Historical Cultural Portraits

Vintage photographs depicting traditional attire and poses from different cultures, reflecting historical settings.

A beautiful young dancing girl from Constantinople, Turkey, holding a tamborine Date: circa 1909

Tipy narodnostei turkestanskago kraia. Cholak-Kazachki. Chini-kyz | Library of Congress

Deux femmes arabes. Zangaki (Greek, Cypriot or Turkish, active Egypt 1860s - 1880s)

Portrait of Ahmed Khan, a man with an estate near Hyderabad, c. 1862 - in or before 1872 photograph Sindh photographic support albumen print human races; peoples; nationalities. head-gear: hat

Anton Sax, Fleischhauer at the Macart Festival , Carl Karl Mahlknecht -, photographer

Peasant woman standing, holding a basket with a long pole and net. Louis De Mauny (French, active 1860s)

Russian woman in traditional folk costume ca. before 1917.

Zouave and Spahi, Attendants of Maréchal Pelissier.. Roger Fenton (English, 1819 - 1869)

Indian Amateur s Photographic Album Bombay Mumbai Maharashtra India NO MR Copyright: xJehangirxSorabjee/DinodiaxPhotox

A beautiful young dancing girl from Constantinople, Turkey, holding a tamborine Date: circa 1909

from a photography album with images of Japan, 19th-20th century, 9 9/16 x 7 1/2 in. (24.29 x 19.05 cm) (sheet)9 x 13 x 1 1/2 in. (22.9 x 33 x 3.8 cm) (album, closed), Hand-tinted gelatin silver print, Japan, 19th-20th century

Young Indian frost. Studio portrait of a young Indian frost with sword. Sticked photo in the photo album entitled: Faces of Java.

George K Warren, Portrait of a Man (recto), c 1862 1864 Portrait of a Man recto

Portrait of two unknown Syrian women, veiled, c. 1867 - c. 1877 photograph Part of a group of photos collected by photographer Richard Polak on travel. This photo was exhibited together with other photos collected on his journeys at the Rotterdamsche Kunstkring (1895), Arti and Amicitiae in Amsterdam (1897-1898) And Societeit 't Collegie in Kampen (Date for the time being unknown). Ottoman Empire paper. cardboard albumen print historical persons not known by name - BB - woman. veil Syria

Bearded man posing in long, dark coat and wool hat; William Carrick (Scottish, 1827 - 1878); Russia; about 1860 - 1870; Albumen silver print

Native of Bhootan. Possibly Sir Benjamin Simpson (British, 1831 - 1923)

Group Portrait of Men, India. Unknown

Portrait of an unknown woman from a Sindhi tribe, c. 1862 - in or before 1872 photograph Sindh photographic support albumen print human races; peoples; nationalities. head-gear (with NAME)

Portret van Rugnath sahai uit aligarh, c. 1858 - in or before 1868 photograph Aligarh photographic support albumen print human races; peoples; nationalities

Portrait of a standing Indonesian man, Woodbury & Page, 1857 - 1880 Photograph. visit card This photo is part of an album. Java photographic support. cardboard albumen print historical persons

Shoeshine boys. Carlo Naya, photographer (Italian, 1816 - 1882) 1876 Portrait of five boys gathered just outside the entrance to a building with brushes and foot rests to shine shoes. One of the boys stands against the wall with one arm raised and resting on the door frame, and his companions sitting around him. (Recto, print) lower right, handwritten in the negative: "2"

Jasieński Feliks on the balcony of his Krakow apartment (corner of the Market Square and St. Jana Street) in a kimono and samurai helmet

Arabic cultural life, dervishes from Bukhara, Uzbekistan today, photo from 1880 / Arabisches Kulturleben, Derwische aus Buchara, heute Usbekistan, Foto aus 1880, Historisch, historical, digital improved reproduction of an original from the 19th century / digitale Reproduktion einer Originalvorlage aus dem 19. Jahrhundert,.

Grèce. Femme Grecque a la fontaine , Peasants, Clothing & dress, Wells, Pottery. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

A mid-19th century albumen portrait by Wenzel Weis showing a woman. The photograph focuses on facial features, attire, and studio photographic methods of 1856-1859.

Aslak Piersen.

