3-053-670 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The Vienna Exhibition: in the Styrian Alpine Hut; in the Austrian Dairy, 1873. 'In the case of the occupants of the various strange-looking houses, cottages, and huts which have been constructed and furnished after precise models, and chiefly by the Imperial Government itself, the system is very different. The attendants in these all really belong to the districts they profess to have come from, and are delighted with any guests who are able to address them in their own rude patois. This is especially the case with the milkmaids attached to the Austrian dairy, and the old woman and her two daughters who occupy the Styrian Alpine hut. Their characteristic features and costume are well delineated by our Artist'. From "Illustrated London News", 1873.