Colonialism Collection (page 8)

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 in
Captain 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 squadron
English 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 Victory
Lt. 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 wine
Midshipman 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

Lord Cornwallis receiving sons of Tipu Sultan as hostages
Lord Cornwallis receiving the sons of Tipu Sultan as hostages. 1792

Grand Durbar at Cawnpore, November 1859
Grand Durbar at Cawnpore after the Indian Mutiny, November 1859. 1859

Englishman sitting smoking a hookah, India
Englishman 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 Regiment
Victorian scrap, 12th Lancers, Cavalry Regiment stationed in India. 1858

Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Sri Lanka
Frys Cocoa and Chocolate, Cocoa Plantation, Ceylon Sri Lanka. 1893

Franco-British Exhibition, Main Street, Ballymaclinton
Franco-British Exhibition of 1908, Main Street in the Irish village of Ballymaclinton, promoting McClintons Soap. 1908

Railway tramcar or riding trolley, Mozambique
Railway tramcar or riding trolley on a banana plantation in Mozambique. 19th century

African labourers lined up to receive their wages
African 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 Tobias
Fictional 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 Africa
Street scene in Bathurst (now Banjul), Gambia, West Africa. Date: circa 1920

Soldiers at Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
Soldiers in a riverside scene at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

Soldiers and procession, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
Soldiers 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, India
Spectators on a grandstand at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

Crowds of people at the Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
Crowds of people at the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

King Emperors Camp, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
The King Emperors Camp at the time of the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

Assam Camp, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
The Assam Camp at the time of the Coronation Durbar ceremony in Delhi, India, December 1911. Date: 1911

Pavilion, Coronation Durbar, Delhi, India
The 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, Egypt
Advertisement, 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 India
Page 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, India
Indian 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. Augustine
Part 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 Savannah
James 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 Wamsutta
The 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 Masachusetts
A 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 Canonicus
Canonicus, 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 Home
Roger 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 Colonies
French 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 Brook
An 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 Explorations
A 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 America
An 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, Florida
The 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

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