Cultural Historical Scenes

Black and white images capturing significant cultural moments and gatherings, reflecting diverse histories and traditions.

Vintage Photograph. Women and girls carrying pots on their head at a market in Timbuktu, French West Africa

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Dancers in the village of Moengotapoe from the AucanerboslandCreoles. October 31, 1955. Moengotapoe, Suriname

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Photo reportage Palembang. Residents eat food from the food. January 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Group of people assembled under tree to listen to revival rally on Saturday afternoon, Tahlequah, Oklahoma. 1939. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Oklahoma , Tahlequah, Oklahoma , Cherokee County

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the Royal Visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Dancers in the BoslandCloooldorp Moengotapoe. October 31, 1955. Moengotapoe, Suriname

Belgian refugees with their bicycles and possessions outside the Gare du Nord, Paris, July 1940. Artist: Unknown

Vintage Photograph. Women and girls carrying pots on their head at a market in Timbuktu, French West Africa

A legacy ward presented a bouquet to the Queen at Kalgoorlie. April 8, 1954.

Impressions from the USSR 1972, UZB, Uzbekistan, Asia

Mahatma Gandhi, smiling Birla House, Mumbai, August 1942, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Papuans sit curiosity hallway office local government Agats (South Guinea). November 1955. Agats, Guinea

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Javanese party in Paramaribo. October 1, 1955. Paramaribo, Suriname

1940s AFRICAN AMERICAN BOY STANDING WATCHING GIRL WEAVING BASKET AT STAND WITH SEVERAL BASKETS FOR SALE SOUTH CAROLINA USA

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Eronewacht in the village of Moengotapoe of the AucanerboslandCreoles. October 31, 1955. Moengotapoe, Suriname

Travel photos Senegal. Huts of the village and locals. View with young mothers

Anefo photo collection. Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo). Group of people at road in the countryside. October 24, 1973. Congo, Zaire

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Shooting Indian life. Street images. Street stylist. August 24, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Not the latest style in headdress but just a convenient way of getting around with your wares! Madras street pedlar goes off in search of buyers for his plaster casts which appear to be of Queen Victoria. May 1, 1952. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Surabaya. An Indonesian woman gets new clothing piece of fabric from a European man. 1946. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Joseon Era, Korea, 1890-1900. Street scene showing a public school with poor children and their teacher.

Street traders Date: 1992

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Elections Guinea Council. Village Head home decorated Palm leaves, villagers enter inside cast vote electoral buttons, choose Guinea council Hollandia environment. January 1961. Guinea

Mexican Migrants & Immigration

Anefo photo collection. Kampong Makassar Batavia. European women and children on the right is a man. January 5, 1946. Batavia, Indonesia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Musicians Manganaai Flute Orchestra. undated. Mangourai, Guinea

Little boy, wearing a kind of romper suit, makes mud pies when left to amuse himself. June 1, 1949. (Photo by Steven Henry, Pictorial Press).

Two ladies, faces covered off to the well to fetch water , Rajasthan , India

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Shooting Indian life. Street images. A Dutch woman buys flowers at a florist. August 24, 1948. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Card game at a Javanese party in Paramaribo. October 1, 1955. Paramaribo, Suriname

Mexico

Travel Photos Orient. snake charmer

Photograph shows male figures in an Indonesian home cooking sugar spikes. Dutch East Indies, known as modern Indonesia. Dated c1935.

Mexico City (Mexico), December 1981. Scene of a typical Mexican market, known as tianguis.

Image represents a crew member in white summer uniform hugging a woman.The background shows another crewman who photographs the event.The picture is taken in conjunction with the lighting of the river fairway 1966-1967 .. The picture represents a crew member in white summer uniform hugging about a woman.The background shows another crewman who photographs the event.The picture is taken in conjunction with the remedy of the river Fast Baby journey 1966-1967.Included in albums with photographs from Älvsnabben's long journey 1966-1967.She declined 10/11 1966 from Karlskrona and went through the Suez Canal to Australia, US West Coast, through the Panama Canal via Dublin home to Marstrand 6/5 1967. The album contains images on board and on the visits you made in land.King Carl XVI Gustaf went on this trip and there was therefore a photographer on board.The album has belonged to Oskar Linde.

Historic image in black and white of a mother with young daughter rolling grist with rolling pin by hand to make tortillas, El Salvador circa 1920; El Salvador

Locals attending traditional welcome ceremony for honoured guests in Honiara, Solomon Islands, South Pacific

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Red Crimes in Tjiandjoer (Cianjur) and surroundings. The hand of a little girl is being investigated. June 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Travel photos Senegal. Locals and tourists

Mauke, 1914, Mauke, by William Saunderson Cooper. Gift of Andrew Cooper, 2001.

