The Snapshots in Time Collection

Balkan Peasant Woman and Child in Traditional Dress, WWI Macedonian Front Album

Balkan Peasant Woman and Child in Traditional Dress, WWI Macedonian Front Album

This sepia portrait of a Balkan peasant woman and child in traditional folk dress comes from the personal album of a French aviator who served on the Macedonian (Salonika) Front during World War I. French air squadrons supporting Allied operations in the Balkans often documented the local populations they encountered, leaving behind valuable ethnographic glimpses of a region transformed by war. Project: 218534