Skarabej

Posted by Miss Cellania in Pictures on December 7, 2007 at 12:29 pm


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Skarabej is an “online museum of old family photographs” from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, the Czech Republic, and Croatia. Many were found in anonymous collections at flea markets or in attics, although some are contributed.

Although we collect we are not collectors. We would like to create an archive of memmories of unknown people and events and make them available to everyone. No doubt, we are all going to be in forgotten, old family photographs.

The wedding photo above is from the Marenãiç family of Croatia. Link -via Metafilter




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5 comments to "Skarabej"

  1. Hops
    December 7th, 2007 at 12:54 pm

    They look short. Why was everyone like a hundred years ago so short?

  2. Miss Cellania
    December 7th, 2007 at 1:11 pm

    People were shorter on average 100 years ago. Experts attribute it to better nutrition, fewer childhood diseases, and longer education (instead of child labor). How much each factor contributed is still a matter of contention.

  3. reznicek111
    December 7th, 2007 at 3:42 pm

    What an interesting site - thank you for posting this! My ancestry is mainly Czech, so these old photos are of special interest.

  4. aware
    December 7th, 2007 at 6:52 pm

    “Skarabej” makes me want to know how to say/spell “scrabble” in croatian.

    i re-read it tho and realize it probably sounds like “ska ra bay” but on first glance, skarabej looks like skrabbel.

  5. Dave
    December 8th, 2007 at 9:29 pm

    Very cool gallery of photos. Is it just me, or does anyone else find it odd that people posed for group photos at funerals? Some even included the dearly departed… Very strange to me.

    I’ve been on a bit of a lost family history kick lately. That so many people are all but forgotten after one or two generations, even by their own descendants, is very sad. I recently found the gravesite of my great-great-grandfather, who was the first of my family to set out from the northeast back in the mid-1800’s, homesteading a farm in NW Iowa. No one in my immediate family even knew his name, much less where he lived or was buried. Sad.


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