Poll photo collection. Middle East 1950-1955: Jordan. Children outside for their school in the refugees camp Hussein near Amman. 1950. Amman, Jordan

Vintage Photograph. Women and children washing clothes and bathing in river, Madagascar

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Forest cave wives at the nocturnal awasadans. 1947. Suriname

Anefo photo collection. Kaat Mossel visits Rotterdam / affected. August 27, 1958. Rotterdam, South Holland

Three women stand holding a ventriloquist dummy , Puppets. Jack Miller Collection

Rear View of African-American Woman wearing a "I Have a Dream" Jacket Walking through Mud in Shantytown known as "Resurrection City", Washington, D.C., USA, photographer Thomas J. O'Halloran, Marion S. Trikosko, May 24, 1968

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Kotomisi Pauline dressed in party clothes in red, white, blue and with portraits of Queen Wilhelmina, Princess Juliana and Prince Bernhard. October 1947. Nickerie, Suriname

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Street scene with Javanese street seller in the Jodenbreestraat in Paramaribo. October 1, 1955. Paramaribo, Suriname

Ian Downs (reaching downward) with *****. November 19, 1954. (Photo by Papuan Prints)

A refugee young boy is sleeping on the ground, under a sheet on a carpet in a house. Six-Day War. Amman (Jordan), 1967.

Malaysia. Singapore. children in the typical suspended cradle. 1959.

Galla sisters of the Abanossa tribe, *****. December 11, 1938.

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Forest landscreen women at the nightly awasadans. 1947. Suriname

Image portrays two women in local clothes sitting on a lawn in puntarenas while crew members in white uniforms from the mincoat river still standing before and taking cards.The picture is taken in connection with the ship's league 1966-1967 .. The picture represents two women in local clothes sitting on a lawn in the puntarenas while herdors in white uniforms from the mincoat river facet stand in front of and take cards.The picture is taken in connection with the ship's league 1966-1967.Included in albums with photographs from Älvsnabben's long journey 1966-1967.She declined 10/11 1966 from Karlskrona and went through the Suez Canal to Australia, US West Coast, through the Panama Canal via Dublin home to Marstrand 6/5 1967. The album contains images on board and on the visits you made in land.King Carl XVI Gustaf went on this trip and there was therefore a photographer on board.The album has belonged to Oskar Linde.

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. The queen arrives in Moengotapoe. On the right a management officer. October 1955. Moengotapoe, Suriname

Anefo photo collection. Suriname, market life; Old woman sitting on the street. April 1, 1975

Poll photo collection. Israel: Nazareth. Boy left in the weather at cages of a pulley, boy right standing at vegetable store. undated. Galilee, Israel, Nazareth

Mitakta with two of his children ***** He fears that monogamy ** rob him of his chiefly *****.For years there has been a bloodless war in the Trobriand Islands of Papua. Tall, graceful Mitakata, headman of Omarakana village and paramount chief of the Trobriands, is fighting for his 23 wives. Missionaries have told him it is sinful to have more than one wife. Mitakata can't see his sin. His uncle, To'uluwa, who was paramount chief before him, had 60 wives in his heyday. Then came the white man with his new-fangled ideas and when To'uluwa I died his spouses numbered only 27. July 27, 1955.

Anefo photo collection. Summer pictures on the beach along the North Sea coast. 30 June 1953. North Sea

Poll photo collection. Israel 1960-1965: Bedouins in Beersjewa (Beer Sheva). Bedouian women in traditional clothing on the market, behind them some donkeys. January 1, 1960. Beersjewa, Israel

Mahatma Gandhi, accompanied by Amtus Salam, leaving his hut at Sevagram Ashram, 1939 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Boys playing with model boat

African American flood refugees vaccinated for typhoid at Camp Louisiana, near Vicksburg. Many would have joined the 'Great Migration' to northern cities, but authorities isolated them in unhealthy camps until the flood subsided, hence preserving their low paid agricultural workforce. May 21, 1927.

Children performing in a drill for the defense of Communist-held territory

The moment every father waits for - the moment when the new baby comes home. The small, slightly squirming, soft bundled baby in the arms of a man who probably feels curiously big and clumsy....The fragile, velvety hand reaching out and catching father's finger for a second...The father in both these pictures is Freddie Mills, whose hands won the world light-heavyweight boxing title. But those hands are as gentle as any father's when he holds seventeen-day-old Susan in his arms. July 07, 1952. (Photo by Daily Mirror).

Mahatma Gandhi walking with Abha Gandhi and Rajkumari Amrit Kaur at Sevagram Ashram, 1940 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

WI Favors western style clothing; his brother Kalano is conservative, sticks to a more traditional cut. But they both painted their faces from the same paint pot. They worked on the building of the kunai grass hut behind them. December 19, 1948.

