Population Collection

A Fish Pontoon at Grimsby by Fortunio Matania
An 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

The Main Street of Dove Holes, Derbyshire, 1913
Photograph 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

How Navajo Indian Rugs are made - USA Date: circa 1930s

Maori Chieftain, New Zealand. Date: circa 1910s

Young Uyghur Girl - Kashgar, Xinjiang
Young indigenous Uyghur girl of Kashgar. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Silesia Plebiscite
In 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 Lanka
Playing 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 - Ghana
Princess 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 Bradford
Interior 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 occupation
Populations 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 Mission
Papua 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 1891
Census Registrars district 31. Sub-districts 1, 2 and 3, Walton, Chertsey, Chobham, 1891 Date: 1891

Food being unloaded in the Channel Islands; Second World War
Photograph 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 / Census
SIR JAMES BROOKE Governor of Labuan, later Rajah of Sarawak, at a time when the overseas population of the British Empire numbered 139 million

Russia - Yakutsk
Town 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 Stockholm
The 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

Western Australia - Aborigine Elders ready for a Corroboree
Western 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)

Young South African girl in the bush Date: circa 1910s

Sudan, Africa - Shilluk Mother and her four daughters. Date: circa 1920s

Sami Family, Norway. Date: circa 1908

Five male members of the Mois Tribe, Vietnam
Five 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

A large crowd gathering - north of England (possibly Leeds or Sheffield?). Date: 1908

Laos - Champasak Province - Man and woman of the Lao Theung
Laos - Champasak Province - A man and woman of the Lao Theung (or Lao Thoeng) Date: circa 1910s

Malaysia - Semang people
The 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 Gazelles
Men of the Luwo tribe making a Grain Bin in the Bahr-el-Ghazal (" Sea of Gazelles" ) region of South Sudan, Africa

Erzurum, eastern Anatolia, Turkey, Ottoman Empire
Erzurum (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

West Africa - Nigeria - Kano Woman - Sanusi People
West Africa - Nigeria - Kano Woman with a wicker mat rolled-up under her arm - Sanusi People. Date: circa late 1950s

San Francisco, California, USA - Chinatown, Fortune Teller. Date: 1904

Syphilis in the UK population, 1920s projection slide

Dakar, Senegal, West Africa - Lebou woman in Festival dress
Dakar, 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 happy
Vietnamese 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 Harbour
Various 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 colouration
Ancient Age. Northern Barbarians. Engraving. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration. Date: 2020

An Udi man from Armenia
People of the Caucasus series by Max Karl Tilke - An Udi man from Armenia. Date: 1910

A Yazidi woman
People 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 Georgia
People 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, Georgia
People of the Caucasus series by Max Karl Tilke - Ingiloy Woman, Georgia. Date: 1910

Turko-Tatar Woman from Sheki, Azerbaijan
People 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

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