Featured Old Cruise Ship Photos

I purchased a box of a couple hundred old photos at the TS today which I think are from the late 1930's or 1940. The photos contain what I think are land and sea images from Norway. There are some ship images of the MY Stella Polaris which was completed in 1927 for use and later captured by Germany I think in 1940 for use. There are also some pictures of the Ariadne which was deliverd in 1930 for use and later sunk by Germany on June 7th or 9th 1940.

Does anyone know if photo images like these are fairly rare or common? Would they have any historical or collecter value? Also, there are some images of a harbor and people, does anyone know where they might be or when the photos were taken or anything else? Thanks in advance for any information.

 

Looks to me like a very interesting collection! BTW - there is third vessel pictured = Midnattsol (Midnight Sun.) Unfortunately there is cruise ship of the same name currently operating under the Viking River Cruise flag, so that's all I could find in a quick search.

 

Thanks for the replies! Below is the translated link for the DS «Midnatsol» (Midnight Sun). Looks like during the attack on Norway in 1940 it was in route to Trondheim.

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=no&u=https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/DS_%C2%ABMidnatsol%C2%BB&prev=search

 

They're photographs taken by an individual? Not published photographs? Of course, they'd be of interest to collectors in a number of areas. The portraits appear to be of Sámi.

Debora

 

I really like these.

My first reaction is, the majority don't look to be taken by some hack tourist photographer. The person/persons had some skill.

I'm judging that based on some of the compositions, exposures, and the really nice candid portraits of the indigenous people.

 

I agree re quality. Photographer especially skilled with portraits.

Debora

 

Yes, I think they are actual photographs taken by an individual and I don't think they are published. I have the Kodak box they came in. Here's a few more images, some closeups of them.

 

Well, photographs of the Sámi period in that period are fairly rare. I think those might be of greatest interest (to someone.) But you won't want to break up collection. More value together.

Debora

 

Debora, thanks for the information on the Sámi period! I'm going to include a few more closeup images below.

 

If I had found these in a thrift, I'd think I'd died and gone to heaven.

I have a very small Lapp collection. One small item has been in my family since I can remember, and I treasure it.

I was lucky enough to find a Lapp doll a few years back in a local antique shop. My daughter has it now and displays at Christmas time.

I do recognize one photo from doing an occasional search on ebay, and it's one of the last photos you post.
https://www.antiquers.com/attachments/hpim0578-jpg.195365/

I just did a quick search, but this time it did not appear.

It is the man lighting a pipe.

 

Yes they are Saami, but the woman with the round fibula looks like she could be Nenets or of a related Samoyedic nation. The Samoyedic peoples are culturally related to the Saami, but different ethnically and linguistically.
Although they live in Russia, I have heard of some of them ending up in Finland, which used to be Russian.

 

Looks like the person did their own developing. I'm pretty sure those are boxes for photo paper.
So the person was a photographer. Whether professional or amateur, we don't know unless, there is a name somewhere we can look up.
The paper expires in 1945, so pictures would have been taken sometime around then.

 

Some interesting related reading:

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-05029-0_6

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...2018.1431501&usg=AOvVaw2oZD2rSGCR68QlqXz3j_cO

 

Any photographs of women in modern clothing? That would help with dating. Of course, the featured car would too -- if anyone can identify model and year. (Way) beyond my expertise (although it certainly appears to be from the 1930s.)

Debora

 

Also, the boxes may not be contemporary to the photos.

Debora

 

Great photo's.....significant history....they deserve museum research...

I would think National Geographic would want them !!

 

Wow! Just saw this post. Agree with the above, the photographer definitely had some skill. Is there nothing written at all, anywhere?

 

Yes, a lot of the pictures are very nice and have skill to them but there are others of things like just sea gulls flying in the air, shoreline and a number of blury pictures of people where they moved and the picture was quickly taken over a number of times as they were talking or something. I posted mostly some of what I thought were the nicer or more relevant pictures.

I could not find any writing on the backs of any of the images.