Found Photographs of Life in 1920’s Hungary

The large majority of the photographers are unknown, likewise their subjects.

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life

Boy on a Rocking Horse, 1920.

Fortepan is an online archive of found and donated photographs. The archive is based in the former Forte photo-chemical factory in Vac, Hungary. The factory gave Fortepan its name.

Ákos Szepessy, Miklós Tamási and their friends began collecting discarded photographs in the 1980s. These were mainly negatives. In 2015, a fire damaged and destroyed many of these negatives. With the help of the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center, all of the remaining negatives and photographs were digitised and uploaded to an online site. As of August 2020, there were 140,000 images from 1900-1990 in the archive.

The large majority of the photographers are unknown, likewise their subjects.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life

Mother and Daughter, 1920.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life

Summer Party, 1920.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture

Mother and Son, 1921.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Children in the Garden, 1921.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Family Portrait, 1921.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Studio Portrait of a Boy, 1922.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Swimmers, 1922.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family, Christmas

A Mother and Father dressed in each other’s clothes with their Son on Christmas Day, 1922.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Woman in a Hammock, Summer 1923.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Three Men, 1923.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Woman on a Rocking Chair, Summer 1923.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Two Nurses by a Riverbank, 1924.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Young Women with a dog, in the garden listening to a Gramophone, 1924.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Doctors, 1924.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Portrait of a Schoolteacher, 1925.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

A Bride and a Woman in Uniform, 1925.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

A Day Out, 1925.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Portrait of a Woman in front of Billboards, 1926.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Fashionable Friends, 1926.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Outside of the Family Business, 1926.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

On the Beach, 1926.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Climbers, 1927.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Mr. Pharmacist, 1927.

 

:Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Family Portrait, 1927.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Portrait of a Young Girl and Her Toys, 1928.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Smokers, 1928.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Best Friends, 1928.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

A Day Out, 1929.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Brother and Sister, 1929.

 

Fortepan, photography, 1920s, Hungary, digital, life, portraiture, family

Friends, 1929.

 

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