Yakonins in Fire Dress; Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909); Japan; 1866 - 1867; Hand-colored Albumen silver print

Portrait of an Egyptian woman with a jug on the head, anonymous, c. 1895 - in or before 1905 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Greece and Egypt. Egypt paper collotype adult woman. carrying something on the head or on the shoulders. container of ceramics: jar, jug, pot, vase Egypt

Group portrait of two men. Unknown, photographer 1861-1903 Group portrait of two men dressed in traditional garments, one of whom stands while holding a piece of paper and wears a badge of a photography gallery. The other man is seated while holding a traditional hookah pipe. (Recto, mount) lower left, next to image, in pencil: "Leon Douffet underlined -> / street / Photographie / Gallery";

Untitled (Two Women Standing near Three Children) Unknown. , ca. 1900. Gelatin silver photograph, 2 1/4 x 3 7/8 in. (5.7 x 9.6 cm). Photography ca. 1900

Portrait of Two Chinese Buddhist Monks. The Austrian photographer Von Stillfried lived and worked in Japan and also took trips to China. He exhibited at the Worlds Fair in Vienna in 1873 and also once in Amsterdam. In the 1877 international photography exhibition, his exceptional photographs were on display at the Arti et Amicitiae artists society in Amsterdam. These types of portraits and landscapes reaped him great praise and a medal.

A Chief of the irregular Firemen in Constantinople, Turkey with his fine upturned moustache and remarkable sheepskin coat. Date: 1905

Culling Tea ca. 1869 Attributed to Lai Fong. Culling Tea 289310

Te-rar-a-weet, Stopped with the Horses, Kit-ka-hoct -- La-shara-chi-eks, Humane Chief, Kit-ka-hoct -- As-son-oo-cot-tuk, As a Dog, but yet a High Chief, Kit-ka-hoct -- La-shara-tu-ra-ha, Good Chief, Kit-ka-hoct -- La-sharoo-too-row-oo-towy, Difficult Chief, Kit-ka-hoct

Portrait of two unknown Chamana men from India with a shield and weapons, c. 1858 - in or before 1868 photograph Uttar pradesh photographic support albumen print human races; peoples; nationalities. protective weapons: shield. weapons

Man in Sami costume. Hand -colored studio portrait in full figure. Nordic

Paulline Ortmann, Josef Szétel -, Photographs

Portrait of two unknown farmers from the Ruth Dhundis stem from Multan; Ruth Dhoondees. AGRICULTURAL TRIBE. Soonnee Mahomedan. Googya. .

British Gentleman with Group of Eastern Potentates. Artist: Unknown (British). Date: 1860s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Group of Musicians and Nautch Girl. John Edward Saché (Prussian or British, born Prussia, 1824 - 1882)

Portrait of an Indian woman.

Two Chinese Men in Matching Traditional Dress 1870s Unknown. Two Chinese Men in Matching Traditional Dress 288543

Chinese Ladies. Attributed to Tung, Hing (Chinese, active Fuzhou 1860s - 1880s)

Portret van drie minstrelen in Sindh, c. 1862 - in or before 1872 photograph Left: Man plays a sitar, middle: man plays a whistle, right: man plays a drum Sindh photographic support albumen print human races; peoples; nationalities. minstrel, 'jongleur'

Agan, a man with headless body attached at the chest. Lithograph by E. Stalker, 1833.

Bombay, Indes Portrait in American plan of a woman at the entrance of a house or in an interior courtyard , 1913-1914 - India, Pakistan - Stéphane Passet - (December 16 -January 29) (French - Bombay , Indes Portrait en plan américain d' une femme à l' entrée d' une maison ou dans une cour intérieure). Woman, costume, portrait, home, accessory, jewelry, Human beings, clothing, housing , architecture

Untitled, One of 274 Vintage Photographs , late 19th-early 20th century. Photograph, Image: 8 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. (21 x 26 cm). Arts of the Islamic World late 19th-early 20th century

The Toba are an ethnic group in Argentina, Bolivia and Paraguay. The Gran Chaco is a sparsely populated, hot and semi-arid lowland natural region of the R&#xdbe0;de la Plata basin, sometimes called the Chaco Plain. Northern Argentina reaches into the Gran Chaco. This picture shows a Toba woman carrying a hide case, worn round the neck. The word 'Maleta' also translates as 'saddlebag' Date: 1904

'Girdi Kurds', c1906-1913, (1915). Kurdish men, possibly from Girdi Abdulaziz, (Erbil Governorate, Kurdistan Region of Iraq). From "The Caliphs' Last Heritage, a short history of the Turkish Empire" by Lt.-Col. Sir Mark Sykes. Macmillan & Co, London, 1915

Turkey: A kocek was typically a very handsome young male rakkas or 'dancer', usually cross-dressed in feminine attire, employed as an entertainer.

