Historical Cultural Portraits

Vintage photographs depicting regional cultural practices, showcasing individuals in traditional attire engaged in daily activities from various historical contexts.

Five Ethiopian Musicians - a popular beat combo of the region (possibly called 'Oasis'!) Date: circa 1920

South Africa: Magwamba women grinding corn outside mud huts; one woman works with a baby in a fabric sling on her back. Photograph by H.F. Gros, ca. 1880.

Portrait of two unknown Indonesian fighters or hunters, 1891 - 1912 photograph Two men wear a wooden shield and spears. They wear a knife around the drug paper albumen print group-portrait of hunters

Group of Uzbekistans, c. 1895 - c. 1915 photomechanical print Group of people on the street, at the top is a title in the Uzbeeks. Samarkand paper. cardboard collotype Samarkand

Native Americans from the Pawnee tribe, Native American Civilization, United States, 19th century.

Arab Girls Carrying Water 1880s Unknown. Arab Girls Carrying Water 263130

Five Ethiopian Musicians - a popular beat combo of the region (possibly called 'Oasis'!) Date: circa 1920

The hairstyle of a maron girl.; Coiffure of a Boschnegernetje .. Sitting Maroon girl with an older Maroon woman. Part of the photo album souvenir de Voyage (part 1), about the life of the DOIER family in and around the plantation ma retreat in Suriname in the years 1906-1913.

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

Sarawak: a native Kayan woman carrying her child in a sling. Photograph.

Hill Coolies. John Edward Saché (Prussian or British, born Prussia, 1824 - 1882)

Description: African tribal images. Photographs depicting various subjects, including musicians, food preparation, plants, female porters, craftsmen and a horse race. Date: 1880-1910 africa

Indigenous natives of Ouzaramo, Bantú, East Africa. Drawing by Edouard Riou (1833 - 1900) The lakes of equatorial Africa, exploration voyage 1883-1885 by Victor Giraud (1858-1898) Le Tour du Monde 1886

A group of Bambaras from Upper Senegal, 1890, published by C. Marpon et E. Flammarion in Paris. The image features boys and men in traditional clothing

Nepal: three Newar men selling produce, seated. Photograph by Clarence Comyn Taylor, ca. 1860.

Enslaved African American families in Hanover County, Virginia, during the Civil War, 1862. Men, women and children were on the plantation of Dr. William F. Gaines, Hanover County, Virginia. Photograph by George Harper Houghton (BSLOC_2018_5_6)

Studio Portrait: Seated Group portrait with Man in European Dress and Three Indigenous people 1860s-70s Unknown The carte de visite, a format comprised of an approximately 2 x 4 inch photograph mounted to card stock, was perhaps the most ubiquitous of nineteenth-century photographs. The French studio portrait photographer André-Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri?first patented the carte in 1854. His innovation of exposing not just one but eight photographic images on the same glass plate negative enabled cartes to be made cheaply and reproduced on a mass scale. During the late 1850s and throughout the latter half of the century, these economical keepsakes depicting portraits of loved ones, celebrities, monarchs, and foreign types circulated en masse and spurred a veritable "cartomania." Collected in albums, traded among friends, and admired in drawing rooms, cartes put photography in the hands of virtually everyone, and thus offered a means of reflecting upon one’s own social standing in an ever

Blackfoot Squaw and Baby in Papoose - Canada, North West Territory Date: circa 1910s

Sarawak: a Sea Dayak woman, two Kayan youths and three Kenyah women. Photograph.

