Hungarian.  This house is built of stones and small logs, covered over with turf.  There is an opening in the top to let out the smoke of the open fire and all the air and light enter by that
 opening and by he door where the mother sits with that chubby baby.  a pretty large family it seems
 to be for one such hut, but they are not very exacting in the matter of food and clothing and fresh air.
They get along serenely with their reindeer to depend on as a chief source of livelihood. 
This beast has just been caught in the pasture by a lasso over its horns, and led around
here to show us a specimen of the master's herd.  It is just as well that the mistress does not bestir herself
to offer us a drink of reindeer milk, for it is particularly thick, as if it had been beaten up with eggs,
and the flavor is too strong to recommend it at first to a stranger; in fact the mother dilutes it with water
before she gives it to these uncritical urchins for their supper"
 

"A Lapland Family and their Summer Home
on a Hillside in Norway"
" Keystone View Company, Publishers."
 Original vintage photograph stereoview, c. 1910
17.8 x 6.6 cm

""A Lapland Family and their Summer Home
This Lapp family have established their temporary summer home a short distance from the fishing village of Tromsoe. Their tent is made of skins and of heavy woolen cloth called vadreal  stretched over birch-tree poles. 
This cloth is porous and allows the wind to pass through, thus being more secure than skins or canvas which would  resist the wind.  The opening in the top is to let out the smoke of the open fire, and all the air and light enter by that opening and by the door where the mother stands with her chubby baby.
The Lapps are probably the smallest people in Europe.  They are lineal descendants of the aboriginal inhabitants of these Northlands, and their language is like that of the Hungarians.  They are divided into three classes according to where they live, namely, the fishing Lapps, the forest Lapps, and the mountain Lapps. 
The two latter wander from one part to another according o the season and so are called nomads. 
They have herds of reindeer, which are their chief wealth. they drink the milk of the reindeer, from it make
butter and cheese, eat its flesh, make clothes from its skin, and use the living animal for drawing their sleighs. 
Of course the fishing Lapps live largely on fish.  But even the Lapps are having wants more like people
in other parts of the world and feel that they, too, must have coffee, sugar, and tobacco.
Lapland is not a separate country, but is just a name given to the region inhabited by the Lapps and which
forms part of Norway, Sweden and Finland.  It is mostly beyond the Arctic Circle."
 

" P-15781  Laplander's Hut"
" Keystone View Company, Publishers."
 Original vintage photograph stereoview, c. 1910
17.8 x 6.6 cm

"Lapp  Family at Home, Norway
This queer looking mound is a house - not a playhouse, but a really, truly house.  It is made of stones covered with earth.  It has no windows.  There is only a hole in the roof to let out the smoke.  It is a dark, dirty place.  Around the inside is a raised step of hard mud.  This is used for table, chairs and bed.  Here the family sit, eat and sleep.  At night they spread down reindeer skins for their bed.
The Lapps are small people, much smaller than Americans.  They live far north in a very cold part of the world.  They dress mostly in reindeer skins worn with the hair inside.  Their boots are pointed deerskin moccasins.  The reindeer give the Lapps almost everything they need.  The skins are made into clothes, bedding and summer tents.  The flesh is eaten.  They give the Lapps rich milk which can be made into butter and cheese.  And when the snow is on the ground they draw his sledge for him.  Some are so swift they go a hundred miles a day.  In winter they eat lichens and moss under the snow..  It is hard work to paw away the snow to get these.  The Lapp could not live without his herds of useful reindeer, and his dogs to help care for them."
 

" 4620.  Norge.   Rensdyr"
"Fot. Normann."
" Enerett : Car,  Normanns Kunstforlag."
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
10.5 x 15 cm
 

 Sami with Reindeer and Sleds
" Mittet & Co., Kunstforlag, Oslo (Norway)"
 Original vintage color lithograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Caribou Crossing the Yukon River (Alaska)"
" Published by W. T. Ridgley Calendar Co., Great Falls, Mont."
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" 37 - A Herd of Reindeer, Alaska"
" Photo by Curtis & Miller  2B H445"
""Johnson, Tranel & Houston, Seattle, Wash."
"Genuine Curteich - Chicago 'C. T. Art-Colortone'  Postcard (Reg. U. S. Pat. Off.)
 Original vintage color lithograph postcard, 1942
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Renskyss  24"
(Reindeer Kiss (Noway))
" K. Tiberg.  Hammerfest, eneret"
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Rener  10"
(Reindeer (Fnnmark, Norway))
" K. Tiberg.  Hammerfest, eneret"
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Reindeer Herd, Alaska"
" 5112 Published by Lowman & Hanford Co., Seattle.  Made in U. S. A"
Original vintage chromolithograph postcard, 1911
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" F - 2170-4  Same og Rein med Slade"
(Sami with his Reindeer and Sled (Norway))
"Aûne - Enerett, Knut Kunstforlag A?S"
 Original vintage color lithograph postcard, c. 1960
14.8 x 10.3 cm
 

