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Fortepan

An open archive of historical Hungarian photographs.

Fortepan
Orangecosmos — CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)

Fortepan is a freely usable (CC-BY-SA) online archive of tens of thousands of historical photographs of Hungary and Hungarian life across the 20th century, donated by families and institutions.

It is a rich, openly-licensed source for the visual history of the region, including Roma life.

Official site: fortepan.hu

Gallery

33 openly-licensed images

Images via Wikimedia Commons — openly licensed (CC / public domain). Click any image to view full-size; source & licence shown below.

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