Mexico

Woman with child, mexico

Vintage Photograph. Women gathered around a Taureg Tent, Timbuktu, French West Africa

12/31/1936. Women who gave birth during the siege of the sanctuary of the Virgen de la Cabeza.

Detachment 101, an enigmatic Allied intelligence and special operations unit during World War II, played a pivotal role in the Burmese theater. Operating deep in the jungles of Burma, their mission was multi-faceted, encompassing guerrilla warfare, espionage, and sabotage against Japanese forces. Comprising a diverse group of individuals, from OSS agents to indigenous fighters, they effectively disrupted Japanese supply lines, gathered critical intelligence, and supported resistance movements.

Result of terrorist acts & government measures. Russian police-woman searching Jewish female for arms at the Jaffa Gate. 1938, Jerusalem

Mussolini's Daughter Presents Prizes at Italian Sports and Edgware: The Countess Ciano daughter of Signor Mussolini who is now paying a visit to London, presented the prizes this afternoon at the sports held at the Banco Commerciale Italiana ground at Edgware organised by seven London Italian schools. The Countess Ciano presenting a banner to a girl Fascist ***** the meeting this afternoon. June 17, 1934. (Photo by Keystone).

Anefo photo collection. Arriving Vietnamese "Boat refugees" at Schiphol; Vietnamese wrapped in blankets. December 7, 1978. Noord-Holland, Schiphol

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. Nickerie district secretary during office hours in New Nickerie. 1947. Nickerie, Suriname

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. Braiding baskets in Kepi. August 1957. New Guinea

Group of Young Schoolboys playing during Recess, Alexander Community School, Greene County, Georgia, USA, Jack Delano, U.S. Farm Security Administration, U.S. Office of War Information Photograph Collection, November 1941

Lord Albemarle To Read to His Family -- Lady Albemarle and Ann-Louise listen closely as the Earl reads an item out of a book entitled "Small Sailing Craft". Boating in all forms is Anne-Louise's favourite hobby. - Setting is the sun terrace at Beacon Hill. February 01, 1951. (Photo by Tom Blau, Camera Press).

"Look Out For Natives" - Skin - Deep Civilization In Johannesburg, South Africa - Young Zulu gold miners staging dance in their compound. Tomtons beat as they chant the opening strains. March 14, 1938. (Photo by Pix Publishing Inc.).

Photo collection Government information service. Woman and child engaged in editing batik fabrics. undated. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

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

Poll photo collection. Israel 1948-1949: Kibbets Kiwath Brenner. Wounded soldiers and their family members sitting in a garden at Kiwath Brenner, presumably at the sanatorium. January 1, 1948. Israel, Rehovot

The Royal Tour Of ia -- Wearing tall feathered head-dresses these Ihitenansa girls from Orlu, Owerri Province, gave a lively Igbakwu dance before H.M. The Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh during their visit to Enugu, Eastern Region of ia. February 23, 1955. (Photo by Sport & General Press Agency Limited).;The Royal Tour Of ia -- Wearing tall feathered head-dresses these Ihitenansa girls from Orlu, Owerri Province, gave a lively Igbakwu dance before H.M. The Queen and the Duke of Ed

The Tumulus of Marathon, Greece, 1937.Artist: Martin Hurlimann

Anefo photo collection. Flats cracked in Bijlmermeer by working group Housing Surinamese; Surinamese children in cracked flat. 28 June 1974. Amsterdam, Bijlmermeer

Victory Marchers Camp in London- Accommodation in Kensington Gardens, London, England, UK, 1946 A West African soldier shaves in preparation for the Victory Parade in London. He is sitting on a blanket on the grass beside the tented camp in which he, and many other soldiers, are staying, in Kensington Gardens.

Pictures of dancers and drummers at the Tchechu festival in Paro Bhutan Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox

1930S Two Boys Playing Trick With String Tied To Lost Purse

Tongan woman in traditional clothes, making Kava. 1950

Photograph by Johann Victor Krämer depicting scenes from his travels, showing landscapes, architecture, and urban environments captured around 1900.

People walking a muddy street in the Zabaleen district at Mokattam Hill in Cairo,Egypt.

Anefo photo collection. State visit Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard to Indonesia, Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard arrive Bandung, many people along the way. August 29, 1971. Bandung, Indonesia, Indonesia, Java

black and white photo, A woman threshing rice or paddy by bullocks, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia

Poll photo collection. Zegeis with MS Baleran Rotterdam Lloyd. Street scene in a village with a river or canal in the background. Man with bowl of breads on his head .. 1935. Egypt

Shinto priests in a funeral procession for 'Hitachi Maru' victims, Tokyo, Japan, 1905. Artist: HC White

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