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Queen Victoria pictured visiting the South Australian Court at the Colonial and Indian Exhibition in London in 1886. Date: 1886
Midshipman Newcome bowing as he leaves dinner in the captains cabin, HMS Victory. Captain Spring, Admiral Hearty and other offiicers drink wine after dinner
Captain Newcome is shaved roughly on the Equator inCaptain Newcome is shaved roughly before being dunked in a tub of bilge water on the Equator. A sailor dressed as Neptune holds a trident and sits on a throne on a gun carriage
Johnny in the West Indies pursued by a black squadronEnglish Navy officer fleeing from an angry Massa planter and Quashee enslaved men barndishing cudgels in Jamaica. Captain Newcome waves his bicorn at a rowboat in the bay
Fight between officers in the Ward Room, HMS VictoryLt. Newcome attacking Captain Clackit with a chair while other officers in nightgowns emerge from their cabins, HMS Victory. Clackit had stabbed Newcome with his sword
Midshipman Newcome and Spunyarn drinking Malaga wineMidshipman Newcome and Masters Mate Spunyarn drinking black strap or Malaga wine at the Navy Tavern, at the summit of Scud Hill, Gibraltar. Widow Cummings brings more wine, a monkey sits on a cannon
Midshipman Newcome meets crew from HMS Victory at Sally Port, Gibraltar. Masters Mate Spunyarn falls in the sea at the dock, a soldier guards the Sally Port
Royal Naval officers riding pigs in saddles through the market in Gibraltar. They knock over market stalls and sellers. Moors, Spanish and Jewish, scattering goods and wares. Market day - Gibraltar
Johnny Newcome drinking grog in the cockpit with other middys (midshipmen), HMS Victory. Sextants, pistols and muskets hang from hooks on the walls, a tub of grog on the floor. The Cockpit
Regency gentleman falling over a gate while two women watch. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by John Augustus Atkinson from Illustrations of the Miseries of Human Life, William Miller, London, 1807
King Charles II at a dance party during the Restoration, circa 1660. A wild ball with dancing, music, card games, tobacco smoking, drinking, courtesans, and fops. Evening Party. Time of Charles II
Rubber Rule in Africa - Methods of Barbarism. The atrocities carried out against the native population in Belgina Congo, Africa. An elderly Chief is shot for not meeting his rubber collection target
Grand Durbar at Cawnpore, November 1859Grand Durbar at Cawnpore after the Indian Mutiny, November 1859. 1859
Englishman sitting smoking a hookah, IndiaEnglishman sitting smoking a hookah, approached by a Muslim greeting him with Salaam. 1835
Two women receiving bad news from India, December 1841. 1841
Scrap, 12th Lancers, Cavalry RegimentVictorian scrap, 12th Lancers, Cavalry Regiment stationed in India. 1858
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Sri LankaFrys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Ceylon Sri Lanka. 1893
Franco-British Exhibition, Main Street, BallymaclintonFranco-British Exhibition of 1908, Main Street in the Irish village of Ballymaclinton, promoting McClintons Soap. 1908
Railway tramcar or riding trolley, MozambiqueRailway tramcar or riding trolley on a banana plantation in Mozambique. 19th century
African labourers lined up to receive their wagesAfrican labourers on a farm or plantation lined up to receive their wages. Date: 1950s
Trading with natives in New Zealand. Date: 1840s
Map of Hispaniola (San Domingo, Haiti), West Indies. The island is now divided into two separate nations: Haiti to the west (French Creole-speaking)
Title page, Histoire de l Isle Espagnole ou de S. Domingue [History of the Spanish Island or of San Domingo], based on the memoirs of Jean-Baptiste le Pers, Jesuit priest and missionary
Queen Purea of Tahiti surrendering to TobiasFictional depiction of Queen Purea (Oberea) offering a plantain leaf in surrender to sailors of the Dolphin, 1767. (Captain Samuel Wallis was too ill with scurvy to leave the ship so Tobias Furneaux)
British Dominions Book of Beginnings, Story without end
Street scene, Bathurst (now Banjul), Gambia, West AfricaStreet scene in Bathurst (now Banjul), Gambia, West Africa. Date: circa 1920
Soldiers at Coronation Durbar, Delhi, IndiaSoldiers in a riverside scene at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911
Soldiers and procession, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, IndiaSoldiers standing to attention and on horseback in procession at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911
Spectators at the Coronation Durbar, Delhi, IndiaSpectators on a grandstand at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911
Crowds of people at the Coronation Durbar, Delhi, IndiaCrowds of people at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911
King Emperors Camp, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, IndiaThe King Emperors Camp at the time of the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911
Assam Camp, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, IndiaThe Assam Camp at the time of the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911
Pavilion, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, IndiaThe pavilion, for the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911, with King George V and Queen Mary surrounded by crowds of people. Date: 1911
Advertisement, Shepheards and Semiramis Hotels, EgyptAdvertisement, Shepheards Hotel and Semiramis Hotel, Cairo, Egypt -- The Egyptian Hotels Ltd. Date: 1936
Comic postcard, Golf in other lands, Egypt. Date: circa 1910
Intentional Conflagrations in IndiaPage from The Graphic reporting on riots in India in 1919. Scenes of destruction include Amritsar where, on April 13th that year
Royal Garhwal Rifles armoured car at Peshawar, IndiaIndian 2nd-18th Royal Garhwal Rifles armoured car at Peshawar, India, during a period of civil disobedience instigated by Gandhi, 23 April 1930. 1930
Oglethorpe Fails in Attack on St. AugustinePart of the War of Jenkins Ear between Great Britain and Spain, James Oglethorpe led a band of English soldiers, militia, and Chickasaw and Creek Nation soldiers
The Landing at SavannahJames Edward Oglethorpe landed in Georgia in 1733 after peacefully negotiating land from the Mico of the Yamacraws Tomo-chi-chi, and is the principal founder of Savannah
The Death of Sachem WamsuttaThe funeral of Pokanoket Sachem Wamsutta, known as Alexander to the English colonists; he had died of an illness considered suspicious by his people
Gorton Party attacked in MasachusettsA group of men, women, and children run through the water towards a moored rowboat, as those on board help others climb on. Soldiers with guns in the distance chase them
Roger Williams Negotiating with CanonicusCanonicus, Sachem of the Narragansetts in the mid 17th century, sits at the entrance of his tent, warding off the rain, to negotiate a land deal with Roger Williams and another English man
Roger Williams Building his Own HomeRoger Williams, founder of the colony of Rhode Island, early abolitionist, and Puritan minister, stands looking out at the landscape, holding an axe, a partially constructed log house behind him
The Debarkment of Provisions in American ColoniesFrench sailors move provisions on shore, carrying sacks and barrels towards where more men are building houses. A group of Native Americans stand in the middle, directing people. Date: circa 1700
The Battle of Bloody BrookAn ambush on the escorted harvest wagons for the Deerfield settlements by Nipmuc warriors, led by the sachem Muttawmp. This was in retaliation to the Deerfield colony encroaching on their allies
Map of Marquettes ExplorationsA map of Jacques Marquettes missionary journey up the Mississippi river towards New France. A small dotted line marks the route there up through Green Bay to the Mississippi
Allegorical Representation of AmericaAn allegorical representation of the products and inhabitants of America; various Native American men and women crowd by a small fortified wall by the water, carrying or moving animals, products
Spanish Settlement at St. Augustine, FloridaThe Spanish settlement of what would later be the city of St. Augustine in Florida. A caravan moves down the road towards a harbour in the distance, busy with ships. Three men work in the foreground