Colony Collection (page 2)

Map, Gold Coast Colony, Ghana, West Africa, with the main cocoa producing areas shaded, a railway line and steamship routes. Also a gold mining area. Date: circa 1920

19th century vintage photograph India - village life in Bengal, Samuel Bourne, 1860s

19th century vintage photograph India - Jain temples Halebidu

Strand Road, Rangoon, Yangon, Burma, Myanmar, c.1890

India - bullock cart
19th century vintage photograph India - bullock cart

India - Raja of Mahmudabad
19th century vintage photograph India - Raja of Mahmudabad

c. 1880s India - fakir or holyman, beggar
c. 1880s India - image from an album of Indian types and trades designed to illustrate India to a British viewer - fakir or holy man

Norfolk Island as a penal settlement, 1853
Norfolk Island as a penal settlement: a drawing, made in 1853, showing the buildings as they appeared when the Pacific island was a penal colony. 1) Commissariat and magazine. 2) Military barracks

Mother of pearl divers attacked by a shark, Tahiti. Date: 1885

Man carrying fruit on a pole, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Date: 1922

Dancer in traditional costume, Tahiti, French Polynesia
Dancer in traditional costume, including an elaborate hat or tiara made of red hibiscus flowers, and a silver-coloured dress made of raffia, Tahiti, French Polynesia

Habr Awal men, Zaila District, Somaliland, East Africa
Habr Awal (Habr Wal) men, Zaila (Zeila) District, Somaliland (then part of the British Empire), East Africa. Date: 1922

German East Africa - a Mango Tree full of fruit
circa 1910s

Likoma, Lake Nyasa - waiting for the Mission Steamer
Likoma on Likoma Island, Lake Nyasa (Lake Malawi), Malawi - waiting for the arrival of the Mission Steamer. Malawi was at this stage Nyasaland, a British protectorate established in 1907. circa 1910s

Bairro do Macuti - Beira - Mozambique
Bairro do Macuti (Beach) - Beira - Mozambique. Beira was originally developed by the Portuguese Mozambique Company in the 19th century

Africa Cape Colony pre-1900

Kalaupapa Leper Colony, Hawaii - Victorian period

Leper Colony, Kalaupapa, Hawaii, USA

Standard Bank and Post Office - Cape Town, South Africa
Standard Bank and Post Office - Adderley Street, Cape Town, South Africa Date: circa 1908

Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony, Victorian period

History of Africa. Ambriz Coast
History of Africa. 19th century. Ambriz Coast. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre. Historia de los Trabajos y Exploraciones Verificados

The Congo - First main Colonial Post established in Kinshasa
History of Africa. 19th century. The Congo. The first main Colonial Post established in Kinshasa (near Stanley Pool). Henry Morton Stanley established a trading post on the shore of Ngaliema Bay in

Gulf of Guinea. Coffee plantation on the island of Sao Tome
History of Africa. 19th century. Gulf of Guinea. Coffee plantation on the island of Saint Thome. Alvaro Caminha founded the colony of Sao Tome in 1493. Engraving

Africa. Loanda. St. Paul of Loanda. Market Square
History of Africa. 19th century. Loanda. Saint Paul of Loanda. View of the Market Square. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

Africa. Floating factory on the shrimp river
History of Africa. 19th century. Floating factory on the shrimp river. The lack of security meant that in some areas of the Congo

Africa. Loanda. San Pablo de Loanda. Panorama of the port
History of Africa. 19th century. Loanda. St. Paul of Loanda. Panorama of the port. Engraving. El Congo y la Creacion del Estado Independiente de este nombre

Royal Tomb in Cabinda
History of Africa. 19th century. Royal Tomb in Cabinda. At the death of a member of the royal family or of a distinguished family

Turkey. Constantinople. Galata Tower
Ottoman Empire. Turkey. Constantinople (today Istanbul). Galata Tower or Tower of Christ. It was buit in 1348 during an expansion of the Genoese colony in Constantinople

Abor exploratory expeditions
Photographs from the Abor Expedition. In 1911??12 as part of the Abor Expedition, the Survey of India conducted widespread surveying of the tributaries of the Brahmaputra. Morshead was in a team

The Queen- Empress riding into Delhi. Mary of Teck (May 1867 ??March 1953) was Queen consort of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions from the accession of her husband,  King George V

The Emperor of India with Lord Hardinge descending from the platform on arrival at Delhi to inspect the guard of honour, December 7, 1911

Golfing in the Congo
A golf course at Elizabethville in the Belgian Congo. The Elizabethville Golf Club had about 100 members, mainly British and Belgian. Date: circa 1931

American War of Independence. Anglo-Spanish War (1779-1783)
American War of Independence. Revolution of the Thirteen Colonies. Anglo-Spanish War (1779-1783). Spanish Siege of Pensacola (March 9-May 8, 1781). Capture of Pensacola

Captain John Piper
A portrait oil painting of John Piper, a military officer in the colony of New South Wales, who was promoted to the rank of Captain in 1800. He is seen here wearing his uniform. Date: 1826

Governors of West African colonies
Five Governors of British West African colonies, gathered for a conference in Lagos, Nigeria. Sir Thomas Southorn (1879-1957), Sir Arnold Hodson (1881-1944), Sir Bernard H

Dutch Reformed Church, Worcester, Cape Colony, South Africa
Dutch Reformed Church (Die Moederkerk), Worcester, Cape Colony, South Africa. Date: circa 1930

Victoria's Memorial Service, Victoria Park, Sierra Leone
Queen Victoria's Memorial - Service held in Victoria Park, Freetown, Sierra Leone on 2nd February 1901. On the day of the late Queen's funeral - services such as this were held all across

BELTRAME, Achille (1871-1945). Battle in Transwaal in October 1899, during the Second Boer War. Engraving

Ian Smith, Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia
Ian Douglas Smith (1919-2007), best known as the Prime Minister of the British self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia

The Island of the Dead was the destination for all who died inside the prison camps at former convict settlement on the Tasman Peninsula, in Tasmania, Australia

Cecil Rhodes (1853 - 1902), British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. Date: 1898

PORTUGUESE TAKE DIU 1509
A sea battle in the harbour of Diu, on the west coast of India, results in the death of Sultan Badur and Portuguese annexation. Inset : Nugno d'Acona who founds the colony. Date: 1509

FRENCH OFFICERS IN TEXAS
After the defeat of Napoleon, general Lallemand, condemned to death at the restoration, goes with other officers to Texas where he founds a colony of exiles run on spartan lines Date: 1816

19th century vintage photograph India - Nautch Girls dancing, 1860s Samuel Bourne

19th century vintage photograph - Spain Granada view of the Alhambra, by Juan Laurent

19th century vintage photograph - Egypt - tomb of the Caliphs, Mamluks, Cairo, camel train

19th century vintage photograph India - The Residency from the Garden - attrib to Samuel Bourne

19th century vintage photograph India - Kuki Khel, Afridi native regiment, British army, c.1880s

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