Historical Travel Photography

Vintage photographs capturing leisure and transportation scenes from various locations around the world, highlighting early 20th-century travel.

Elsevier photo collection. Beach Batavia. Z.G. Klein-Zandvoort. background visible weather mountains Bantam. Inland praires leave fishing. 1927. Batavia, Indonesia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Description: Desbarats. Prince of Wales' tour of Canada, 1919, a volume of photographs published by the Canadian Pacific Railway Date: 1919 canada, americas, princeofwalestour

Elsevier photo collection. Beach Batavia. Z.G. Klein-Zandvoort. background visible weather mountains Bantam. Inland praires leave fishing. 1927. Batavia, Indonesia, Indonesia, Jakarta, Dutch East Indies

Hudson River in New York, from Hoboken Ferry boat. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.)

An albumin paper photograph by Victor Angerer around 1890 showing leisure activities on the Danube in Vienna, including boats, people, and riverside recreation.

Coney Island, N.Y., view at West Brighton Beach. American scenery, Coney Island. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1865 - 1919. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), New York (N.Y.), Coney Island (New York, N.Y.)

Description: View of the Village of Shamshui. Distance from Hong Kong 119 miles. Location: Shamshui, China hongkong, asia, asiathroughalens

Description: Akenibo Tauk Date: 05 March 1909 africa

Holiday in Switzerland, Andries Augustus Boom, 1899 photograph Holiday in Switzerland, in a rowing boat on the Vierwoudstrekenmeer (Vierwaldstättersee) near Vitznau. Part of the photo album of the Boom-Gonggrijp family in Suriname and Curaçao. Switzerland photographic support Switzerland. Vierwoudstrekenmeer. Vitznau

Kanagawa. Port of Kanagawa, with Japanese Shipping..

View of a harbor in France with sailboats and jetty. Part of a French amateur photographer photo album with sights in France, Switzerland and Italy.

Totland and Totland Bay. Page 24 with 3 photos of the beach and a hotel from Totland, an overview of Totland Bay and a caption. Part of photographic travel report from the island of Wight.

Description: Kilindini Beach 1890 Location: Kilindini Date: 1890 ugandarailway, africa

Description: Kuching. Location: Kuching, Borneo asia, sarawak, malaysia, borneo, kuching, asiathroughalens

View of the port of Belawan on Sumatra. Part of travel album with photographs of activity and sights on Sumatra and Java and from the trip to and from the Dutch East Indies.

Yatcht Southern Cross. Views at Asbury Park and Ocean Grove, N.J. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1875. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Jersey, Asbury Park (N.J.), Ocean Grove (N.J.), Tourism , New Jersey, Beaches, Yachts, Bathing suits, Wading

Opium hulks in Shanghai Harbour.. Postcards. 1901 - 1907. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection. Shanghai (China), Opium trade , China, Warehouses, hulks, Sampans

Plymouth Tercentenary Pageant, the Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor , Anniversaries, Historical pageants, Mayflower Ship. Plymouth Tercentenary Photographs

Batavia, Panorama view and front of the old barracks in the Lower Town. Taken from the drawbridge., Panorama of the old barracks in the Lower Town of Batavia, seen from the drawbridge, Part of Travel album with photos of Batavia., photograph, photo, album sheet, photos, height 248 mm, width 305 mm, photographer, 1920 - 1920, paper, photographic paper, photo paper, daylight gelatin silver print

A Pleasure Party. Carleton Watkins (American, 1829 - 1916)

Anonymous. Album of the 1900 Universal Exhibition. The Seine at the Pont de la Concorde. 1900. Museum of Fine Arts of the City of Paris, Petit Palais. Year 1900, Belle Epoque, universal exhibition 1900

Photo collection First World War. Egyptian Official Photograph. Jaffa from the sea. 1914-1918}. Jaffa, Palestine

Beach and bathers at the foot of Mount Palmer (Mount Parsee, Parsee Hill) near Singapore, G.R. Lambert & Co. (attributed to), c. 1870 - c. 1910 photograph Part of Reisalbum with photos of sights in Marseille, Port Said, Aden, Bombay, Colombo, Singapore and the Dutch East Indies. Singapore cardboard. paper. photographic support albumen print beach. sunbathing (on the beach) Singapore

Among the wrecks, Shelburne Harbor, Vt. Green Mountain scenery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Vermont

Photograph of a painting of a coastal town. Unknown maker

Photo production of (presumably) a print with a beach face, anonymous, c. 1860 - c. 1870 photograph Part of English family album with photos of people, travel, cricket and artworks. paper. photographic support albumen print ships, boats on land, beached. fisherman. beach

Photo production of a painting by Andreas Achenbach: An Einner Amsterdam Gracht. Part of album with pictures of sights and landscapes in England and of art.

