Cultural Historical Scenes

Vintage photographs capturing everyday life and cultural moments in various communities, emphasizing shared experiences and traditional activities.

Loretta Cordell serving dinner to Chris Cordell, Richard Anderson, and other residents. People's Temple Agricultural Project. Jonestown, Guyana. Nov. 1978.

Original caption: "Pala. Madelina Costillo and her husband operating a roadside stand, selling their home grown products. They have been quite successful at this venture the past season.". 1936 - 1942. Pacific Region (Riverside, CA). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Office of Indian Affairs. Mission Agency. 11/15/1920-6/17/1946. Photographs

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Residents of the BoslandCloooldorp Wakibasoe. In the middle a woman is busy with a man's braiding hair. 1947. Suriname, Wakibasoe

Loretta Cordell serving dinner to Chris Cordell, Richard Anderson, and other residents. People's Temple Agricultural Project. Jonestown, Guyana. Nov. 1978.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Indonesian woman and man turning something from the ground. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Seville. April 1927. Popular festival in honor of the Prince of Wales at the 1927 Fair. The dancing women play palillos (castanets, outside Seville).

Kiriwina women are attractive and well developed. January 15, 1936.

Anefo photo collection. Gymnastics lesson for Papua Children in Dutch New Guinea. June 5, 1959. New Guinea

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. A Javanese woman in nickerie. 1947. Nickerie, Suriname

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC New Guinea Series: Photos at the article 'Manokwari fourth party' for the magazine Weapon Budders. Men's busy with a game. It looks like they should light a cigarette with the help of a hanging spiral?. October 1948. Indonesia, Manokwari, Dutch East Indies, New Guinea

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Dutch women with musicians and dancers in Barber in Curaçao. October 1, 1955. Barber, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

Native American Hopi children eating a melon, c1903. Photograph by Edward Curtis (1868-1952).

Shelling a nutmeg harvest. A Grenadian woman uses a tool to crack open nutmeg shells against a wooden brick. Grenada, 1965. Grenada, Caribbean, North America .

Anefo photo collection. Immigrants with children from India on arrival Heathrow Airport 23-2-1968. July 14, 1968. India

Eva Braun's Photo Albums, ca. 1913 - ca. 1944. These albums are attributed to Eva Braun (four are claimed by her friend Herta Schneider, nee Ostermeyer) and document her life from ca. 1913 to 1944. There are many photographs of Eva, her sisters and their children, Herta Schneider and her children, as well as photographs of Eva's vacations, family members and friends. Included also are photographs taken by and of Eva Braun at Hitler's chalet Berghof (or Kehlstein), photographs of Hitler and his entourage, visitors to Berghof and the scenery around Berchtesgaden, and some studio portraits of Eva and members of her family.

Anefo photo collection. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard visiting Suriname. Prince Bernhard while putting an Indian headdress; Queen Juliana (l.) In conversation with a girl. October 18, 1965. Jodensavanne, Suriname

Zulu family, zululand, southafrica, africa 1927.

Smedja and ITurskogen, Belg. Congo.

"Tarzans" Of The Philippines -- The physical characteristics of the Ibilao tree men are unlike that associated with the Tarzans of fiction. Their symmetrical body lines make them seem almost feminine and this is further borne out the long hair which is dressed and decorated with white horsehair as shown in the above photograph. February 17, 1939. (Photo by Aleko E. Lilius, Wide World Photos).

Mahatma Gandhi, supported by Amtus Salam, walking with others through fields in the riot effected areas in Noakhali East Bengal, November 1946, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

The basic housing in the slums of Naples, Italy, from where the Scugnizzi, or street urchins of the city often came. The priest Father Mario Borrelli achieved international renown with his campaigns to aid abandoned street children through his Casa dello Scugnizzo (House of the Urchins). Date: circa 1961

E. Ian Downs (with arms outstretched) photo with natives. November 01, 1954. (Photo by Papuan Prints)

Church steps. New Orleans. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Borneo (1947 February). A family stands on the porch of a house that stands on stilts, a boy is standing on the stairs. February 1947. Borneo, Indonesia, Kalimantan, Dutch East Indies