" The 'Fast  Express' Train"
"Reindeer Team - St i Michael  Ils (Alaska)"
 Original vintage photograph , c. 1900
8 x 13.6 cm
 

" Norge Renhjord"
(Norwegian Reindeer Herd)
" Photographicum  W. Stoppenbrink - Tondhjem u Nordkap"
 Original vintage photograph, c. 1900
14.7 x 9.8 cm
 

"  Reinsdyr pá Hardengervidden"
(Reindeer in Hardangrvidda (Norway))
"268  Enerett:E. Djupdrœt  Nesttun."
 Original vintage photograph postcard,  1936
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Renhjord"
(Reindeer Herd (Norway))
" 1964  G Hagen, Hammrfest.  Enertet"
 Original vintage photograph postcard,  1936
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" 1237  Rensdyr"
(Reindeer (Norway))
" Atelier K. K. Bergen (Norway)"
 Original vintage photograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Renhjord i Jämtland"
(Reindeer Herd in Jämtland  (Sweden))
" No. 164  Nils Thomasson,  Köfra.  Import "
 Original vintage collotype postcard, 1919
9.2 x 14 cm
 

" Caribou Swimming the Yukon (Alaska)"
 Original vintage photograph postcard, 1925
9 x 13.7 cm
 

Lapps with Sled and Reinder , Norway
""Foto: G. Stenfors"
 Original vintage color lithograph postcard, c. 1915
9 x 13.7 cm
 

""En  Russie Polaire - Chasseau renne par les Toungouses"
(In Polar Russia - Tungus People Chasing Reindeer)
 Liebig Trade Card
Original vintage photochrome  trade card, 1917
11.3 x 7 cm
 

" Lapland"
Arbuckle Coffee Trade Card,  No. 50
"Painting Copyrighted 1893 Arbuckle Bros"
" Arbuckle Bros., New York City"
  Original vintage photochrome trade card,  1893
7.5 x 12.5 cm

"Lapland
A winter of nine months is the portion of Lapland. The Lapps dwell very far north in Europe,
and the general aspect of their country is forbidding.  The people of this country and of Finland, t
o whom they are nearly allied, are a hardy and courageous race.  They are, however, wild
and savage when aroused.  In disposition they are peaceable.  The Laplanders are great fishermen
and there are many varieties of fish along his shores.  He is also a great hunter,
and in winter his game is the squirrel, wolf, sable, ermine otter and bear. 
Many Laplanders swell in tents, but most of these even during the coldest season retire to rude,
low, wooden structures.  They dress in skins or coarse home-woven clothing
The favorite recreation of the children is Blind-Man’s Bluff. 
these rude young barbarians play it with zest and delight which is infectious. 
Many a rough buffet do they give and  receive, and woe betide the youngster who allows his bad humor
to resent a blow given by accident or in fun.
In the sketch to the left, is shown a representative group.  The man is a hunter, fully
equipped for the chase from which he has just returned laden down with game.  He wears snowshoes. 
The woman, his wife, bears in a portable frame her baby which is bound within. 
The reindeer is everything to the Laplander – his food, his means of transportation,
the source and evidence of his wealth.  Reindeer are allowed to find pasture for themselves,
ranging where they will, branded as are cattle on our western prairie-land. 
The reindeer is the Laplander’s horse as well and carries him over the snow in his low-seated carriage
with the swiftness of the wind.  Among other sports of this people, are ball-playing,
monotonous singing, and skating down hill on the skide, a skate over six feet long.
This is one of a series of Fifty (50) Cards giving pictorial History of the sports and Pastimes of all Nations."
 

"A Sorcerer of Kamchatka"
"Two Women of the State of Mokshanien"
"A Kasan Tartar"
Goldsmith's Geography, Oliver Goldsmith, R. Phillips, London, 1806
 Original vintage copper engraving, 1806
9 x 13.cm
 

" Norge  Lapper"
(Norwegian Lapp Men)
" M & Co. 30"
"Brevkort fra Norge (Norvège)"
 Original vintage collotype (hand-colored) postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm

" Lappland"

"Brevkort fra Norge (Norvège)"
 Original vintage color lithograph postcard, c. 1910
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" Yakut Woman"
"J. Adam"
All Around the World, Wm. Ainsworth, ed., Selmarhess, N.Y., 1880
 Original vintage wood engraving, 1880
12 x 16 cm
 