View on Chautauqua Lake. Chautauqua Lake, N.Y. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New York (State), Chautauqua (N.Y.), Chautauqua Lake (N.Y.)

The port of Manila, Philippines, South Asia. Drawing by Charles Barbant (1844 - 1921) Luzon and Palawan, six years of travel in the Philippines by Alfred Marche (1844-1898) Le Tour du Monde 1886

The Race at Monmouth Park, Long Branch, N.J. Stereoscopic Treasures still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1885. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Jersey, Long Branch (N.J.), Tourism , New Jersey , Long Branch (N.J.), Carriages & coaches, Spectators, Grandstands, Racetracks (Horse racing)

View at Lake Minnetonka. Stereographs of Minnesota scenery. 1850 - 1930. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Minnesota, Minnetonka, Lake (Minn.), Tourism , Minnesota

Yesterday and today in Venice. Yesterday and today in Venice

View of Gondels in the Lagune of Venice, in the distance on the right the Santa Maria della Presentazione and on the left the church of San Giorgio Maggiore, Johanna Margaretha Piek (attributed to), 1889 - 1893 photograph This photo is part of an album. Venice baryta paper gondola Santa Maria of the presentation. Church of San Giorgio Maggiore

Parisians. Photo from a series of 6 amateur photos.

Volendam, Holland, 1910-1916, Volendam, by George Crombie.

Auckland, New Zealand photographic postcards

Corfou - Palaeokastrizza. Le monastère , Monasteries, Bays Bodies of water, Hills, Boats. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Return, Anonymous, 1950 photograph Album magazine with six photos of construction works, harbor buildings and the monument of Ferdinand de Lesseps at the Suez Canal. Taken from a ship during the return trip to the Netherlands. Part of the photo album 'My years in India' with photos about the military actions in the Dutch East Indies. Suez Canal cardboard. photographic support gelatin silver print coast. harbour. canal. monument, statue Dutch East Indies, the. Suezkanal

Misc - Calabazos. Calabazos, Philippines.

Romantic Viga Canal, City of Mexico stereoscopic photographs, albumen prints, black-and-white prints

Description: Jamaica. Port Antonio - Showing Titchfield House Location: Port Antonio, Jamaica Date: 1900-1910 jamaica, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

Water front Singapore. Water front Singapore

Bay at Tucker Bay Road on Trinidad with a view of Five Islands, Anonymous, c. 1900 - c. 1940 photograph Part of album with photos of railways in the Dutch East Indies and postcards. Trinidad paper. cardboard gulf, bay (+ landscape with figures, staffage) Trinidad

Description: Samfya Harbour which is at present being enlarged. Location: Samfya africa

View of the banks of the Ganga in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, India, anonymous, 1865 - 1890 photograph A Ghat is a sanctuary consisting of a hill with stairs that descend to a holy river. Varanasi paper. cardboard albumen print river. city-view in general; 'veduta'. rowing-boat, canoe, etc. Ghats van Varanasi. Ganges

Georgia - St. Simons. St. Simons Front Beacon, Georgia. Wrecked by cyclone of Sept. 29, 1896. Looking toward North point of Jekyl Island, Georgia.