Indios de la Patagonia, 1866, Indians of South America, Albumen silver print, 5 7/16 x 7 3/8 in. (13.8 x 18.8 cm), Mat / 13 1/2 x 9 3/4 in. (34.3 x 24.8 cm), Titled in pencil on mount recto

Women and children in Moengo, 1929 - 1930 photograph Suriname photographic support village Moengo. Albina

Elsevier photo collection. Musicians Makassar music instruments. 1930. Celebes, Indonesia, Indonesia, Makassar, Dutch East Indies, Sulawesi

A GROUP OF ANGONI FRIENDLIES, 1897

Portrait of three Indonesian men, Woodbury & Page, 1857 - 1880 Photograph. visit card This photo is part of an album. Java photographic support. cardboard albumen print anonymous historical persons portrayed in a group, in a group-portrait. sitting on the ground

Two Cheyenne Squaws, Sauke and Hatpy Daughters of Little Robe. William Stinson Soule (American, 1836 - 1908)

KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Men of the Hlubi tribe eating. Photogravure. 19th century. Colorised.

Javanese carrier with plants. Studio portrait of a Javanese carrier with plants, a plant seller. Sticked photo in the photo album entitled: Faces of Java.

Bedouins, Albumen Print, 1901

The Seed Gatherers. Kai-Vav-Its. A tribe of...Pai Utes, living on...Kai-bab Plateau,...Grand Canon...Colorado.... John K. Hillers (American, 1843 - 1925)

Portrait of Black Owl with family, Famous Indian leader

Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. Young Marind girls who have passed to the Catholic faith. October 1954. New Guinea

Tanganyika. Dar-es-Salem. Native women with cicatrice patterns on their faces and buttons inserted in upper lips. 1936, Tanzania, Dar es Salaam

African family on the march, from a sketch by Verney Lovett Cameron duirng his African Expedition, 1872-75.

Tonkin, Indochina A couple of parents in the interior courtyard of a house during a wedding ceremony , Léon Busy in Indochina (French - Tonkin , Indochine Un couple de parents dans la cour intérieure d' une habitation lors d' une cérémonie de mariage). Woman, costume, wedding, tea, event, portrait, home, accessory, furniture, ceramics, hairstyle , headgear, court, man, Human beings, clothing, society, housing , architecture, Tonkin, Tonkinese couple, surrounding Hanoi

Chinese hairdresser shaves a customer on the street, c. 1879 - c. 1890 photograph This photo is part of an album. China paper albumen print shaven head. barber, barbershop. shaving, being shaved China

AGRA, Indies women near a water point , 1913-1914 - India, Pakistan - Stéphane Passet - (December 16 -January 29) (French - Agra , Indes Femmes près dun point deau). Woman, exists in high definition, group portrait, domestic object, domestic life, fountain, Human beings, HD, daily life, Indies, AGRA, group of women

Portrait of six Newar men from Nepal, c. 1858 - in or before 1868 photograph Nepal photographic support albumen print human races; peoples; nationalities

Chief Kanareki and family, circa 1900, Sapporo, by Fine Artsic Photographer. Gift of Mr K C Bibby, 1956.

Hairstyle of a Marron girl, 1903 - 1910 photograph Sitting Marron girl with an older Maroon woman. Part of the photo album Souvenir de Voyage (part 1), about the life of the Doijer family in and around the MA retreat plantation in Suriname in the years 1903-1910. Suriname photographic support cyanotype Suriname

Tanganyika. Arusha. Masai warriors with their gleaming spears at the wedding. Close up, half figures. 1936, Tanzania, Arusha

Malays

Description: Native Blacksmiths, Kintamps. Description: Girl gathering corn. africa

Bedouin women in front of tent in Moab-Adwan tribe. 1898, Jordan

Men and Women of the Sioux Indian Tribe, USA, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a 19th century original, exact date unknown, North America

This photo, which dates to 1896, shows a couple outside their home in the mountains of Tennessee.

Africa - Nyasaland (Malawi) - Women of Mount Zamba Date: circa 1905

Korean women. Korea.. Carleton H. Graves (American, 1867 - 1943)

Studio Portrait of four unknown boys dressed as warriors, Anonymous, 1870 - 1890 photograph Java paper albumen print boy (child between toddler and youth). trade games, imitative games, imitating adults. anonymous historical person portrayed Java

Women and man from the African tribe of the Niam-Niams in 1880, allegedly truants, in the interior of Africa, whose existence, however often the rumou...