Italy. Summer Camp. Little Girls Dancing In The Garden. 1910-20

Seated in a half circle in front of member of "The Blue Lagoon" unit, natives of Tamasua prepare for a party in honour of Jean Simmons 19th birthday by preparing a native root drink "Kava", which is to the Fijians what tea is to the English. Here is seen the water being added to the crushed roots. Jeans was given this party during location shooting of "The Blue lagoon" in the Fiji Islands. "The Blue Lagoon" is an Individual picture in Technicolor, adapted from the novel of the same name by Hyde Vere Stacpoole. December 14, 1951. (Photo by J. Arthur Rank Organisation Ltd.).

Agatha Harrison, Shanti Harilal Gandhi s grandson, Mahatma Gandhi, Chakravarti Rajagopalachari and others in Madras, 1946, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

The vegetable market in the Chinese New Village of Ampong near Kuala Lumpur. Women returning from their days work pause to make purchases. December 20, 1955. (Photo by Ross/Fairfax Media).

The Royal Tour: Ceylon -- One of the famous Kandyan Temple Dancers rehearses the dance he will perform on the 19th April when the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh visit Kandy. April 12, 1954. (Photo by Rosemary Gilliat, Camera Press).

Auction sales in Greene County are frequent because as farm conditions became worse families move into smaller houses and sell excess furniture. Owensburg, Indiana 1938. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Description: Kamberi africa

Cambodia, Indochina a peasant and her children , Léon Busy in Indochina (French - Cambodge , Indochine Une paysanne et ses enfants). Woman, child, portrait, peasant, nudity, accessory, hairstyle , headgear, Human beings, clothing, Cambodia, Cambodian peasant

Music At Night -- After the sun falls on a Prattville, Ala. Plantation gather in their cabins for an evening of dancing and singing. Here they are shown warming up to the music of Guitar Chords. February 9, 1937. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Company at a party, probably journalists and probably in Curaçao. October 1, 1955. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Photo reportage Palembang. Group of children and women with eating utensils and baskets. January 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Fishermen in lower Subansiri district Arunachal Pradesh India 1982 Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox

Fra West children Georgina Simpson, 10, of Lightning Ridge, and Joan Allan, 10, of Pilliga, peer through the wire cage at wild horses at Taronga Park Zoo. They are members of a party of Far West children, now guests at the Manly homes. January 18, 1951.

Local people in costume at cultural event in Tuvalu, South Pacific

Description: St. Lucia - Soufriere. On a bank holiday the men play games or dance to Calypso Music. Location: St Lucia, Soufriere, St Lucia Date: 1910-1950 caribbean, saintlucia, caribbeanthroughalens

Anefo photo collection. Princely couple in Suriname, population in Albina shows great interest during visitors. July 12, 1966. Albina

A barber at work in Ceylon (Sri Lanka). Date: 1893

People, ruanda urundi, Belgian Congo, africa 1910-20.

A rich Cameroonian with his wives (shot by the Germans)

Two long lines of women and children process through a street in Winneba, lined with trees and buildings, as others look on. All are smartly dressed. A small group of children in white dresses and bonnets walk up the middle of the street between the lines. Captioned in the negative: Winnebah. Good Friday 1919. Native procession.

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. funeral Jacob Kafiar, rescues victims "Neutron" disaster, parties present. February 1958. Guinea

Grenada's Busy Fingers Keep off The Sun -- Josephine Sitney has opened a hat shop in Grenville, a small country town in Grenada. She has been there 18 months. All her hats are painted - some in a white enamel - and are decorated with ribbon and net. This has introduced a new vogue in Grenada and elevated to straw hat into the military status. January 1, 1951. (Photo by Central Office of Information Photograph).

Portrait of an Unidentified Fijian Chief, 1906, by Leslie Hinge.