Miami River and the Hotel Royal Palm, Miami, Fla, Rivers, Hotels, Resorts, United States, Florida, Miami River, United States, Florida, Miami, 1900

Description: Entrance to Kong Moon with Customs Hulk Distance From Hong Kong. 76 Miles. Location: Kong Moon, China hongkong, asia, asiathroughalens

Sunset Lake, Asbury Park. Scenes at Ocean Grove and Asbury Park, N.J. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1875. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. New Jersey, Asbury Park (N.J.), Ocean Grove (N.J.), Tourism , New Jersey, Boats, Lakes & ponds, Leisure

View of the speech of Naples and Vesuvius in the background, Ernest Eléonor Pierre Lamy, 1861 - 1878 stereograph Naples cardboard. paper albumen print ships (in general) - CC - more than one ship. sea (seascape) Naples

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Zeekampong Ambai (Japen) travel rough foreground. 1950. Japen, Guinea

Alcatraz and the Aquila, San Francisco. Pacific coast. still image. Stereographs, Photographs. 1867. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. California, Sailing ships, Windmills, Alcatraz Island (Calif.), San Francisco Bay (Calif.)

Panorama of the town, North Island, Chincha Islands. Showing Slaughter-House Point, with part of Small Pier. No. 1. Photographs. 1865. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Lima (Peru), Chincha Islands (Peru)

Boats on the Seine Boats on the Seine, Paris ". Anonymous photography. Gelatino-Chloride Draw.

Florida - Indian River. Indian River, Florida.

Cowes and East Cowes. Page 32 With 4 photos of a ship slope, a boulevard, the Marine Parade, the Medina river, harbor views in Cowes and East Cowes and a caption. Part of photographic travel report from the island of Wight.

Beach and Atlantic House hotel, Nantasket , Hotels, Beaches. Leon Abdalian Collection

Elsevier photo collection. Hoorn Terschelling. 1932. Friesland, Terschelling

Description: Fishing village near Belize Location: Belize Date: 1923-1934 Description: Motor Boat leaving Belize for Cayo Location: Belize Date: 1923-1934 Description: Squaring Mahogany, Belize Location: Belize Date: 1923-1934 belize, caribbean, britishhonduras, caribbeanthroughalens

View of a city by the sea, with rowing boats in the foreground, possibly Anonymous, 1896.

Riviergezicht bij Siantar op Sumatra.Part of travel album with photographs of activity and sights on Sumatra and Java and from the trip to and from the Dutch East Indies.

Description: Arnoux. Suez a marée basse 232, Egypt Location: Egypt Date: 1890 - 1899 africa

View of the quay of the Via Caracciolo in Naples and fishing boat in the bay, Italy, Giorgio Sommer (attributed to), 1857 - 1900 photograph Naples cardboard. paper albumen print fisherman. harbour. ships (in general). street Via Caracciolo. Naples

View of harbor kades, presumably in Marseille. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of a family, Distillery Delizy & Doakau Fils, the army and sights in France.

Description: Tour 1915. Guma Island. Tailasu. Location: Tailasu, Guma Island, Fiji Date: 1915 Description: Tour 1915. The "Lady Escott" off Guma Island. Location: Guma Island, Fiji Date: 1915 fiji, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens

Travel to Isle of Wight, Gibraltar, Marseille, Sintra and Tangier (1). Album leaf with nine photos taken during a trip with the ship the 'Goentoer' to various places: recordings of 'The Needles' at the Isle of Wight, from the Rock of Gibraltar, from a visit from a European travel group to Sintra (Portugal), From a trip in rowing boats, from a donkey trip and a cityscape of Tangier. Part of photo album from the Palthe family from Almelo.

View of a Port Said quay with rowing boats in the foreground, Hippolyte Arnoux, c. 1870 - c. 1891 photograph Part of photo album from a trip to Manila. Port Said paper. photographic support albumen print quay (+ city(-scape) with figures, staffage). rowing-boat, canoe, etc. Port Said

Water Sports - Texas. Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Panorama of Middle Island, Chincha Islands, with part of fleet waiting for guano. No. 2. Photographs. 1865. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Lima (Peru), Chincha Islands (Peru)

Bath coaches on the beach of Shanklin, 1889 photograph This photo is part of an album. Shanklin baryta paper. cardboard beach (as place of recreation). four-wheeled, animal-drawn vehicle, e.g.: cab, carriage, coach Shanklin

Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Sunset jarsso. September 1953. Jarsoen, Guinea

Enoshima, Tamamura, Kōzaburō, Enoshima island, View of the beach with boats on Enoshima, photomechanical print, page, photos, photographically illustrated books, height 105 mm, width 151 mm, 1856 - 1923, maker, manufacturer, 1895 - 1905, paper, collotype, photoprint

