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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
The Evacuation of Greeks from Gallipoli, Turkey - November 18, 1922. Date: 1922
Interior of a womans home - Durban, South Africa. Decorated weaving and beadwork decorate the walls alongside woven baskets, cookware and necklaces
The blockade of London Bridge, 1859. The congested and overcrowded state of the streets of London, particularly those in the City. Date: 1859
WW2 era - Comic Postcard - A thing of duty - no joy whateverThe Caption is A thing of duty is no joy whatever. The concept of Duty was impressed upon the population during the war as one of the planks of morale. Cute Kids WW2 Wartime humour Date: circa 1944
WW2 - The population of Paris invade the Boulevards in frenzy of joyous excitement. Date: 1945
Flemish Soldiers Memorial Crypt, ZonnbekeThe crypt is in the local cemetery. There was considersable acrimony between the French speaking population and those who spoke Flemish
51st Highland Division Stained Glass Window, VughtIn the 1944 fighting to defeat the Germans in Holland the whole area around here became the responsibility of the 51st Div
1911 Census - John Bull being measuredFront cover of The Sphere, of John Bull being measured to see if his waist has grown from the decade before. Date: April 1911
People board warship to sing Te Deum for Military VictoryThe French population of Rio de Janeiro board the Astree to sing the praise hymn Te Deum, to celebrate the capture of Puebla in the second siege of Puebla by the French army. Date: 1863
Crow Medicine Man and Medicine Horse - " He jump from hees pony to dees Red Horse." Date: 1897
Representative races of His Majestys Indian EmpireOur Hundred Million Dusky Fellow-Subjects : Representative Races of His Majestys Indian Empire. Photograph diagram representing the different regions
Maori Nose Rubbing Greeting - New Zealand - the Te hongi greeting. Date: circa 1910s
ALBIGENSIAN CRUSADE Regarded by Catholics as the stronghold of Satan, the town of Lavaur is sacked by crusaders and its population massacred as heretics Date: 3 May 1211
Picturesque illustration of an Italian Community living off Leather Lane in London. The County Council had decided at the time that they would gradually do away with a colony of Italian people living
Aden, Yemen - a large gathering (public holiday or festival or perhaps a large outdoor market?). View toward the bay. circa 1910s
Madagascar - Traditional Malagasy Houses at Mahajanga (Majunga). Date: circa 1906
A Group of Tatars - Kazakhstan. Date: circa 1920s
SPAIN GOYA WAR C1808That Is Not To Be Looked At: innocent victims amongst the Spanish population during the Peninsular War. Date: circa 1808
BABY MAKING MACHINEThe Great French Baby-making machine - Papa is exhausted by having to work so hard, but Maman is delighted... Date: 1906
WHEN TRUTH EMERGESTruth dwells at the bottom of a well - but when she emerges, the population panics
HOMELESS IN ST JAMESSEarly morning - the Enumerator taking the census in St Jamess Park. The homeless are woken and interviewed. Date: 1861
PATERFAMILIASS CENSUS 1861Paterfamilias filling up the census return. The head of a large Victorian family, consisting of several generations, fills in the census Date: 1861
Census - CruikshankTaking the Census. The head of an oversized, extended family has difficulty remembering the names of his kin and servants let alone how many there are! Date: 1851
CENSUS IN WEST END HOMEThe census in the West End: taking the tale of his household. The head of the house interviews the staff Date: 1901
POPULATION / PROPAGANDALa Maternite Embellit - Motherhood makes you beautiful Date: circa 1939
North Broadway Avenue, Albert Lea, Minnesota, USA Date: circa 1920
Cusco, Peru - Incan Indians and their Llama. Note the Cyclopean Incan walls in the background with near flawless and seamless positioning of the stones. Date: circa 1910s
South Africa - Basuto Family Date: circa 1930s
Cuba - San Luis - Santiago Province - Street Scene Date: circa 1920s
Surveyors for the Trans-Australian Railway meet AboriginalsAboriginal Tribesmen met by Surveyors for the Trans-Australian Railway. The railway ran from port Augusta in the East to Kalgoorlie in the West. Date: 1914
Papua New Guinea - Elema people - Eharo MasksElema people (of the Papuan Gulf in southeast New Guinea) practicing an elaborate cycle of masked rituals. These monumental Eharo masks were created primarily for amusement
Sart People - Tajikistan - Affluent Family - Studio Portrait. Date: circa 1910s
Bisharin Girl - EgyptBeautiful portrait photograph of a Bisharin Girl with braided hair, beads and long tunic - Egypt Date: circa 1910s
Mohi, Maori Chief, New Zealand. Date: circa 1890s
Housing poster, The Home I Want, with a quotation from Richard Reiss: You cannot expect to get an A1 population out of C3 homes
Karen people - Kayah State of Burma (now Myanmar)The Karen people, a Sino-Tibetan people living mostly in Kayah State of Burma (now Myanmar). Date: circa 1910s
Men of the Hill Tribes of Malabar, southern IndiaHill tribe men and boys from the Malabar region of southern India (lying between the Western Ghats and the Arabian Sea). Date: circa 1910s
Australian Aborigines hunting Kangaroo with boomerangsAustralian Aboriginals hunting Kangaroo with boomerangs and young Aboriginal children swinging on ropes tied to a tree. Date: circa 1903
Two Indigenous Alaskan WomenTwins - Two Indigenous Alaskan native Women wearing strings of beads (and little more..). Date: circa 1910s
Bribri Indian Shaman & Conical House, Costa RicaThe Head Shaman of the Bribri People of the Talamanca Province, Costa Rica - pictured in front of the Conical House. The Bribri spiritual practice is centred on the conical house
Sami People - Norway - with antlers and dogs Date: 1930
Women and Children of the Sakai Tribe, MalaysiaWild Group Of Sakals in Perak. The Sakai Tribe (also known as the Lowland Samang) from Perak, Malaysia. The two older women and are suckling young goats (kids) !! Date: circa 1906
Moi tribal people - Saigon, VietnamFamily of the Moi tribal people - Saigon, Vietnam. Date: circa 1910s
Edirne - formerly Andrinople, TurkeyEdirne - formerly Andrinople - close to the border with Greece and Bulgaria. Site of 16 major battles or sieges from Ancient Greek times up until the 1920s