District Collection (page 20)

Group of Bheels (Bhels), Sindh, India (now Pakistan)
Group of Bheels (Bhels, Bhils), members of a Sindhi tribe in Sindh, India (now Pakistan). They are a Hindu tribal community found mainly in the Tharparkar District. Date: circa 1890s

Bodh Gaya, Bihar, India
Bodh Gaya, a religious site linked to the Mahabodhi Temple Complex in the Gaya district, Bihar, India. Date: circa 1890s

West London District School, Ashford
Opened in 1872, the West London District School provided accommodation away from the workhouse for pauper children from the Fulham, Hammersmith, Paddington, and St George Hanover Square unions

Central London District School, Hanwell
Distant view of the Central London District Schools at Hanwell, also known as the Cuckoo Schools. The schools were opened in 1856 to house pauper children away from the workhouse

Salvation Army School at Satara, India
Indian Girls from the Salvation Army School at Satara in the Satara District of Maharashtra state of India. Pictures with their Leaders Adjutant Khusi and Ensign Kamala Bai. Date: 1922

Bad Kreuznach - Bridge Houses
Bad Kreuznach - the capital of the district of Bad Kreuznach, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It is located on the Nahe river

Hunt and Ruskin
WILLIAM HOLMAN HUNT artist, talking with John Ruskin (on the left) in the garden of Ruskins home at Coniston in the Lake District. Date: 1827 - 1910

Berlin Canal 1930S
A canal in a slum district of Berlin, Germany. Date: early 1930s

China - Tianjin (Tientsin) - Club Concordia
China - Tianjin (Tientsin) - The Imposing building housing the Club Concordia. Built in 1907, the Club Concordia, also known as the German Club

Haji Gookool Meah Mosque St. James, Trinidad
Haji Gookool Meah Mosque St. James, a district of Port of Spain, Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies. - named after the industrialist and philanthropist Haji Gokool Meah (18471939)

Shanghai District, China - Travelling by wheelbarrow across fields Date: circa 1910s

Shops on Motomachi, Yokohama, Japan
Motomachi - a district of Naka Ward in Yokohama, Japan, which consists mainly of the Motomachi Shopping Street, a five-block long stretch of boutiques and shops

Siena, Italy - Contrada - Leocorno (Unicorn)
Standard bearer of the Contrada of Leocorno (Unicorn), Siena, Italy. At birth you become a member of one of the 17 Contrade (Districts) and your life revolves around your Contrada

Siena, Italy - Contrada - Aquila (Eagle)
Standard bearer of the Contrada of Aquila (Eagle), Siena, Italy. At birth you become a member of one of the 17 Contrade (Districts) and your life revolves around your Contrada

Siena, Italy - Contrada - Onda (Wave)
Standard bearer of the Contrada of Onda (Wave), Siena, Italy. At birth you become a member of one of the 17 Contrade (Districts) and your life revolves around your Contrada

Siena, Italy - Contrada - Tartuca (Tortoise)
Standard bearer of the Contrada of Tartuca (Tortoise), Siena, Italy. At birth you become a member of one of the 17 Contrade (Districts) and your life revolves around your Contrada

Millican Dalton looking toward Derwentwater from Borrowdale
Derwentwater from High Lodore, Borrowdale, Lake District, Cumbria, England. This card features Millican Dalton (1867-1947), famous outdoors man

Obelisk of Senusret I, site of Heliopolis, Egypt
The obelisk of Senusret I, in the ancient city of Heliopolis, Egypt. Senusret erected two red granite obelisks there to celebrate his Year 30 Heb Sed Jubilee

Hill Man and Woman - Mussoorie, Uttarakhand, India
Hill Man and Woman at Mussoorie, a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun District of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Date: 1905

London District Messenger Service - Messenger boy in distinctive uniform with cap at jaunty angle. Date: circa 1905

Buxton, Derbyshire - Mineral Water spring - St. Anns Well - fed by the geothermal spring. The waters are bottled and sold internationally by Buxton Mineral Water Company. Date: circa 1910s

The Post Office, Mussoorie, India
The Post Office, Mussoorie, a hill station and a municipal board in the Dehradun District of the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand. Date: circa 1905

Rockfort, Tank and Clives House, Tiruchirappalli, India
Tiruchirappalli (formerly called Trichinopoly and nicknamed Tiruchi or Trichy) - a city in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and the administrative headquarters of Tiruchirappalli District

