Historical Community Gatherings

Black and white images showcase diverse groups of people, including girls and families, from various backgrounds in communal settings, reflecting a historical context.

Women and children at the Aherpur Refugee Camp about 45 miles from Calcutta. They are some of the 9.5 million refugees in northeast India during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Nov. 1971.

Anefo photo collection. WI West Indies / Anefo London series. Village Groningen. Surinamese Javanese girls. {1940-1945}. Groningen, Suriname

Description: Rope making from 'coir' obtained by rotting coconut fibre. Picture shows woman uniting three strands into one. Location: Seychelles Date: 1950-1959

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Kepaukoeviews. undated. Guinea

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Photo reportage Palembang. Dutch soldier surrounded by children. January 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Mauke, 1910s, Mauke, by William Saunderson Cooper. Gift of Andrew Cooper, 2001.

Large group of people gathered around some men with musical instruments, Mombasa, Kenya. Photo by Coutinho and Sons, Mombasa, Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection, Africans,Music,1900-1930, Musical instruments,Kenya,Mombasa,1900-1930, Crowds,Kenya,Mombasa,1900-1930.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Clothing ceremony in Kalibedje at Salatiga. Clothing ceremony by the Red Cross in Kalibedje at Salatiga a Universal Carrier passes by. A large group of children overlooks a pagger. November 25, 1947. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies, Salatiga

Travel photos Haiti. Port-au-Prince. Photographer Franz Grasser with a native boy

Interior of a Burmese house set up for weaving; a group portrait of a woman sitting at a loom, a woman standing in front of the loom, and a man and a young girl standing to the left of the loom, circa 1890

Women and children at the Aherpur Refugee Camp about 45 miles from Calcutta. They are some of the 9.5 million refugees in northeast India during the Bangladesh Liberation War. Nov. 1971.

Queen's Day 1905 on the Gouvernementsplein at Buiten-Sociëteit de Park, Paramaribo, 1905 photograph Queen's Day 1905 on the Gouvernementsplein at Buiten-Sociëteit de Park, Paramaribo. Group photo of partying people sitting and standing by a bench. Part of a group of objects from the Wesenhagen family in Suriname. Paramaribo photographic support festivities on events of national importance. public festivities on the occasion of royal events Paramaribo

Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. A young forest landscreen tool at braiding a fish cock. 1947. Suriname

Vintage Photograph. A Korean Mother with her baby in Kemjyun-ri near Pusan South Korea.

Anefo photo collection. Royal visit to Aruba, Queen Juliana on Curacao hostel for poor children. October 3, 1965. Aruba, Curacao

Africa. Native affected by sleeping sickness. Engraving by Thiriat, 1903.

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

Image of residents of Wijk C in Utrecht during the Liberation Party in the Bergstraat.

Two Indian boys sitting in roofed wooden boat, Anonymous, 1920 - 1930,Dutch Indies, Indonesia.

Vintage Photograph. Local girl making articles for tourist trade while waiting for buyers, Kingston, Jamaica

Parents of these Samoan boys died while working at a Papua mission station. Their uncle is taking them home to Samoa to live with relatives. April 11, 1949.

Five male prisoners squatting with hands pressed together amidst a fibrous material in Rangoon, Burma, circa 1915

People sitting in front of a hut in the riot stricken area of Noakhali East Bengal, November 1946, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Mauke black-and-white negatives

Saturday Night In Haiti - This is not the Haiti that tourists see. The sophisticated black babies of port cities take their baths in empty, 5-gallon Standard Oil cans. Like this hand hewn through, the cans are used for a variety of purposes, cooking, laundry, bathing and transport. This Haitian woman and her babies are nearly pure Negroid, but many Haitian blacks have Indian blood. Once a French colony, Haiti is now a republic. French is spoken by all-white, black and mulatto.3 Many native races marry under a system of endogamy. This means a member must marry: Within the tribe ***** husbands: many *****. June 14, 1947. (Photo by The Register & Tribune Syndicate).

