Studio portrait of a man and three women in folk attire Visualizing Family, Gender Relations, and the Body. The Balkans approx. 1860-1950 Anelia Kassabova editor Centre for Southeast European History, University Graz Centre for Information Modelling in the Humanities, University Graz o:vase.214 Научен архив на Българската Академия на Науките Scientific Archive of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences Ф. 3К, оп. 1, а.е. 1288-2 Social Personality Behavior Processes and Personality Special Garments Clothing Social Stratification Classes Social Stratification Verbal Arts Arts Humanistic Studies Science and Humanities State International Relations State Bulgaria Sofia Sofia 23.32415,42.69751 Photograph Photographer 1878-1880 Anastas Nikolov Stojanović/Karastoyanov Stojanović/Karastoyanov, Anastas Nikolov Full length shot of three standing women in folk attire with headdresses with flowers and a man sitting next to them in traditional costume. Painted canvas backdrop, which creates the illusion of the scene being set in nature. Verso: hand-written inscription [from K. Jireček]: "Slatina bei Sofia / Sopi Sofijski (od Slatiny)." The photograph is kept in the personal archive of Konstantin Jireček. Konstantin Josef Jireček (1854 - 1918) was a Czech historian, diplomat and Slavist. He entered the Bulgarian service in 1879, and in 1881 became Minister of Education in Sofia. In 1884 he became Professor of Universal History in Czech at the Charles University in Prague, and in 1893 Professor of Slavonic Antiquities at the University of Vienna. Not specified Cabinet 160 111 122 98 Bulgaria Sofia Kassabova, Anelia (2013): Inclusion and Exclusion: The Role of Photography in the Nation-Building Process in Bulgaria from Approximately 1860 to World War I. In: Demski, Dagnosław, Ildikó Sz. Kristóf, and Kamila Baraniecka-Olszewska (Eds.): Competing Eyes: Visual Encounters with Alterity in Central and Eastern Europe. Budapest: L‘ Harmattan, 133.