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SOKOL POSTCARDS and Poster Stamps 1907 - V - Prague (Click on any image to view an enlarged version) Official poster for the 1907 Slet, by Karel Šimůnek The fifth festival, on the 25th anniversary of the 1st Slet, was the first "great" festival. According to one source, it lasted four weeks, though the dates on the postcards here span four days, June 28 through July 1. A crowd of nearly 100,000 watched presentations by 7,600 men and 2,500 women in a huge new stadium. Foreign teams and delegations from 26 countries participated. National dance exhibitions were presented, and huge historical pageants were enacted as part of the spectacle for the first time. A chess match with human game pieces in costumes, including men on horses as the knights, was played on a giant chess board in the stadium. More than 15,000 sokols marched in the procession.         Above, a postcard with the official image for the event, and four fund-raising labels with the same image (each stamp is about one inch tall) - note the space on the back of the card where the stamp was to be affixed. The artist was Mikoláš Aleš (1862-1913). His signature "A - 1906" is visible by the horse's tail.   Saint Peter is being petitioned to make the sun shine on the festival! Artist: Lada Novak (1865-1944).   Postcard with a revised version of the official poster for the festival. (Artist: Karel Šimůnek) There were MANY postcards issued for this festival. The cards below are ones for which I have no information - if you can provide something of interest about any of them, please write me at the e-dress at the bottom of the page.             artist: František Ženišek (1849-1916)         Group exercises for this festival were performed to music. The cards below show the exercise sequences, and the score for the musical accompaniment. Men's Exercises I thru V (two versions of III)                   Women's Exercises II, III, V         Photos of the games, showing the immense stadium and huge numbers of participants.             The card below is for the Sokol unit in Lwow, then part of Austria-Hungary, later of Poland. It is now the main city in western Ukraine, and is called L'viv. This card is of special interest to me, since my grandparents were all from that area of Ukraine. ------- Below, an unused card described as "Bulgarian Sokol visitors to the V. Slet." The white caps identify them as members of Yunak, rather than Sokol. See the YUNAK page for the full story.   --------- LOCAL CARD Photo of the Sokol group in Kyjov

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