Coolies Collection

Rubber Plantation - Malaysia - Overseer and Coolies. Date: circa 1910s

Man wearing a straw coolie hat sits on a stool, Hong Kong
A man wearing a straw coolie hat sits on a stool on small sampan wooden boat in Hong Kong. He is barefoot, holds the oars, wears a coolies hat and has a cigarette in his hand

Laos - Forest Coolies (Labourers) in the Upper Mekong region
Laos - Forest Coolies (Labourers - derogatory term) in the Upper Mekong region of the Khas Kouenes tribe. Date: circa 1908

Rubber Tree to Finished Motor Tyres 1907
Showing the plantation where the rubber is produced for the Dunlop Tyres factory where it is pressed, stretched and moulded into shape ready to be used on motorcars. Date: 1907

Working elephants and estate coolies, India, c. 1880 s
Working elephants and estate coolies, India, c.1880 s

Ascending a mountain in China with coolies
Ascending a mountain in China, with coolies expertly assisting the visitors, carrying them along in bamboo chairs. 1859

KAILAN COAL MINES 1930S
Chinese miners pushing trolleys of coal on rails at the (British) Kailan coal mines, China. Date: 1930s

Assam tea industry in India
India - Various aspects of tea cultivation in the state of Assam. Date: circa 1870

Arab porters in Iraq carrying long planks of wood through a palm grove. Date: 1910s

Arab porters in Main Street, Baghdad, Iraq. circa 1917

A group of Coolies, India. Historically, a coolie (variously spelled cooli, cooly, kuli, quli, koelie etc.) was an Asian slave or manual labourer, particularly in southern China

South Africa - Transvaal - Chinese Coolies in a Compound

Social / Coolies Breakfast
Chinese coolies eating a meal in a snowy street at Beijing (Peking) Date: circa 1929

Coolies (Indentured Labourers) Carrying Stone, Zanzibar, Tanzania. Date: 1911

Japan - A Handcart and coolies
Lantern slide of a Handcart and coolies. Coolies refers to the workers and is a contemporary racial slur.. Part of Box 158 Japan, part of Boswell Collection, slide no. 12 Date: circa 1890s

Two coolies, China
Two coolies with sweeping brushes, China. Date: circa 1890

Chinese Mining Boy, South Africa
A Chinese Mining Boy, South Africa. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

Chinese Mining Boys - South Africa
Three Chinese Mining Boys. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

Chinese Musicians - one playing an Erhu - South Africa
Chinese Musicians - one pictured playing an Erhu - in South Africa. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

Hong Kong - China - Street Coolies. The first and last are clad in straw raincoats while the one in the centre is carrying provisions purchased from the market. circa 1910s

Zhenjiang, China - Labourer pull cart of rocks - street Date: 1920

Russo-Japanese War - Japanese marking Chinese Coolies for Identification. Date: circa 1905

Police in Chinese Compound, South Africa - contracted miners
Police in a Chinese Compound, South Africa. Between 1904 and 1910, over 63, 000 contracted miners were brought in to work the mines of the Witwatersrand

Conrad / Typhoon / Chinese
TYPHOON Short story by Joseph Conrad...the Chinamen were lying prostrate about the decks Date: First published: 1902

Tea Culture in India: 1. Bridge over the River Ool, on the Road to Kulu. 2. Rolling the leaves by hand. 3. Weighing and packing for the London market. 4

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