Four Arapahoes, possibly Arapaho Chief Walk-u-betta and Members of His Band. William Stinson Soule (American, 1836 - 1908)

Group of Native American Men, Telegraph Poles in Background 1880s-90s Unknown. Group of Native American Men, Telegraph Poles in Background 269555

Doctors Martin, Leboeuf and Roubaud examining patients suffering from sleep sickness in a Bateke village, Congo, photograph from L'Illustration, No 3350, May 11, 1907.

Ambala, India - Women carrying chatties of water Date: circa 1910s

Young woman with a loom; loom. .

Washoe Indians - The Chief's Family. no. 604. 1870 - 317. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Indians of North America , California, Families, Tribal chiefs, Washo Indians

Young Kouy woman rocking chair with child in Cambodia, circa 1880

Arab Sportsman and Cook. Francis Frith (English, 1822 - 1898)

Egypt - a photograph of a group of young Bishari Children. The Bishari (who occupy the land from Baranis in the south to the Port Sudan area) are descended from Neolithic tribal groups of ancient Hamitic origin. Date: circa 1910s

Tonga-Tabou. Costumes des habitants. Costume de guerre. 1830 - 1835. Publisher, J. Tastu., Paris., 34.5 x 53 cm. Lithographs

Rope Making, Fiji, circa 1910, Fiji, by A.M. Brodziak & Company.

Nouba Girl. Pierre Trémaux (French, 1818 - 1895)

Rasuna chief and his wife, Central Africa. Old 19th century engraved illustration from Journey from Zanzibar to Benguela by Verney Lovett Cameron, Le Tour du Monde 1877

Some men with a wooden tool, locally called debi-box, perform the washing of gold-bearing sands on the Lupa River.

Inhabitants of Vanikoro Island in local costume, with bow and arrow, Clothing of the inhabitants of Vanikoro Costumes des habitans de Vanikoro Voyage de d, print maker: Victor Adam, print maker: Antoine Maurin, after: Louis-Auguste de Sainson, (mentioned on object), Paris, 1830 - 1835, paper, h 251 mm - w 223 mm

Mexican market woman. 1898. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Women , Mexico, Street vendors

Portrait of two unknown Kota men from the hills of Nilgiris, c. 1865 - in or before 1875 photograph Nilgiris photographic support albumen print human races; peoples; nationalities. hunting horn

3 toddy gatherers() and 1 woman drinking and resting in front of small building. 1780 - 1858. Drawings. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection. Occupations , India

A seated barber shaving a man in a village in Bengal. Coloured lithograph by Bouvier after a drawing by W. Tayler.

A girl of the Susu tribe (Soussou) in Guinea, West Africa. The Susu are a major Mande ethnic group and are descendants of the thirteenth century Mali Empire. Date: 1910

At Colombo (Sri Lanka). Four native men posing on a street

Two Men, Basket Maker, c. 1870, Naples, Italy, Historical, digitally restored reproduction of a photograph by Giorgio Sommer, coloured, Europe

Two pretty young Tunisian street beggar children. Date: circa 1910s

Ashanti people in ambush in the jungle during the British expedition to secure the West Coast of Africa from the King of the Ashanti people. Date: 3 January 1874

Africa. 1936, Africa

Engraving showing two cannibals cooking their next meal, in their village near Nassibu's Camp on the Aruwimi River, Central Africa, 1888. This image was sketched by H. Ward, a member of the Emin Pasha Relief Expedition of 1887-1888 led by H.M. Stanley. Date: 1888

Portrait of khair mahomed, head of a baloch tribe, and servant; Khair mahomed. Chief of the Bordes. Beloch Frontier Tribe. Soonnee Mussulmans. SIND. Left: The clerk, right: Khair mahomed.