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. The Kotomisi Pauline in Nickerie. November 2, 1955. Nickerie, Suriname

Mahatma Gandhi walking with two visitors at Sevagram Ashram, 1940 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Uganda. From Hoima to Fort Portal. Hut with native young women and children. 1936, Uganda

Catalunya. Lleida. Campesino recogiendo maíz en un campo de Mollerusa. Año 1960.

Anefo photo collection. Suriname, the heirs, poverty; People between their crate homes. April 1, 1975

African American Mother and Child on Bed in their Cabin near Jefferson, Texas. Artist: Russell Lee (American, 1903-1986). Dimensions: 18.2 x 24.3 cm (7 3/16 x 9 9/16 in. ). Date: 1939. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Nikola Drakulic (photographer). Locals. An old man. March 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. In the palm garden in Coronie, workers open the coconuts and the coconut milk is poured out. 1947. Coronie, Suriname

""Miss Funa Futi"". On the tiny island of Funa Futi, one of the Ellice Group in the South Pacific, this small miss poses with becoming modesty, wearing her sarong a-la Dorothy Lamour.

Suva, 1910s, Viti Levu, by William Saunderson Cooper. Gift of Andrew Cooper, 2001.

Ma'uke gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives

Traditional Women's Dance black-and-white negatives

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Red Cross Activity Semarang. An employee of the Red Cross and locals. July 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Mahatma Gandhi, spinning inside a building at Chaumuhani Noakhali East Bengal, 20th November 1946, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Mahatma Gandhi walking with Sushila Nayar, Sushila Pai, Abha Gandhi, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and Abdul Kalam Maulana Azad at Bhangi Colony in Delhi, 1946, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

... they speak of the prowess of the surf board riders from the island who glide like birds on the giant waves.The dancers manipulate feather covered coconut shell rattles. October 28, 1955.

Modern sculptors were objects of wonderment to festival sight seers. May 19, 1955.

Weaving is a specialty of women in the village. Products of their looms are sold in larger villages 25 miles away through the Lush Jungles. July 8, 1955. (Photo by United Press).

Chinese men and boys on street around pile of logs

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Marriages on Lag Baomer. Haifa. Wedding ceremony under a 'choepa'; The moment the bride traditionally runs seven times around the groom (a soldier). January 1, 1948. Haifa, Israel

Prince Tuipelehake talks with Lieut.col. Voelker and Mr J.B.D. Pennink, Minister for the Netherlands, both commissioners at the conference. Adjoining them are the Hon. Tamasese of Samoa, and U.S. Commissioner Milton Shalleck.September 20, 1951. (Photo by Rob Wright)

Anefo photo collection. Papua couple. 1940-1945}

Hanoi Vietnam, Morning Excercises by Hoan Kiem Lake (NR)

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Sewell (right) of the gold mine in De Jong South with Mr Michels. 1947. De Jong Zuid, Suriname

Kasturba Gandhi going in a bullock cart to meet her son Harilal s son-in-law Kuvarji Parekh at Sevagram Ashram, 1938 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the Royal Visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Mrs. Van de Poll in a BoslandCreole village. October 1, 1955. Suriname

Standing Javanese woman. Standing Javanese woman, right a man with a gamelan. Photo with corners attached on a page of an album leaf in the photo album over the family's family and life and work in the Mijnstad Moengo in Suriname around 1927.

South Asian Indian working girl child lifting basket on head, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia

Description: The new Governor, Sir Kenneth Maddocks, K.C.M.G., receiving the customary bilo of yagona during the traditional Fijian welcome extended to him in Suva. Location: Suva, Fiji fiji, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens

A French - speaking Louisiana Negro and his grandchild.. Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927. Photographs, Illustrations. 1910 - 1910. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. New Orleans (La.), Creoles, African American families

P.E class in Sri Lanka. Artist: CM Dixon Artist: Unknown

US Marine Corporal W. E. Neal, attached to 3/5 during Operation Union on May 2, 1967, is seen shaving with a Vietnamese child holding a mirror for him. This photograph depicts a moment of personal hygiene and highlights the interaction between American troops and local children during the Vietnam War.

