The Main Street of Dove Holes, Derbyshire, 1913Photograph of the main street of Dove Holes, near Buxton in Derbyshire, pictured in 1913. Between 1905 and 1913 a quarter of the village population, about 250 people, emigrated to Canada
A Fish Pontoon at Grimsby by Fortunio MataniaAn illustration of what was described in the Sphere as one of the greatest fishing ports in the world. In 1790 the population was less than 1, 000 and in 1907 it was 65, 000
How Navajo Indian Rugs are made - USA Date: circa 1930s
Maori Chieftain, New Zealand. Date: circa 1910s
Young Uyghur Girl - Kashgar, XinjiangYoung indigenous Uyghur girl of Kashgar. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts
Silesia PlebisciteIn Silesia, with a mixed German and Polish population, residents of Kattowitz/ Katowice await the results of the plebiscite which will divide the region
MALTHUS (1766 - 1834)THOMAS ROBERT MALTHUS philosopher, known for study of population
Babies in a cabbage patch. Date: circa 1900s
Playing the Rabana drum - Sinhalese - Colombo, Sri LankaPlaying the Rabana drum - Sinhalese people - Colombo, Sri Lanka. The Maha (big) Rabana or Banku (bench) Rabana, played by two or more people at a time is used at wedding festivals
Princess Baa of the Ashanti and her husband - GhanaPrincess Baa of the Ashanti and her husband from Ghana - pictured outside the Gold Coast Pavillion at the British Empire Exhibition at Wembley Park in 1924
The new coffee tavern at BradfordInterior and exterior views of the new coffee tavern in Bradford, inaugurated by W. E Forster, M.P in 1879. The Coffee Tavern movement was a Victorian effort to get people out of pubs
West Africa - Nigeria - Kano - Sanusi People. Date: circa late 1950s
Chinook Basket Maker - British Columbia, Canada. The use of the word Kloochman on this postcard is an example of chinook jargon, meaning Wife. Date: circa 1910s
French poster of the occupationPopulations abandonnees, faites confiance au soldat allemand! World War Two propaganda poster of occupied France encouraging the abandoned population to have confidence in German soldiers
Papua New Guinea - Elevara Mission and L. M.s MissionPapua New Guinea - Elevara Village and the L.M.S. Mission. The London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans
Census 1891Census Registrars district 31. Sub-districts 1, 2 and 3, Walton, Chertsey, Chobham, 1891 Date: 1891
Food being unloaded in the Channel Islands; Second World WarPhotograph showing the unloading of crates of food in St. Peter Port, Guernsey, 1945. After nearly five years of German occupation the civilian population of the islands had very little food
Sir James Brooke / CensusSIR JAMES BROOKE Governor of Labuan, later Rajah of Sarawak, at a time when the overseas population of the British Empire numbered 139 million
Russia - YakutskTown in eastern Russia, on the Lena river. Today it has a population of 200000 and a university. The Stolbi rocks are as impressive as ever
Synagogue at StockholmThe synagogue for Stockholms Jewish population. Date: 1881
Rio Ampayaco, Peru - Bora Indians in their village. The Bora are an indigenous tribe of the Peruvian, Colombian and Brazilian Amazon, located between the Putumayo and Napo rivers
Sudan, Africa - Shilluk Mother and her four daughters. Date: circa 1920s
Sami Family, Norway. Date: circa 1908
Five male members of the Mois Tribe, VietnamFive male members of the Mois Tribe, Binh Thuan Province, Vietnam (just about preserving their modesty). The Mountain People ( Mois is actually a derogatory term) are The Degar
Syphilis in the UK population, 1920s projection slide
Dakar, Senegal, West Africa - Lebou woman in Festival dressDakar, Senegal, West Africa - A Lebu (Lebou) woman in Festival dress - the Lebu live primarily on the peninsula of Cap-Vert. Date: 1911
Hernan Cortes (1488-1547). Spanish conquistador of the Aztec empire. He decided to sink his ships, which were anchored in the city of Villa Rica de Veracruz
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Sedentary Lifestyle not happyVietnamese Patriotic Poster - A Sedentary Lifestyle is not happy! Date: circa mid-1970s
Vietnamese Patriotic Poster - Everyone Won Date: 2nd half of the 20th century
Port Hamilton, New British HarbourVarious depictions of local life at Port Hamilton, a group of islands off the Korean Peninsula. They became a British base in 1885, but only for 2 years until 1887
Northern Barbarians. Engraving. Later colourationAncient Age. Northern Barbarians. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2020
An Udi man from ArmeniaPeople of the Caucasus series by Max Karl Tilke - An Udi man from Armenia. Date: 1910
A Yazidi womanPeople of the Caucasus series by Max Karl Tilke - A Yazidi woman (Yezidi). The Yazidis are an endogamous and mostly Kurmanji (Northern Kurdish) speaking minority, indigenous to the Kurdish regions
Khevsur woman from GeorgiaPeople of the Caucasus series by Max Karl Tilke - Khevsur woman from Georgia (based heavily on a photograph by D A Nikitin of 1881). Date: 1910
Ingiloy Woman, GeorgiaPeople of the Caucasus series by Max Karl Tilke - Ingiloy Woman, Georgia. Date: 1910
Turko-Tatar Woman from Sheki, AzerbaijanPeople of the Caucasus series by Max Karl Tilke - Turko-Tatar Woman from Sheki (Shaki - formerly Nukha), Azerbaijan. Date: 1910
SPAIN. Sitges. Spanish Civil War (1936-1939). Children summer camp in Sitges (1st May 1938). SPAIN. Madrid. Fundacion de Estudios Libertarios Anselmo Lorenzo (FAL)
Qui Hi's Last March to Padree Burrows's Go Down. An illustration to The Grand Master or Adventures of Qui Hi? in Hindostan. A Hudibrastic Poem in eight cantos by Quiz
As a precaution against possible bombing precious art, relics, sculptures and memorials where moved out of London to a secret place. This was given to the Nation by the National Art Collections Fund
People of the Andaman Islands, pictures with a European Anthropologist. The natives photographed used to speak a language that was called Bo
BIRTH CERTIFICATE 1914A 1941 copy of a birth certificate from 1914. Alan Sanderson went missing presumed dead when his ship was sunk in World War Two. Date: 1941
A large crowd gathering - north of England (possibly Leeds or Sheffield?). Date: 1908
Laos - Champasak Province - Man and woman of the Lao TheungLaos - Champasak Province - A man and woman of the Lao Theung (or Lao Thoeng) Date: circa 1910s
Malaysia - Semang peopleThe Semang are a Negrito ethnic group of the Malay Peninsula. Lowland Semang tribes are also known as Sakai (see card caption), although this term is considered to be derogatory by the Semang people
Men of the Luwo tribe making a Grain Bin in the Bahr-el-Ghazal ( Sea of GazellesMen of the Luwo tribe making a Grain Bin in the Bahr-el-Ghazal (" Sea of Gazelles" ) region of South Sudan, Africa
Western Australia - Aborigine Elders ready for a CorroboreeWestern Australia, Australia - Five Australian Aborigine Elders ready for a Corroboree (an an Australian Aboriginal dance ceremony which may take the form of a sacred ritual or an informal gathering)
Erzurum, eastern Anatolia, Turkey, Ottoman EmpireErzurum (Armenian - Karin), is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. The name " Erzurum" derives from " Arz-u Rum" (literally The Land of the Romans in Persian)
Native Market - Aden, Yemen - note the Sikh Indian and Arab merchants in the background. Date: circa 1906