Eskimo family dressed in traditional clothing, Newfoundland and Labrador, northern Canada. From La Ilustracion Española y Americana 1895

'Young Bedaween girl; A journey through Soudan and Western Abyssinia, with Reminiscences of Captivity', 1875. From, 'Illustrated Travels' by H.W. Bates. Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, c1880, London

Yapoo Tekeenica man from Tierra del Fuego at Portrait Cove, from Narrative of Surveying Voyages of HM Ships Adventure and Beagle 1839, by Robert Fitzroy

Indian water carriers: Man in foreground carries two ceramic pots balanced on either end of pole balanced on his shoulder, while the one in background has a water skin and a jug to measure out water he sells. Hand-coloured engraving published Rudolph Ackerman

Photo reproduction of 19th century drawing, photograph, photo, carte-de-visite, photos, height 61 mm, width 100 mm, photographer, 1855 - 1880, third quarter 19th century, fourth quarter 19th century

Kingston, Jamaica. Two sleeved ceiling colored boys with cap and hat, standing on stones on a covered hillside and shy at camera smiling

Coolies - (Group). Felice Beato (English, born Italy, 1832 - 1909)

1930s NATIVE AMERICAN INDIAN WOMAN BAKING BREAD IN OUTDOOR HORNO OVEN SANTA CLARA PUEBLO NEW MEXICO USA

Australian aborigines preparing an eel on a bonfire. Queensland, Australia. Old 19th century engraved illustration, Journey to Northeast Australia by Carl Lumholtz 1880-1884 from Le Tour du Monde 1889

Rangoon prisoners. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection , Carpenter, Frank G,(Frank George),,1855-1924,Journeys,Europe, Prisoners,Burma,Rangoon,1910-1920, Burmese,Capture & imprisonment,Burma,Rangoon,1910-1920.

Young street hawkers and porters - Algeria. Date: circa 1910s

Men and women with a helmeted police officer on a quay in a harbor, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Family Album with photos of Wijnhandel Kraaij & Co. Bordeaux-Amsterdam. photographic support harbour. policeman, constable

Two men making bangles (ornamental bracelets). Gouache painting by an Indian artist.

'PORTIA AND NERISSA ON THE MORNING OF THE TRIAL', FROM THE PICTURE BY H. WALLIS

Seminole Indian Children. ca. 1928, Florida, USA, SEMINOLE INDIAN CHILDREN, FLORIDA

Portrait of a girl with jar from Cairo; Girl or Cairo. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in Greece and Egypt.

Monsoon Failure creates Famine In India - 70-year-old Peasants Beg For Food in the streets of the drought belt. At right a child holds a water bowl. for tem the monsoon failed in 1950 and in 1951 also. The failure of the 1952 monsoon has left South and East India in the deadly grip of Famine. Some 10,000,000 people live in the drought belts, the largest of which is in Rayalaseema, an area some 15,000 square miles in extent, in Madras state, bordering on the state of Hyderabad. Communist propagandists there have put the miserable plight of some five million peasants to through use. May 28, 1952. (Photo by Associated Press Photo).

Mohamed Ben Ali and his wife, El Kantara, Tunisia. Artist: Unknown

Women terrified by the fall of a meteorological stone. Queensland, Australia. Old 19th century engraved illustration, Journey to Northeast Australia by Carl Lumholtz 1880-1884 from Le Tour du Monde 1889

Engraving depicting Sandwich Islanders in council with their King. The South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands is a British overseas territory in the southern Atlantic Ocean. Dated 19th Century

Some of the cotton pickers on a big plantation in South Carolina.. Underwood & Underwood (American, founded 1881, dissolved 1940s)

Yemen (Aden) - Group of local Arab Chiefs, standing and seated, close to a huge nargile pipe Date: circa 1910s

The little Indian queen , Meadows, Children, Indians of North America

Daily life on a street, Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Caribbean, Central America. Haiti by Edgar la Selve 1871. Le Tour du Monde 1879

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