Estonian Photos - Part 5

 Estonian Photos

Here are ten more men from the amazing collection of Estonian photos.

For those of you who haven't seen my previous posts in this series, we know practically nothing about these photos.

We know that they came from the collection of a museum of anthropology in Estonia.  And that's all we know.  The museum provides no information about them.

I'm guessing that these are photos of military recruits, similar to ones taken by the U.S. Army and Navy of recruits during World War II.

But that's just a guess.

If they are military recruits, I'm guessing that they were taken between World War I and World War II, when Estonia was an independent country and would have had its own military.

But that's just a guess.  We have no date for these photos.

If they're not military recruits, could they be college students, and could the photos be similar to the Yale posture photos that I have posted elsewhere?

We don't know, but it seems unlikely, because some of the young men have hands and faces that are either dirty (like coal miners) or tanned (like farm workers).

The look like the Yale posture photos, but they may have been taken for a different purpose.

Some of the U.S. Army and Navy photos were taken to evaluate the change in physical condition of recruits as they went through training.

Is that why these were taken?  We don't know.

In the absence of information, all we can do is speculate, and enjoy these views that the museum preserved for us, front ...

rear ...

and side.

Many more Estonian photos to come.