The Great Famine, the hunger dress and the story of my family (Part 1 of the series)

My warm thanks for the lovely folks at the Seurasaari Open Air Museum in Helsinki.

Books:

Nälkä vai tauti tappoi? : kauhunvuodet 1866-1868 by Turpeinen, Oiva (1986)
Suomen historian käsikirja. Jälkimmäinen osa by Korhonen, Arvi (1949)
Kun halla nälän tuskan toi : miten suomalaiset kokivat 1860-luvun nälkävuodet by Häkkinen, Antti (1991)
Nälkävuodet 1867-1868 by Jussila, Tuomas (2018)

Three dresses from Tampere City Museums, licensed CC BY 4.0:
http://bit.ly/4jEJjGO
https://bit.ly/3Yxv3Hu
https://bit.ly/3EljGf4

From the Finnish Heritage Agency (CC BY 4.0):

Grain storage at Paavi’s house, photo by Niilo Valonen, https://finna.fi/Record/museovirasto....
Karolina Eskelin tutkimassa potilasta, https://bit.ly/42guYug
The house of Finnish senate, https://finna.fi/Record/museovirasto...., chromolithography by Frans Oskar Liewendal, 1877
Women’s dress fabrics, https://finna.fi/Record/museovirasto...., Finnish Heritage Agency, 1860
Dinner for 100 poor people 10.4.1868, https://finna.fi/Record/museovirasto....

From the Finnish National Gallery (all in public domain):

The garden of Death by Hugo Simberg, 1896, Finnish National Gallery
Conveying the Child's Coffin (A Child's Funeral), https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/o... by Albert Edelfelt, 1879
Rye field by Järnefelt, Kasper, 1882, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...
A tenant farm by Hjalmar Munsterhjelm, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...
Laundry at the river bank, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., Eero Järnefelt, 1889
Buying National Costumes in Säkylä, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o... Liljelund, 1878
A view with four peasant children, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o..., Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1865
Under the Yoke by Eero Järnefelt, 1896, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...
Evening over Marshland by Gottfrid Kallstenius, 1900, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...
Haminalahti, Farmer's Wife on the Cartway by Sigfrid August Keinänen, 1900, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/o...,
A clearing, Uusimaa landscape by Fanny Churberg, 1872, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/o...
Beggar children, Kansanwalistusseuran kalenteri 1888 https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/o...
Death Listens, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/o..., Hugo Simberg, 1897
Winter Landscape with Farmhouse in Häme by Hjalmar Munsterhjelm, 1866, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/en/o...
Winter Landscape from Savo by Magnus von Wright, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...,
Beggar Family on the Road by Robert Wilhelm Ekman, 1860, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...
Playmates by Hugo Simberg, 1897, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...
Death and the Potato Picker, Hugo Simberg, https://reitz.fi/maalaukset/kuolema-j...
Karjalasta by Väinö Hämäläinen, 1908, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...
Death on skates by Hugo Simberg, 1899, https://www.kansallisgalleria.fi/fi/o...

Other images (CC BY 4.0 unless stated otherwise):

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... by Htm
Skördebild, https://finna.fi/Record/sls.%25C3%259... by Lars Axén, Lars Axéns arkiv,
The cottage of Skållas-Lena, 1917, Photo by Valter W. Forsblom, Sydösterbottniska allmogebyggnader
Lex, https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..., photo by Pekka Järveläinen, CC BY SA 4.0
100 mark bank note, https://finna.fi/Record/museovirasto...., The National Museum of Finland
Sewing machine, https://finna.fi/Record/satakunnanmus..., Satakunta Museum
Obligation, https://finna.fi/Record/museovirasto...., The National Museum of Finland, Numismaattiset kokoelmat, photo by Marco Melander
Snow and ice, Lake Hossa by Risto Varhe, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., CC BY 3.0
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...
Olavinlinna and part of the city, by Hjalmar Munsterhjelm, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...
Bread substitutes, https://finna.fi/Record/museovirasto...., photo by Matti Kilponen, The National Museum of Finland
Autopsy instruments, The Museum Centre of Turku, https://finna.fi/Record/tmk.160992655...
Bacilli of typhoid, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi..., CC BY SA 4.0