" Tunguse Sorcerers and Natives"
"Huyot and J. Adam"
 All Around the World, Wm. Ainsworth, ed., Selmarhess, N.Y., 1880
 Original vintage wood engraving, 1880
16 x 11.5 cm
 

" Manchurians and Tungusians of the Transbailkal Region"
"Tricnon"
All Around the World, Wm. Ainsworth, ed., Selmarhess, N.Y., 1880
 Original vintage wood engraving, 1880
16 x 11.5 cm
 

 
" Den Gamle Samen"
(The Old Sami (Sweden))
"Copyright Sven Hörnell, Riksgränsen, Sweden"
" "Ett Jätekort, Made in Sweden"
 Original vintage color lithograph postcard, 1955
21 x 14 cm
 

" 413 (15770) Laplanders Milking Reindeer, Norway"
" Keystone View Company Factories., Meadville, Pa.."
 Original vintage glass lantern slide, c 1900
10. x 18.2 cm
 

" The Rein Deer"
"De Seve, del, Warner sc"
" Goldsmith's History of the Earth, & Animated Nature.  With Copious Notes. 
Containing all the New Discoveries in the Phenomena of Nature, &c. &c. 
Interspersed with numerous anecdotes of the Lives, Manners, & Instincts of the Animal Kingdom;
 selected from the most authentic sources, by Oliver Goldsmith"
 Original vintage copperplate engraving, 1816
8 x 12.2 cm (image)
 

" Laplander's Encampment on the Neva in St. Petersburg"
"From a sketch by our special artist"
" S. E. Waller,  C Roberts, sc."
"The Graphic, London, February 14, 1874"
(Also appeared in Harper's Weekly, March 1874)
 Original vintage wood engraving , 1874
30 x 22.3 cm
 

" Yakuts on a Journey"
All Around the World, W. F. Ainsworth, ed.
"J. A."
 Original vintage wood engraving, 1860
16 x 8.3 cm
 

"Laplanders and Reindeer"
"Brought to London by W. Bullock, Esq. - With a View of the North Cape, Drawn by Captain Brooke"
"Wm. Craig del ,  T. Dixon sc."
" Published April 1, 1822 by Henry Fisher, Caxton, London"
 Original vintage copper engraving, hand colored, 1822
16.2  x 11.3. cm
 

   
" Laplander Travelling"
" Published by W. T. Ridgley, A Practical System of Modern Geography,
or A View of The Present State of The World.
Simplified and Adapted To The Capacity of Youth. Containing Numerous Tables,
Exhibiting the Divisions, Settlement, Population, Extent, Lakes, Canals,
and the various institutions of the United States and Europe,
 the different forms of government, Prevailing Religions, the Latitude and Longitude
of the Principal Places on the Globe. Embellished With Numerous Engravings
 of Manners, Customs, &c., By J. Olney, A. M., New York."
"Published By Robinson, Pratt & Co., 259 Pearl Street., 1835".
 Original vintage wood engraving, 1835
5.5 x 4 cm
 

"Reindeer " (with Wolves)
The Popular Natural History
Cassel, Petter, & Gilpinn, London
 Original vintage wood engraving, 1884
15 x 119.5 cm

" Reindeer"
Hills Practical Reference Library
 Original vintage wood engraving , i903
6.5 x 4.7 cm
 

" Reindeer"
Hills Practical Reference Library
 Original vintage wood engraving , i903
9 x 13.7 cm
 

" A Samoyede Encampment"
 The Peoples of the World, Cassell & Co., London.
 Original vintage wood engraving, 1885
14 x 11 cm
 

"Milking Reindeer"
"Laplanders Migrating"
"Traveling in Reindeer Sledges"
 Illustrated Natural History, S. G. Goodrich, New York
Original vintage wood engravings, 1861
7 x 5 cm, each

Reindeer
People of the Reindeer
 
The most prolific and common animal in the Arctic climes of the planet is the Reindeer (Rangifer tarandus).  When found in Arctic and sub-Arctic North America the species is called the Caribou.  Caribou tend to be wild and migratory while Reindeer, the same species in far northern Europe and Asia,  tend to be semi-domesticated and domesticated.

 Reindeer has been that animal that meets most of the needs of the people, and therefore serves as a totem and spiritual resource as well.  Reindeer was called "the bearer of life" and serves much as the Bison served
for the Plains Indians of North America. 

The images presented here are illustrative of 18-20th century perceptions of the Reindeer and Caribou,
the people and cultures who historically used and cherished them, and the role they played in the respective traditional cultures .

All of the above artifacts are in the collection of Imagi Gallery.
For information, or to discuss usage rights of these rare images,
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