Surrees of Siem Reap, Cambodia, Indochina A man carrying palm juice and children carrying baskets, on a road , Léon Busy in Indochina (French - Environs de Siem Reap , Cambodge , Indochine Un homme transportant du jus de palme et et des enfants portant des paniers , sur une route). Costume, portage, road, child, domestic object, man, Clothing, transport, human beings, daily life, Cambodia, on the road (Angkor region)

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

A Haitian peasant woman and her children.. Johnston, Harry Hamilton, Sir, 1858-1927. Photographs, Illustrations. 1910. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. Children, Haitians, Women peasants, Mothers

Indonesian men and women, in the background a European man, presumably on a port site, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Family Album with photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam. photographic support harbour

Sharecroppers, Pulaski County, Arkansas. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Anefo photo collection. Suriname; Images with Santigron. January 15, 1976. Suriname

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Clothing provision in Koripan by the Red Cross. A toddler is dressed. 30 June 1948. Indonesia, Java, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Suriname, meetings; Surinamese television in action, gathering t.g.v. The unveiling of a statue of Father Weidmann. April 1, 1975. Suriname

Chinese children by William henry Jackson, 1843-1942, photographer 1895.

1930s Uganda Woman carrying child ca. 1936.

09/01/1916. At the San Sebastián Horse Races. The Public Crowding at the Mutual Betting Ticket Offices.

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

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Prince Bernhard visiting the Aruban boy scouts on Palm Beach. October 24, 1955. Aruba, Netherlands Antilles

Children in Dharavi slum Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra India Copyright: xHarixMahidhar/DinodiaxPhotox

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Senegal, Andiel, bedik village

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Padang. Liberation Niars by the hunters. Old man with baby. August 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Padang, Sumatra

Anefo photo collection. Zaire (formerly Belgian Congo). Three men behind the table with merchandise. October 24, 1973. Congo, Zaire

Anefo photo collection. Suriname, market life; Policeman arranges traffic. April 1, 1975

Africa, eritrea, otumbo, in a stately 1920-30.

Message Of Liberation -- A Filipino mother and her daughters read a leaflet explaining the mission of Americans in Leyte and listing directions for the civilian population. A series of leaflets containing current information have been dropped by U.S. planes since the initial landing. October 31, 1944. (Photo by USA Signal Corps).

Cotton pickers, Pulaski County, Arkansas. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Photo reportage Palembang. Old woman eats. January 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies, Palembang, Sumatra

Women who were part of the expeditionary force of the Anglo-American Stanley expedition, Central Africa. Journey to unexplored Africa, the mysterious continent by Henry Morton Stanley. Old 19th century engraved illustration, El Mundo Ilustrado 1881

Peach picker, Dorothea Lange

Anefo photo collection. State visit to Indonesia from Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, her majesty hand in hand with dancers. September 9, 1971. Indonesia

Boy dancers dressed as girls, the Yafouba tribe, West Africa, 1936.Artist: Wide World Photos

Children of the colony, libya 1930.

Mahatma Gandhi in a meeting with Sushila Nayar, Rajendra Prasad and Abdul Kalam Maulana Azad at Bhangi Colony in Delhi, 1946, India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

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

Young Watutsi woman carrying a pitcher on her head, Ruanda-Urundi

China's First Lady - Also Knows Something About Work -- Madame Chiang Kai-Shek giving instruction in the cleaning of floors.Madame Chiang Kai-Shek, wife of China's Generalissimo, thinks nothing of rolling up her sleeves and instructing members of the women's war service corps in their work. November 21, 1938. (Photo by Associated Press Photo)

03/31/1932. Assault and robbery in a hamlet in Deusto. Manuel Uzcudun, when he returned from the field, found his wife in the state in which the thieves had left her. Manuel and his Children. Photo: Gil del Espinar -Approximate date.

Kasturba Gandhi and Mahatma Gandhi at Abotabad Peshawar, October 1938 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. And there is the youth: orderly and quiet ... until the wedding ceremony has ended. October 1954. New Guinea

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. The Queen is sung in Albina by a children's choir. October 31, 1955. Albina, Suriname

Portrait of local Gambian man.

The Communist Party of Burma (Burmese: မာပြည်ကွန်မြူနစ်ပါတီ; CPB) is the oldest existing political party in Burma. The party is unrecognised by the Burmese authorities, rendering it illegal; so it operates in a clandestine manner, often associating with insurgent armies along the border of People's Republic of China. It is often referred to as the Burma Communist Party (BCP) by both the Burmese government and the foreign media.

