An exhibition featuring archival photos on Vietnam at the beginning of the 20th century is taking place in the capital city of Hanoi.

The event at the National History Museum showcases more than 50 file pictures taken by the French Academy of the Far East (EFEO).

The photos also capture the academy’s activities in Vietnam last century in many fields including archeology, ethnology, linguistics, and museology.

The exhibition is scheduled to run until March this year. Since opening a center in Hanoi in 1993, the more-than-100-year-old research institution EFEO has served as a link between French and European scholars and their Vietnamese counterparts in humanities and social sciences.

It has given a new impetus to French research in Vietnamese studies.

The center’s research interests focus on pre-modern and contemporary history, epigraphy, anthropology, and archaeology.

Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper introduces some of the displayed photos which reflect daily life in Vietnam during the period.

Bat Trang Village during the 1926 flood

A crowd following the Nam Giao Offering Ritual

A village gate in northern Vietnam in 1930

Kids catching fish in the northern province of Thanh Hoa in 1937

A fortune-teller sitting at Ghenh Temple in Hanoi

Folk paintings sold on a Hanoi street

Catching fish

A sacred banyan tree in Co Loa Town in the northern province of Phuc Kien (now Hanoi)

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