Beggar of St. Croix. Jeanne E. Bennett, photographer (American, 1861 - 1936) 1904 A elderly man, leaning on crutches, holding out his hat. A young girl in peasant clothes is putting something into his hat. (Verso, original backing) upper center, in pencil: "Beggar of St. Croix/ Jeanne E. Bennett/ 1904 space Baltimore, Md/ Platinum"

Portrait of Surinamese Vrouw, C. Kersten & Co., Anonymous, 1900 - 1910 Portrait of a standing Surinamese woman. Original resident of Suriname. Part of a collection of 68 postcards from Suriname, brought together in an album as a reminder of a stay in Suriname in September 1911. publisher: ParamariboSuriname cardboard collotype standing figure - AA - female human figure Suriname

Femmes Annamites, Cochinchine. Artist: Emile Gsell (French, Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines 1838-1879 Vietnam). Dimensions: 26.3 x 23 cm (10 3/8 x 9 1/16 in.). Date: 1866. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Portrait of two men: a prisoner and a guard, Iran, c. 1885 - c. 1910 photograph Frontal portrait of two men: a prisoner and a guard. The prisoner is chained with a long necklace and squurses in a staring and wrapped in a blanket on the ground. The guard in uniform is standing and has the chain in his hand, a gun around the shoulder. Iran paper albumen print Iran

'A Madegasse widow; A Birds-eye View of Madagascar', 1875. From, 'Illustrated Travels' by H.W. Bates. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London

Portrait of an unknown Sodhi from Lahore, c. 1862 - in or before 1872 photograph Lahore photographic support albumen print human races; peoples; nationalities

Man with a donkey. Unknown, photographer 1861-1903 A man stands in front of a large door with a donkey. Holding a cane, he places one hand on the donkey's saddle. The door bears an inscription in Arabic script.

Bust of a Bedouin American Colony, Jerusalem. 1898, Israel

Man in coat leaning on table. William Carrick (Scottish, 1827 - 1878)

Two women posing in folk costumes, with white jackets to Nordic

Mattias Årén, Frostviken Lapland. Hand -colored studio portrait in full figure. Nordic

Albumin photograph by Raimund Stillfried von Rathenitz, 1876, showing a Chinese dealer standing with goods, in a market or trading environment.

Portrait of Sultan Achmad Nazaruddin (1858 - 1881) Jambi, Sumatra Island. Indonesia. Drawing by Eugene Ronjat (1822 - 1912) Across the island of Sumatra 1877 by Daniel David Veth (1850 - 1885) Le Tour du Monde 1880

Emily Turek, called FAKER-MILLI - , Hermann Heart -, Photographs

Three men, 1860 - 1890 photograph Studio portrait of three men, probably a regent with his two sons, probably in Batavia. Sticked photo in the photo album entitled: Faces of Java. Batavia photographic support albumen print Java. Batavia

Ramallah woman in embroidered costume. 1940

Horse Keepers Playing Cards. Willoughby Wallace Hooper (English, 1837 - 1912)

Girl Adorned in Silver Jewelry Antoin Sevruguin. Girl Adorned in Silver Jewelry, late 19th century. Albumen silver photograph, 8 1/8 x 6 3/16 in. (20.6 x 15.7 cm). Arts of the Islamic World late 19th century

Children in traditional costume on the island of Marken; Ile de Marken. .