Description: Catalan Bay, Native Boat. Location: Gibraltar Date: 1879 mediterranean, mediterraneanthroughalens

Description: Jamaica. Kingston. Myrtle Bank Hotel. The land in the background is the peninsular on which Palisadoes Aerodrome stands and the short distance across by water will be observed. Location: Kingston, Jamaica Date: 1944 jamaica, caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

From the magazine La Vie au Grand Air (Life in the Outdoors); Black and white cover photograph two motored canoes meeting in the Lucerne, dated 22 September 1904.

Fishermen on the Sea of Galilee and distant hills of the Gaderenes, Palestine (St. Luke v I-7) , Fishing boats, Fishermen, Fishing nets, Lakes & ponds Edgar Sutton Dorr Photograph Collection

The Old Order and The New. Peter Henry Emerson (British, born Cuba, 1856 - 1936)

Marrons on the Marowijne near Albina, 1891 photograph A group of Maroons with their boats on the banks of the Marowijne (Maroni) at Albina. In the distance the island with homes for leper deportees. Part of the photo album Souvenir de Voyage (part 4), about the life of the Dooyer family in and around the Ma Retraite plantation in Suriname in the years 1906-1913. Suriname photographic support gelatin silver print Suriname. Albina. Marowijne

Port de Constantinople, orientalist photography, Berggren, Guillaume, ca. 1870

Fishermen at a bridge over the Chuzenji lake in Nikko; The Lake of Chiuzenji at Nikko .. Part of travel album with pictures of sights in Japan.

Description: Sloops at anchor, Grand Turk. Location: Grand Turk, Turks and Caicos Islands Date: 1958-1960 caribbeanthroughalens

africa

12/31/1949. Women in the market at the port of Ayamonte.

View of a mooring place at Kantara to the Suez Canal with a ship, men and camels on vessels; Persia Crinsant Le Pont des Carovannes de Kantara. Part of photo album from a trip to Manila.

Geldersekade seen towards the Nieuwmarkt; Gelderchekade. Part of photo album with recordings from the center of Amsterdam and advertising texts for shops and companies.

Jackson Park from the Boat House, Chicago, circa 1908

Hotel Plateau, Yellowstone National Park.. Benjamin West Kilburn (American, 1827 - 1909)

The River Here Is Crowded With Sampans Which, Later, Were Loaded With Evacuees From The City Of Kweilin, China And Started Down The River.

Straatgezicht Van Paseo de los Mártirres de la Libertad Alicante, Anonymous, c. 1885 - In or Before 1892 photograph This photo is part of an album. photographic support albumen print street. trees: palm-tree Alicante

CAPRI ISLAND - Entrance of the Blue Grotto. .

View of the bay of Naples and Castel dell'ovo, 1857 - 1914 photograph View of Naples, castle and bay of Naples. On the coast and on the water a few fishing boats and people. Naples paper. cardboard albumen print castle. quay. gulf, bay Naples. Castel dell'Ovo

Havana (Cuba), 05/14/1898. Cuban War. Appearance of the docks full of people from the neighborhood, who came to witness the departure of the Spanish ships.

Shooting the Rapids, Sault Ste. Marie, Mich. still image. Postcards. 1898 - 1931. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection

Italy - Sicily - Messina before the 1909 earthquake - the port ..

Woman at the Lac du Bouchet in the Auvergne. Part of photo album from a French amateur photographer with recordings of trips in France, Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, the first automobiles and autoraces.

On the way to Jericho (Er-Riha), Jordan, etc. Russian pilgrims at the Jordan. 1898

Description: Kuching. Typical of the lower reaches of the Sarawak rivers. Location: Sarawak, Borneo asia, sarawak, malaysia, borneo, kuching, asiathroughalens

Face on the island enoshima; Enoshima. Part of photo album with 50 pictures of sights in Japan.

Philippine Island - Masbate, Aerial Photograph.

Description: Photograph album donated by Philip Barlow depicting various scenes from life in the Leeward Islands. Location: Leeward Islands, West Indies Date: 1948-1950 caribbean, caribbeanthroughalens

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