Historical Travel Scenes

A glimpse into past travels showcasing tourists at landmarks, cultural events, and everyday life in historical contexts.

An Egyptian Barber shaves another customer. The had being shorn holds a small mirror to check on progress.... Date: circa 1920s
An Egyptian Barber shaves another customer. The had being shorn holds a small mirror to check on progress.... Date: circa 1920s
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Africa, Eritrea, two young Habab care meticulously combing, 1910-20.
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Women Workers Of Portugal -- The "rodilha" - the circlet of cloth that acts as a buffer between head and load-adapts itself well to all shapes of cargo. Here a Lisbon water-carrier is steadied by the arm of a friend, as she pauses beside the famous Roman Aqueduct. September 30, 1949. (Photo by Steven Henty, Pictorial Press).
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Children sit by a bonfire in a favela in Sao Paulo
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Indonesians in an anti-Sukarno rally in Batu Sankar, Sumatra. They protested President Sukarno's consolidation of dictatorial powers. 1958.
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African-American Flood Refugees Wearing Identification Tags after Registration in the Flood Refugee Camp, Forrest City, Arkansas, USA, Edwin Locke for U.S. Resettlement Administration, February 1937
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various types of Arabs, Tunisia, around 1895, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from an original from the 19th century.
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Children in the solar camps (summer centres), 1940, Genoa, Italy, 20th century.
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Description: Return of Chief Mkwawa's skull to Tangangika and other photographs from the mid 1950s. africa
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Description: Fijian pupils of Adi Cakobau Girls' School. Location: Suva, Fiji fiji, australasia, oceania, australasiathroughalens
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Poll photo collection. Travel to Suriname and the Netherlands Antilles. A forest landcraft woman in Ganzee with a bowl of farmland decor (Regout, Maastricht). 1947. Suriname
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DOHA - February 20: A policeman directing traffic in Qatar's Souq Waqif retro-styled shopping area. The 1960s uniforms and sunshades have been revived by the Qatari authorities to add to the ambience. Next year Doha is to be that Arab Capital of Culture, 2010. The image was shot on black and white medium format film.
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1920S 1930S Egyptian Man Sitting On A Riding Tourist Camel With Fringed Camel Saddle Giza Cairo Egypt
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Three People in Mud during Woodstock Music Festival, Saugerties, New York, USA, July 13, 1994
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Visit Kaiser Karls I. in Czernovitz.
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Gaily Dressed children welcome Princess Margaret on her tour of the Caribbean Calypso Islands. The little girl wore a lace dress, beads, hoop earrings - and tiny bells in her hair. Her escort wore an embroidered shirt and a painted-on moustache. February 22, 1955. (Photo by Daily Mirror).
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black and white photo, Fighting within the Jallikkattu audience in Alanganallur near Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India, Asia
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Trip to South America: La Morita, Venezuela agrarian reform site, 12:15PM. Land grant ceremony at La Morita Resettlement Project in La Morita, Venezuela. A large banner illustrated with likenesses of President John F. Kennedy and President of Venezuela Rómulo Betancourt hangs above the speakers' stand.
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Elsevier photo collection. wife president Niger, Mrs. Diori, (center) visited costume museum Hague.rechts wife Minister Foreign Affairs Niger. explanation mrs. Rod costumes museum. October 7, 1968. Hague, South Holland
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Photo collection Service for army contacts Indonesia. Portrait of an Indonesian older man in uniform and with a peci. 1947. Indonesia, Dutch East Indies
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Picture of Nelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu when prisoners at Robben Island under apartheid regime. UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1999
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Collecting Chillies From Rooftop. Photo: Jill Mead/Axiom/Nov 2003
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Information office and radio broadcaster Dutch New Guinea. Making an image that is placed on the roof of a clan head. Humboldt bay (Kaju Pulau). March 1959. New Guinea
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Impressions from the USSR 1972, UZB, Uzbekistan, Asia
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Poll photo collection. Ships. Javanese servant on the MS Huygens. 1933
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Anefo photo collection. Passion game Tegelen, Supper. 14, 1955. Limburg, Tegelen
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Mumbai Police, Bombay Mumbai, Maharashtra, India no mr copyright: xmukeshxparpiani/dinodiaxphotox