Kozluk District - Izmit, Turkey - The Old Armenian Quarter
Kozluk District - Izmit, Turkey -The Old Armenian Quarter Date: circa 1910

Bulaq, Egypt - Old Houses with Jumbas
Bulaq (Boulaq, Boulaque, Boulac), now a district of Cairo, Egypt. A street scne with wonderful multi-level houses with jumbas. Date: circa 1905

Police Station at Cherat - NWFP. Cherat is a hill station, immediately above the village Chapri and Saleh Khana in the Nowshera District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan

Tartar Priests from the Sergach District - Russia
Two Priests from the Volga Tartars from the Sergach District - Russia. Date: circa 1910s

Rostov-on-Don - Grand Hotel Moscow & French Consulate
The Grand Hotel Moscow and the French Consulate - Rostov-on-Don, a port city and the administrative center of Rostov Oblast and the Southern Federal District of Russia. Date: 1910

British regimental crest -Cherat Hills, Pakistan
British Indian Regimental Badges Carved into the Rock Face in the Cherat Hills. Cherat was a hill station and sanatorium for British troops above the village of Saleh Khana commanding a view over

Hindu Temple at Thanjavur, India
Hindu Temple at Thanjavur, formerly Tanjore, a municipality and the headquarters of the Thanjavur District in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Date: circa 1910s

A London Fire brigade wheeled ladder escape vehicle
Outside the London County Council boundary, Penge, to the south of London, was one of many fire brigades which had just one fire station covering its geographical area

LCC (LFB) Stores and Clothing Depot, Elgin Avenue, W9
London firefighters from the Kensington sub-station (12W) Lonsdale Road School, attending the London County Councils stores and clothing depot in Elgin Avenue, W9, to be kitted out with uniforms

Richmond, Va. Ruined buildings in the burned district. Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Date 1865

International Settlement (Old Barbary Coast), San Francisco, California, USA. The red light district - disappeared around the 1950s

Indonesia, Java, Surabaya
Toendjoengan district, Surabaya (formerly Soerabaja) is Indonesias second-largest city, and the capital of the province of East Java

India - Railway Station at Mhow. Mhow is in the Indore District in Madhya Pradesh, India. Date: circa 1910s

Mausoleum at Aruganthampoodi, Tamil Nadu, India
Aruganthampoodi is a village of great historical importance situated in the Vellore District of Tamil Nadu. The village holds the mausoleums of the family members of Tipu Sultan

Latvia - Liepaja - The Nicolai Gymnasium
Liepaja (Libau) - a city in western Latvia on the Baltic sea and the administrative center of Liepaja district. The largest city in the Kurzeme (Courland)

Chakrata, India - The Church. Chakrata (or Chakrauta) is a cantonment town in the Dehradun district in the state of Uttarakhand, Northern India, close to the border with Chinese Tibet

Bassenthwaite lake and Skiddaw Date: circa 1909

Stock Exchange in Wall Street, New York
New York Stock Exchange in the Wall Street Financial District of downtown New York, America circa 2008

American Flag and New York skyline
American Flag and the Downtown Skyline of the Financial District, New York, America circa 2008

Lake District Rambler
A rambler stops to admire the view near the Innominate Tarn, from the Haystacks, a 1750 foot mountain near Buttermere in the English Lake District. Date: 1950s

Entrance to West London District School, Ashford, Staines
Staff near the entrance to the West London District School on Woodthorpe Road, Ashford, near Staines, Surrey, opened in 1872 as the West London District School for workhouse children from Fulham

Group of boys at Wigmore Schools, West Midlands
A large group of boys at the Walsall and West Bromwich District School on Pennyhill Lane, Wigmore. They are sitting on a grassy bank wearing identical uniform

Union Workhouse, Grimsby, Lincolnshire
Entrance gateway to the Grimsby Union workhouse on Scartho Road, Grimsby (then in Lincolnshire, now in South Humberside). The buildings, opened in 1894, were designed by H.C. Scaping

Enfield Isolation Hospital, Winchmore Hill, Middlesex
The Isolation Hospital at Winchmore Hill, Enfield, Middlesex. The hospital, opened in 1900 by Enfield Urban District Council, later became known as South Lodge Hospital

St Audrys Hospital, Woodbridge, Suffolk
Aerial view of St Audrys Hospital at Woodbridge, Suffolk, originally erected in 1765 as a workhouse formerly known as the House of Industry for Looes and Wilford Incorporated Hundreds

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