In bombed out Tokyo, these Japanese mothers carry their small children on their backs and dress them in bright floral clothing. October 14, 1941. (Photo by Australian Official Photo).

Family and ancestor photo frames Versova Mumbai Maharashtra India Asia 1977 Copyright: xJagdishxAgarwal/DinodiaxPhotox

01/31/1922. From the Prince of Wales's trip to India. The Salutations of the Dancers to the Prince (X), during a "Garden-Party" Held at the Governor's Residence of Rangoon.

Description: Camp Warden Mr. Stephen Chiu providing the music for communal singing. Location: Silvermine Bay, Hong Kong Date: 1962 hongkong, asia, asiathroughalens

Mexican children in kitchen. San Antonio, Texas. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Texas , San Antonio, Texas , Bexar County

Sudanese boy, sudan, africa 1920 1930.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Sport festivals to tour, Krebet and surroundings on April 30. Dutch militai with Indonesian scarf around his neck between two Indonesian dancers. April 1949. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Boy sleeping and holding a basket, India Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox

Atrocities of the Rubber Slavery in the Belgian Congo. Mongala (left) and Biasia (right) arms were shattered by gunshots of 'rubber sentries' who attacked their village when it failed to meet its rubber tax quota. Mola Enuliti's (center) hands were smashed by sentries' rifle butts.

Two African American women stand outside Parkland Hospital in Dallas, mourning President John Kennedy's death. November 22, 1963.

A group of Papuans in Hollandia, Dutch New Guinea, welcome the news that the Indonesian claim to Dutch New Guinea has been refused by the United Nations. The picture shows them carrying a portrait of Queen Juliana as they demonstrate their loyalty. January 15, 1955.

Photo collection Government information service. New Guinea. undated. New Guinea

Unknown young woman with a little girl. Okänd ung kvinna med en liten flicka.

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. Visit Minister of Lorders to New Guinea Minister of Lorders Take part in a dance in Waigama. November 1957. New Guinea

'The Drums of Africa - in the Village of Ikoko on Lake Ntomba in Belgian Congo', c1930s. Lake Tumba in the Democratic Republic of the Congo is inhabited by the Mongo people. Leopold II of Belgium acquired rights to the Congo at the Berlin Conference in 1885, the Belgian Congo gained independence in 1960. From "Tour of the World". Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa., New York, Chicago, London

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Musician with a musical instrument made from a heel, probably in Curaçao. October 1, 1955. Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles

A slave boy of the Masarwa tribe - subjugated by the Bamangwatos - watches cattle drink. He has no name. He gets no pay. He is merely fed. He works hard, but he knows no other life. July 05, 1950. (Photo by Bert Hardy, Picture Post).;A slave boy of the Masarwa tribe - subjugated by the Bamangwatos - watches cattle drink. He has no name. He gets no pay. He is merely fed. He works hard, but he knows no other life.

First Lady Jacqueline Kennedys (JBK) tea for wives of new ambassadors. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy hosts a tea party for wives of new ambassadors; guests pose in front of the grand staircase in the Entrance Hall, White House, Washington, D.C. Guests include: Neila Zouiten Bourguiba (wife of Ambassador Habib Bourguiba, Jr. of Tunisia); Mrs. Frédéric Guirma of Upper Volta; Mrs. Sergio Fenoaltea of Italy; Helena Drozniak (wife of Ambassador Edward Drozniak of Poland); Mrs. Michel Gallin-Douathe of Central African Republic; Seelawathie Rambukwella Gopallawa (wife of Ambassador William Gopallawa of Ceylon); Mrs. Matrika Prasad Koirala of Nepal; Nepalese interpreter Bhinda Malla; Mrs. Il Kwon Chung of South Korea; Mrs. Emmanuel Damongo Dadet of Congo; Virginia Rusk (wife of Secretary of State Dean Rusk); Mrs. Ousmane Diop of Senegal; Mrs. Seydou Conte of Guinea.

... they tell of the beauty of Ho'oipo. October 28, 1955.

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