Gokstad ship on display in a wooden shelter. The 'Gokstad' was excavated in 1880. It was the model for the 'Viking,' a replica built for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
The text on the bottom are related to the photograph's creation: it was made by a Norwegian photographer named O. V�_ring in Oslo (Christiania) in 1912 ('Eneret' translates into copyright).