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Cecil Avenue, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, South Central AfricaAerial view of Cecil Avenue, Ndola, Northern Rhodesia (now part of Zambia), South Central Africa. Date: 1940s
Natal Native Contingent (NCC) armed with assegaisPhotograph of members of the Natal Native Contingent (NCC) armed with assegais (short spears) and shields, 1879 (c). The NNC was formed in 1878 to bolster the defences of the British colony of Natal
St Mary in the Fields Childrens Colony, Mayfield, SussexInmates of the St Mary in the Fields Childrens Colony, Mayfield, Sussex Date: circa 1924
Empire Marketing Board poster - GibraltarEmpire Marketing Board poster showing a family on the deck of a ship which is sailing close to the rock of Gibraltar
The King of Ashantis Palace at Kumasi, 1874The King of Ashantis palace at Kumasi, the Ashanti capital, viewed from the east in 1874 towards the end of the second Ashanti War (1873-74)
Barburdar, punkah wallah or fan bearer.. handcolored copperplate engraving by an unknown artist from Asiatic Costumes, Ackermann, London, 1828
PAXTON, Joseph (1801-1865). Crystal Palace. 1851. First building with revolutionary modular, prefabricated design, and use of glass. Built for the Universal Exhibition of 1851 in Hyde Park, London
Ewell Epileptic Colony, Epsom, SurreyLime Villa at the Ewell Epileptic Colony, Hook Road, Epsom, Surrey. The colony, opened in 1903 by the London County Council, was later known as Ewell Mental Hospital and then as St Ebbas Hospital
Fante Soldiers serving with the British against the AshantiSoldiers from the Fante tribe who served under the British in their war against the Ashanti empire on the Gold Coast
Great Barr Colony, StaffordshireGreat Barr colony for mental defectives, opened circa 1918 by the Walsall and West Bromwich Joint Committee to house people with severe learning difficulties
Vietnam / Map C1930 FrenchCard produced when La Cochinchine was a French colony
Quakers Sail to New WrldWilliam Penn and other Quakers sail to the New World in the Welcome
Diogo Cao discovers the mouth of the Zaire RiverPortuguese Colonial History Series - The mouth of the Zaire River discovered by Diogo Cao in 1484 - the erection of a Portuguese standard column. Date: 1484
The Hon. Josslyn and Lady Idina HayThe Hon. Josslyn Hay, later Earl of Erroll, and his wife, the former Lady Idina Sackville pictured at Gil Gil, Kenya Colony in British East Africa where they built a farm, Clouds
Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552) in Goa (India)Saint Francis Xavier (1506-1552), Spanish missionary, through the streets of the Portuguese colony of Goa (India) in 1542. French engraving, 1850. Colored
RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Zapotec Civilization. 1947. Mural Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Colony in the corridor of the north wall. Detail
Under the Cherry Tree (1884). Lavery, Sir John 1856-1941. Born in Belfast, Lavery began his artistic training in Glasgow
King George V shooting Tigers in India from a howdah - 1911. Date: 1911
Senegal and Niger, French Colonies in Africa - Map showing main transport routes. Date: circa 1909
Hunting Trophies - A Good Bag - British East Africa (Modern Kenya). Date: circa 1910s
Convict transportation to AustraliaList of convicts embarked on the ship Merchantman from Portland to Western Australia, June 1864 Date: 1864
Langho Colony, Ribblesdale, LancashireAerial view of the Langho Colony set up in 1906 by the Chorlton and Manchester Unions for the treatment of patients suffering from epilepsy
Poster advertising CasablancaPoster for the PLM, advertising Casablanca, Morocco
Fort Jamrud, Peshawar, Khyber Pass, now PakistanVintage 19th century photograph, India - Fort Jamrud, Peshawar, Khyber Pass, now Pakistan
Advert, Australian Butter for the Homeland. 1936
Imperial Hotel, Parys, Orange River Colony, South Africa. Date: 1910s
Gordons Bay, Western Cape, Cape Colony, South Africa. Date: 1906
The Coronation Durbar, Delhi - George V - 1911The Coronation Durbar, Delhi - 12th December 1911. The King Emperor (George V) and Queen Empress (Mary) presenting themselves to their people Date: 1911
Wartime poster, The British Colonial Empire (Ceylon)Wartime poster, The British Colonial Empire, featuring a member of the Ceylon Garrison Artillery, with the Ceylon badge below, and the names of all the colonial countries listed on either side. 1940s
Kroonstad, Orange River Colony, South AfricaMethodist Church and Cross Street, Kroonstad, Orange River Colony, South Africa. Date: circa 1905
Achill Island, Co Galway, Ireland - The Dugort ColonyAchill Island, County Galway, Ireland - The Dugort Colony Date: circa 1903
The landing of Nuno Tristao in GuineaPortuguese Colonial History Series - The landing of Nuno Tristao (15th century Portuguese explorer and slave trader) in Guinea - purported to be the first European visitor to the country
Punic Wars, attack on Carthage, SicilyPUNIC WARS : war with Carthage begins when the Roman senator Appius Claudius Caudex backs an unjustified attack on the Carthaginian colony in Sicily
India - the Amir of Kabul Afghanistan 1860s19th century vintage photograph India - the Amir of Kabul Afghanistan Shepherd and Robertson, 1860s
India - a maharaja, child prince and his officials 1860s19th century vintage photograph India - India - a maharaja and his officials, Shepherd and Robertson, 1860s
India - a maharaja and his officials19th century vintage photograph - India - a maharaja and his officials