Buriatka. Buriat woman.. Bulychev, Ivan Dem'ianovich. Prints, Drawings. 1856. General Research Division. IAkutskaia oblast (R.S.F.S.R.), Okhotsk (Sea of, Region) , Description and travel, Natural history , Okhotsk, Sea of, Region, Siberia, Eastern (Russia) , Administrative and political divisions

Unidentified man

Notre-Dame de Paris "by Paul Foucher, according to the novel by Victor Hugo, at the Théâtre des Nations (today Théâtre de la Ville). Marie Laurent in the role of the sachet, sitting in the straw. Paris (IVME arr.), June 7, 1879. Tax on albumin paper. Photography by Etienne Carjat (1828-1906). Paris, Maison de Victor Hugo. 76324-27 French actor, theatral attitude, French comedian, scene costume, foot portrait, 19th XIX 19th 19th 19th century

Santorini, Greece: men carrying hogskins full of water to a cistern. Photograph. 18--.

Burma (Myanmar) - Traditional Costume (3/4) A Burmese man and his girl, with whom he converses over a low stone wall, whilst holding onto her hand. She is wearing a very strikingm orange wrap-around skirt. Date: circa 1910s

Photograph of Polish peasant children. Dated 19th Century

Grocery store in Cairo, 1888 - 1895 photograph Part of a group of photos collected by photographer Richard Polak on travel. This photo was exhibited together with other photos collected on his journeys at the Rotterdamsche Kunstkring (1895), Arti and Amicitiae in Amsterdam (1897-1898) And Societeit 't Collegie in Kampen (Date for the time being unknown). Cairo paper. cardboard albumen print shop, store Cairo

Hoang Oanh Nguyen collage students. Tonkin, French Indochina. Vietnam, Asia. Thirty months in Tonkin 1885 by Doctor Charles Edouard Hocquard (1853 - 1911) Le Tour du Monde 1890

Ma - Hla- Byu (Miss Pretty and Fair) - Burma, circa 1905

Elaine "And reverently they bore her into Hall". Date/Period: 1875. Print. Albumen silver. Height: 346 mm (13.62 in); Width: 284 mm (11.18 in). Author: Julia Margaret Cameron.

Fille de Shanghai 1870s Raimund von Stillfried Austrian. Fille de Shanghai 288495

Chinese men and a boy near a house in Tibet, D.T. Dalton, 1903.

Turk's portrait study in the turbo, en face; Szwalski, Kazimierz (1855-1940); 1891 (1891-00-00-1891-00-00);Egypt, Potoccy, Krzeszowice - collection, travel

Retrato de muchacha gitana.

Russian () Man Holding Basket and Stool. Artist: Unknown

Portrait of an Indonesian boy with ax, Woodbury & Page, 1857 - 1880 Photograph. visit card This photo is part of an album. Java photographic support. cardboard albumen print historical persons. tools, aids, implements ~ crafts and industries: axe

Two couples from the Val d'Ossau about to commence a local dance Date: circa 1910s

Barbers atWork. Artist: Hippolyte Arnoux, French, active Egypt ca. 1860-90

Fille de Shanghai. Artist: Raimund von Stillfried (Austrian, 1839-1911). Dimensions: 23.7 x 19.3 cm (9 5/16 x 7 5/8 in.). Date: 1870s. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA. Author: Raimund von Stillfried.

Original postcard from Antoni Amatller's trip to Morocco in 1903.

Niels Nielsen Bask.

Group of Mongols

Peking, Pechili province, China. Photograph, 1981, from a negative by John Thomson, 1869.

A hand-tinted card depicting two footmen from Sais, Egypt (on the Western Nile), wearing white tunics, patterned waistcoat and sashes and holding long sticks. Date: 1904

Portrait of an unknown Japanese woman at a table, Anonymous, 1885 photograph Japan paper. cardboard albumen print adult woman. anonymous historical person portrayed Japan

Zaaiende man.In a mountainous landscape, a man with a turban sows a field. Birds fly behind him. Two more men in the background. There is an agricultural tower on the ground.

Types de femmes du peuple. A young native woman stands outside a lattice window with a toddler on her shoulder. Another woman wearing a veil and an adornment on her nose peers out of the window.. (Recto, print) lower left, inscribed in the negative: "625 _ Types de femmes du peuple";

Two Japanese Women. Unknown

A man from central Asia, carrying a sword and a shield. Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

Ramallah woman. 1898, West Bank, Rām Allāh

Pareja de gigantes de Montblanch (Tarragona). Años 1920.

Man wearing traditional peasant clothing.. Postcards, Portrait photographs. 1921. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Koreans, Men , Clothing & dress , Korea

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