Men's embroidered vest, Szczawnica, Nowy Targ County, Poland, ca. 1938

Muzeum Etnograficzne w Krakowie

Eric Ravilious (British, 1903–1942)

Illustration for The Writings of Gilbert White of Selborne (London: Nonesuch Press, 1938)

V&A

Photographer Lothar Rübelt (Austrian, 1901–1990) in St. Anton am Arlberg, 1938

Rübelt-Negativarchiv, ÖNB

Pyotr Konchalovsky (1876–1956)

"Portrait of the theatre director Vsevolod Meyerhold (1874–1940)", 1938

State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

Meyerhold was a significant figure in symbolist, constructivist, and futurist circles. This portrait was painted about a year before his arrest by the NKVD and his wife's murder. He was tortured and subsequently shot by firing squad in 1940.

Eric Ravilious (British, 1903–1942)

"Pharmaceutical Chemist", illustration from J. M. Richards, High Street (London: Country Life, 1938)

"Magd am Morgen", from Franz Schlögel, Wir Bauern. Von Leuten und Zeiten auf Ackerbreiten (Vienna/Leipzig: Adolf Luser Verlag, 1938)

Illustrations by Grete Hartmann

Cover detail from Franz Schlögel, Wir Bauern. Von Leuten und Zeiten auf Ackerbreiten (Vienna/Leipzig: Adolf Luser Verlag, 1938)

Illustration by Grete Hartmann

A group of Transylvanian Landlers (descendants of Lutherans expelled from the Salzkammergut area of Austria, who settled near Sibiu, Transylvania)

Probably taken in Apoldu de Sus (aka Griszpult/Großpold/Nagyapold), 5 June 1938

The back of the image says “Zur Erinnerung an das Jahr 1938 - Pfingsten” (“In memory of the year 1938 - Pentecost”)

Arhiva de Fotografie

“Cu drag, Tony.”

From a letter written by Romanian artist Nicolae Tonitza (1886-1940) to his wife Ecaterina (1893-1993)

Iași, 4 November 1938

Bulletin boards of Tel Aviv

Photographed by Rudi Weissenstein, 1938-1939

Happy birthday to the writer and lawyer Ionel Teodoreanu, born on this day in 1897 

Ionel Teodoreanu and a group at a literary gathering in Cernăuți, Romania (now Chernivtsi, Ukraine), 1938 

From Nicolae Ciobanu, Ionel Teodoreanu (Bucharest: Minerva, 1970)

Alexandru Bassarab, “Sfânta Fecioara cu Pruncul”

Buna Vestire nr. 327, 10 April 1938

Eric Ravilious (British, 1903-1942)

Illustration for The Natural History of Selborne by Gilbert White (Nonesuch Press, 1938)

Victoria and Albert Museum