c. 1880s India- Lauries hotel Agrac. 1880s India - image from an album of Indian types and trades designed to illustrate India to a British viewer - Lauries hotel Agra
King George V shooting expedition 1911His Imperial Majesty making his way through the jungle during the great big-game shoot in Nepal. Date: December 1911
The Flag of Bermuda Date: circa 1930s
Wartime poster, The British Colonial Empire (African Rifles)Wartime poster, The British Colonial Empire, featuring a member of the Kings African Rifles, with the regiment badge below, and the names of all the colonial countries listed on either side. 1940s
Band, Darenth Training Colony Band, KentThe military band at the Darenth Training Colony near Dartford in Kent
Darenth Schools and Training Colony, KentThe Darenth Schools (top left), near Dartford in Kent, were opened in 1878 by the Metropolitan Asylums Board as a residential institution for imbecile children from London
Dreyfus on Devils IsleALFRED DREYFUS French army officer and victim of injustice as a prisoner on Devils Island
Edmund Y. W HendersonLIEUTENANT-COLONEL SIR EDMUND YEAMANS WALCOTT HENDERSON shown soon after he was appointed as Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police in 1869. He succeed the late Sir Richard Mayne in this post
Trinidad PostmanA postman in the (then) British colony of Trinidad is offered a pineapple by a grateful recipient of mail
Public works in Western Australia. The bridge across the river Swan at North Fremantle. It has been erected entirely by convict labour, under the administration of his Excellency Governor Hampton
HMS Doris, launched in March 1896. Eclipse Class cruiser - present during the Boer War - ship's guns used at Magersfontein in 1899 during the Second Boer War, South Africa
West Street showing Faulkner and Colony Mills, Keene, New Hampshire, USA. Date: circa 1908
Algiers, Algeria, French Admiralty and Torpedo Boast StationAlgiers, Algeria - The French Admiralty and Torpedo (Submarine) Boat Station Date: circa 1908
Summer House (Groote Schuur), Cape Town, South Africa. Situated on the slopes below Table Mountain. Now in the grounds of the Middle Campus of the University of Cape Town
Iberian Peninsula. Ancient History. From left to right; figures 1 to 6: Phoenicians, figures 7 to 11: Celtiberians. Chromolithography. Historia General de Espana, by Modesto Lafuente. Volume I
Iberian Peninsula. Ancient History. Phoenicians. Figures 1 to 5: illustrations inspired by antiquities from the Cerro de los Santos. Figure 6: Phoenician from a small lamp in the Museum of Tarragona
Iberian Peninsula. Ancient History. Phoenicians. Figures 2 to 5: illustrations inspired by antiquities from the Cerro de los Santos. Figure 6: Phoenician from a small lamp in the Museum of Tarragona
Zeus. Head of a marble statue. Second half of the 2nd century AD. From Gigen (Ulpia Oescus), Pleven region, Bulgaria. National Archaeological Museum. Sofia. Bulgaria
General James Oglethorpe at Dr. Johnson's booksale, 1785General James Oglethorpe, died 1786 aged 102
The Queensland Department at the Paris Exposition, 1867Visitors looking at the cases of birds, products, and export items in the Queensland Department, Australia, at the Paris Exposition Universelle, 1867
Entrance to the Australian Section, Paris Exposition, 1867Visitors walking past bales of wool from Victoria, Australia, at the entrance to the Australian Section, Paris Exposition Universelle, 1867
Man of the Kingdom of Candia, Ottoman Empire. In turban, short coat, sash belt, harem pants and slippers. Now the Greek island of Crete. Homme de l'isle de Candie
Woman of the island of Lemnos, Ottoman EmpireWoman of the island of Lemnos under the Ottoman Empire, She wears a veil, bodice, skirts, apron, harem pants, slippers. Mythical land of Hephaestus or Vulcan, gods of the forge
Anterior nectophore species, Sulculeolaria quadrivalvis. Male and female colonies. Found of the Mediterranean coast of Nice. Galeolaire orangee, Galeolaria aurantiaca. Meduse de la cote de Nice
Rusty pods, Hovea longifolia. Spikeletted hovea, Hovea racemulosa. Native to the Swann River colony, western Australia
View of the town of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 1808. With 250 houses, observatory tower, windmills, vice-governor William Paterson's botanical garden, and ships in the harbour
Eora (Yura) men Cour-rou-bari-gal and Y-erran-gou-la-gaEora (Yura) men Cour-rou-bari-gal 1 and Y-erran-gou-la-ga 2. Aborigines of New South Wales, both with scarification and body painting. The tribes were decimated by smallpox from the colonists
View of the port town of Macau, China, circa 1800s. Portuguese colony with European-style houses on the harbour. The feeble defenses are manned by only 150 Sepoys or Indian soldiers
French Guiana. Salvation Islands. Devil's Island, enabled as a prison colony, where the former French captain Alfred Dreyfus served his sentence between 1895 and 1899
Croatia, Solin. Ancient city of Salona. Archaeological ruinsCroatia, Solin. Ancient city of Salona. Colonia Martia Ivlia Valeria. It was the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia. Archaeological ruins
Croatia, Solin. City of Salona. The amphitheatre ruinsCroatia, Solin. Ancient city of Salona. Colonia Martia Ivlia Valeria. It was the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia
Croatia, Solin. City of Salona. Ruins of the amphitheatreCroatia, Solin. Ancient city of Salona. Colonia Martia Ivlia Valeria. It was the capital of the Roman province of Dalmatia. Ruins of the amphitheater, built in the second half of the 2nd century AD
