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Countrywoman with baby | ~1910

Silver gelatine, about 1910
Silver gelatine, about 1910

This is a silver gelatine print of a mother wearing traditional costume with a wide skirt, black leather boots and a headscarf. She proudly presents her smiling baby wrapped in white clothes. Could be within photo studio – there is a painted wall behind her and there is a fur on the floor where she is posing. Guess the unlabeled photo was taken in Eastern Europe, probably in Eastern Slovakia, Eastern Poland,  Southern Belarus or in the Western Ukraine about 100 years ago.