Coloniale Collection

Poster advertising China Tea, marketed by the Compagnie Coloniale. A smiling Chinese man in traditional dress, with a long pigtail, sits on a large tin of tea enjoying a steaming cup

Antwerp Exhibition
A selection of handmade laces are shown by a local manufacturer at the Antwerp Exhibition, (Exposition Internationale Coloniale), Belgium

A Tuareg with his camel - French Colonial Exhibition
A Tuareg with his camel at The Colonial Exhibition at the Garden of Tropical Agriculture at Nogent-sur-Marne, just outside Paris, France. The Tuareg people are a large Berber ethnic confederation

Natives Of Tahiti
A group portrait engraving of four natives of Tahiti, in French Polynesia, sitting cross legged, one seems to be using an upturned cooking vessel as a drum. Date: circa 1901

1915 BSA Model K with despatch rider of the 109th Motorcycle Infantry Regiment, French Army. The 109th Infantry Regiment had its origins in Troupe Coloniale Martinique et Guadeloupe, created 1772

Colonial Exhibition, Marseille, France
The Rotunda Mas de Santo Estello (Pavilion of the Provence Initiative Committee) at the Colonial Exhibition, Marseille, France. 1906

Colonial Exhibition, Bois de Vincennes - Sudanese Village
Colonial Exhibition, Bois de Vincennes - Entrance to the Sudanese Village. Date: 1907

Detail of reconstruction of Temple of Angkor Wat, Cambodia
Detail of a reconstruction of the Temple of Angkor Wat, Cambodia - (Architect - Blanche, Sculptor - Auberlet) for the Exposition Coloniale Internationale de Paris. Date: 1931

Genoa, Italy - International Exhibition
The International Exhibition of Marine and Maritime Hygiene - Italian Colonial Show (Esposizione Internazionale d Igiene Marinara e Mostra Coloniale) was held in Genoa in 1914

Exposition Coloniale Internationale, Paris
Exposition Coloniale in Paris - New Caledonia (southwest Pacific Ocean) Date: 1931

Duke and Duchess of York 1931
At the Exposition Coloniale (Colonial Exhibition) in Paris, the Duke and Duchess of York are welcomed and presented with a bouquet of flowers by a group of dancers from French Indochina

Exposition Coloniale 1931
A procession of acrobats from Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) at the Exposition Coloniale (Colonial Exhibition), held in Paris, from May to October 1931

Colonial Exhibition 1931
An aerial view of the pavilion built to represent French West Africa at the International Colonial Exhibition (exposition coloniale), held at Vincennes, near Paris, from May to October 1931

Adobe Mosque - Colonial Exhibition Paris
An indigenous Mosque - Example of French West African Adobe architecture in an exhibit at the Exposition Coloniale Internationale in Paris in 1931

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