Taking snaps of boarding school pupils, 1915.
Photographs taken by monks in the Benedictine Abbey at Engelberg provide a rare glimpse of early 20th-century life behind the monastery walls. A total of 120 photographs were assembled by Marianne Noser und Emil Mahnig. The book Suchende im Bild ("Looking in pictures") was published this year by the Neue Zürcher Zeitung group.
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The Kloster's idyllic garden, 1932.
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Working at the plough.
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Decorative lamps made in the Kloster workshop still illuminate the Abbey today, 1934.
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An unusual tug-of-war, class photo 1937.
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Curious ears tune in to a phonograph, 1901
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Young stargazers take turns at the telescope, July 14, 1920.
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Reflections in the Engelberg forest.
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A Sunday out, 1912.
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A pilgrim prepares to depart to Jerusalem, 1908.
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Coming down the mountain.
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Mind your cassock, father.
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Skating in the shadow of the Hutstock, January 30, 1927.
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