Title: More Photography Research Help Post by: Tonji on August 01, 2007, 11:45:51 AM (http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/aa69/nglawrie/ebay3018.jpg)
Hi all, Any ideas or suggestions where this is, & what the demonstration may have been about. Its part of an archive bought from a Russian Photo-Journalist, working in the 50s & 60s, so I am assuming this is an Eastern Bloc country. Many thanks, Tonji BTW they are not Welsh this time :) Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: kinboshi on August 01, 2007, 11:48:42 AM Is it a march demanding for Women-only poker events?
Seriously though, those flags must be the key here. Shame it isn't in colour...;D Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: Acidmouse on August 01, 2007, 11:49:34 AM Are they not swiss?
Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: Robert HM on August 01, 2007, 11:51:52 AM The cross on the swiss flag doesn't reach the edge.
Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: kinboshi on August 01, 2007, 11:57:32 AM Can't find any current Eastern Bloc flags that look like that. Georgia is the only one (of the current flags) that has a cross, but it has 4 smaller crosses in each square and also is a red cross on a white background - which doesn't match the photo.
Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: Rod Paradise on August 01, 2007, 11:59:14 AM It could be regional flag though - eg Hungary is divided into many Cantons (like Switzerland), but I've not managed to find a site with the flags.
Tonji - how'd you get on with the spearmen pic? Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: FlyingPig on August 01, 2007, 12:38:42 PM The flag DB is a great place....
http://www.flagid.org/found.asp?qa=1000000&qDI=CRO9,66,68,127,151,,,0, Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: sofa----king on August 01, 2007, 01:01:47 PM its the womens institute for the hot cross bun wars of 1937,,,.,.,where the price of flour went through the roof after mr kippling started his own cake factory in WALES.,.,,.,.,
Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: Tonji on August 01, 2007, 01:03:49 PM It could be regional flag though - eg Hungary is divided into many Cantons (like Switzerland), but I've not managed to find a site with the flags. Tonji - how'd you get on with the spearmen pic? Hi Rod, I never really got a definitive answer on that from the Pitts River museum, there best bet was Sarawak. I've since sold it to a Belgian anthropologist. Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: Tonji on August 01, 2007, 01:10:11 PM The Hungarian Uprising, in the 1950s, thats a possibility :)up
Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: dik9 on August 01, 2007, 01:31:49 PM A lesser known flag from Germany 1200-1350 is The Holy Roman Flag don't know why it would be used then though, unless it was a religion thing :dontask:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Germany Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: brummieboy on August 01, 2007, 03:00:33 PM Early picture of the Anfield Kop from the 1800's , Stanley Park in the background.
;marks; Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: CelticGeezeer on August 01, 2007, 03:10:49 PM A Greek flag perhaps
Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: PocketLady on August 02, 2007, 02:41:21 AM Could be a Scandinavian flag although they are not usually symmetrical
Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: KarmaDope on August 02, 2007, 02:42:45 AM I'm gonna take a stab in the dark and say its for womens rights in Denmark. God knows why I chose Denmark...
Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: Tonji on August 02, 2007, 09:34:50 AM The flag DB is a great place.... http://www.flagid.org/found.asp?qa=1000000&qDI=CRO9,66,68,127,151,,,0, Thats a fantastic site, (now book marked) cheers FlyingPig. The closest match seems to be Georgia Army Flag, but wether this gives a definitive location to the photograph I'm not sure. I'll leave it on the back burner a while, theres thousands to sort & catalogue in this archive, something else may well turn up that gives a further clue. Many thanks all for your input :)up Title: Re: More Photography Research Help Post by: Rod Paradise on August 02, 2007, 09:49:09 AM It could be regional flag though - eg Hungary is divided into many Cantons (like Switzerland), but I've not managed to find a site with the flags. Tonji - how'd you get on with the spearmen pic? Hi Rod, I never really got a definitive answer on that from the Pitts River museum, there best bet was Sarawak. I've since sold it to a Belgian anthropologist. Tell him we want to know!!! ;) |