Mahatma Gandhi and a woman cutting vegetables, 1946 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Arfakkers Oransbari. August 1957. Guinea, Oransbari

Untitled gelatin silver negatives, black-and-white negatives, group portraits

Canton, Kwangtung province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Photo reportage on the island of Bangka and the town of Pangkal Pinang. Traditional dance. January 1947. Banka, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Photograp Taken on Christmas Day in Majuro Village Atoll, Marshall IslandsNatives of Majuro Village Atoll, Marshall Islands, celebrate Christmas. This youthful atoll dweller of Majuro is entertaining his guests with a dance or two. Directly behind the smiling performer is Captain Harold B. Grow (USNR), Atoll Commander of Majuro.” Photographer: PhoM1/c BR Barrett.

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi spinning cloth in 1940. Gandhi (2 October 1869 30 January 1948), was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.

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

Mahatma Gandhi convalescing at Juhu Beach, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, Asia, March 1924 Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox www.dinodia.com

In his leisure moments, Bob Tudawali got along famously with baby Leslie who with his mother, May Dingle, appears in the film. The old coach, used by Charles Chauvel as a movie prop, is a relic of the Cobb and Co. days. Her co-star, the handsome Melville Islands Robert Tudawali, made headlines as he grappled with the difficult readjustment from fame to obscurity. April 21, 1954.;In his leisure moments, Bob Tudawali got along famously with baby Leslie who with his mother, May Dingle, appears in t

St. Pierre / Martinique. Fruit carriers. Three indigenous women in long skirts and ruffle blus posing with fruit baskets on the heads

Anefo photo collection. Preparation of independence in Suriname; Den Uyl at orchestra at airport (conductors). November 24, 1975. Suriname

Description: Dor.15425H. Acknowledgement Miss Boutroy, 42, Linden Gdns, W.2. Location: Zanzibar africa

South America, Brazil, Neighbours gather outside their homes in a Favela in Sao Paulo.

Poll photo collection. Netherlands Antilles and Suriname at the time of the royal visit of Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard in 1955. Women's party in the garden, probably at the Surinamese brewery in Paramaribo. October 1, 1955. Paramaribo, Suriname

Mississippi hoodo-doctors.. Photographs. 1926. Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division. African Americans , Folklore, African American men, African Americans , Mississippi, Shamans

Poll photo collection. Apparent skills in the Netherlands. A woman in marker traditional costume in a marker interior drinks from a small bowl. January 1, 1932. Marken, Noord-Holland

Photo collection prints Anefo Rousel. Series Print Anefo RVD Own Without Caption. Collection of photo collection prints Anefo Rousel, photo number 157-0439. 1956

Maum Duck, South Carolina; Doris Ulmann, American, 1882 - 1934; about 1929 - 1930; Platinum print; Image: 20.6 x 15.6 cm (8 1/8 x 6 1/8 in.)

Mexican children. 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

Thailand: a woman breastfeeding a child, standing, with a second child beside her. Photograph, 1880/1900.

Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. DLC Photo reportage on the island of Bangka and the town of Pangkal Pinang. A caught crocodile. On a hand candle the animal is transported, surrounded and followed by many children. January 1947. Banka, Indonesia, Dutch East Indies

Anefo photo collection. Preparation of independence in Suriname; Surinamese boys with flags of the Republic of Suriname. November 24, 1975. Suriname

Vintage Photograph. Native musicians playing instruments.

Swahili women, Africa. Africa, miscellaneous, Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection .

Anefo photo collection. Rika Jansen sees her savior after 32 years back to Curacao, Rika Jansen and her Savior Johnny Martis. January 15, 1965. Curaçao

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Return 188 Migrants Indonesia Wleke Guinea left 30 ago Island Kofiau Sorong. April 1960. Kofiau, Guinea

07/31/1936. Children of the Carabineros from the Ancora Street barracks, who opened a subscription for the Popular Militias.

The little aboriginal child, Eveline Stewart, 6, leads a happy childhood at La Perouse school as does. December 15, 1955.

1930 photo Maum Duck (Mrs. Doctor), South Carolina African American woman wearing large hat and bead necklace, standing, with hands together at waist.

1930s NATIVE AMERICAN CHILD ADMIRING BEADED NECKLACE OF ELDERLY INDIAN MAN SANTA CLARA PUEBLO NEW MEXICO USA

Cotton pickers, 6:30 a.m., Alexander Plantation, Pulaski County, Arkansas, USA, Ben Shahn, U.S. Resettlement Administration, October 1935

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

Africa, congo Belgian, a pygmy hunter, 1927-30.

Mahatma Gandhi on the compound of Birla House, Delhi, 1938 , India NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Girl carrying corn and melons in a tub, South Africa

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