Population Collection (page 8)

New York - A First Impression by Helen McKie
A first impression of New York by the Bystanders globe-trotting lady artist-reporter, Helen McKie showing its famous skyscrapers and the multi-racial crowds in Fifth Avenue and on Broadway. Date: 1927

Chinipis Indians, Argentina Date: 1910

Indigenous Peruvian Indians at Lake Titicaca, Peru Date: circa 1910s

Bolivian dancer in decorated costume
The translation of the caption of this card is rather lovely: " A great dancer in fancy dress embroidered in gold" La Paz, Bolivia Date: circa 1910s

Messina Earthquake - Victor Emmanuel III
Messina Earthquake - Visit of the King of Italy, Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947), who assisted the First Aid relief effort

Mexican Revolution -
Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) - local people - the men and boys stand, whilst the women and babies sit on the street (one is asleep). Date: circa 1911

Benin - Scenes & Places
The Republic of Benin (formerly Dahomey) - places depicted on the card are capital city Porto-Novo, a house of the indigenous population (one of whom is pictured in the inset oval)

Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1923 (4 / 9)
Tokyo Earthquake, Japan 1st September 1923 - the earthquake and typhoon killed an estimated 99, 300 people. Here, refugees lines the platforms of Tokyo Station, desperate to flee the burning city

Catholic Mission - Chesterfield, Newfoundland
The Eskimo (Inuit) Catholic Mission - Chesterfield, Newfoundland and Labrador in January. Date: circa 1920s

Inuit Chief and his wife - Alaska (Island of Detroit, Bering) Date: circa 1910s

Where to eat dinner with chopsticks a la chinoise
Scene from 1920 of a Chinese restaurant in Londons Chinatown in Limehouse. The first Chinese to settle in Britain arrived in the late 18th century

Plentiful crop of Babies - Utah, United States
A plentiful crop of Babies from Utah, United States. Date: 1906

Sami Father and Son Date: circa 1920

Moro Constabulary, Philippines
Moro Constabulary with American officers in dress uniform, Philippines. The Moro people are mostly Muslim indigenous people of Southern Philippines. Date: circa 1910s

Aboriginal Mother and Baby with supplies
An aboriginal Mother, carrying her baby on her back, taking food obtained from the Tea and Sugar train back to her wurley (a shelter or hut, made of branches and leaves)

Population Postcard 1930
French postcard encouraging population growth - If France is to live, join the Alliance against depopulation... Date: 1930s

Taking the census on board ship 1861
Taking the census on board ship in the West India Docks Date: 1861

Prams, Babies & Mothers
Population explosion: prams and babies lined up outside a building in Ware, Hertfordshire; several women mind the children Date: circa 1965

Government Medical Inspectors Office
Emigration - The Government Medical Inspectors Office. As the text describes: No passenger ship is allowed to proceed until a medical practitioner appointed by the emigration office of the port shall

Chapel building, Penyrorsedd, North Wales
A large chapel building at Penyrorsedd in the Nantlle Valley, Caernarvonshire (now Gwynedd), North Wales, with a ramshackle stone wall and what looks like an old iron bedstead in the foreground

Census tabulation in former Lambeth workhouse
Data from the 1931 census being transferred to punched cards in the former Lambeth workhouse - presumably the one on Princes Road (now Black Prince Road), Lambeth, south London

Balkan War 1912 - Lesbos (Metelin) returns to Greek control amid scenes of great celebration

Native American Indian Basketry
Native American Indian Basketmaking

Aumale, Algeria - the Indigenous School. Named after a region in Normandy, France

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba - Loma Sur, Caimanera, South Hill. The United States assumed territorial control over Guantanamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban-American Treaty

Guantanamo Bay - Brooklyn Bridge, Caimanera
A celebration procession passing across the Brooklyn Bridge - Caimanera, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The United States assumed territorial control over Guantanamo Bay under the 1903 Cuban-American Treaty

Papua New Guinea - Ekiti Village, Sogeri - Tree House
A fantastic treehouse at Ekiti Village, Sogeri, Papua New Guinea

Sri Lanka - Tamil Woman

Native Dancers at Port Moresby - Papua New Guinea
Native Dancers dancing amongst the breadfruit at Port Moresby - Papua New Guinea

South Africa - Kraal Village in Northern Transvaal
South Africa - The Moshudy Lenchwees Kraal Village in Northern Transvaal

Papua New Guinea - Elevara Mission
Papua New Guinea - Elevara Village viewed from the L.M.S. Mission. The London Missionary Society was a non-denominational missionary society formed in England in 1795 by evangelical Anglicans

Sri Lanka - Veddahs cooking
The Wanniyala-Aetto, or forest people, more commonly known as Veddas or Veddahs are an indigenous people of Sri Lanka - seen here preparing a meal

Kashgar Trip - Uyghur Woman - Headdress
Indigenous Uyghur woman of Kashgar with a remarkable headdress. A wonderful photographic portrait by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Indigenous Uyghur men of Kashgar. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Model of Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb
A small scale model of Central Square, Hampstead Garden Suburb. Central Square was laid out by Sir Edwin Lutyens, and includes St Judes Church, The Free Church and a Quaker Meeting House

Hut Tax War, Sierra Leone
A good specimen of a taxed hut, the subject of the Hut Tax War, an insurrection by the native population in pockets of Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Frontier Police
Photograph of Sierra Leone frontier police who joined with the Mendi expedition of West Indian Regiment troops to put down the insurrection of the native population in what is known as the Hut Tax

Spahis exercising - Algeria
Spahis were light cavalry regiments of the French army recruited primarily from the indigenous populations of Algeria. Here they are doing sword exercises

Chosan, Korea - Village Street
Chosan is a kun (or county), in Chagang province, North Korea. It borders the Peoples Republic of China to the north. This picture predates the countrys split

Chorotes Indians - Jujuy Province, Argentina
Chorotes Indians - Jujuy Province, Ledesma, Argentina

Hunting Lodge of Indigenous Indians, Mexico
House or Choza of indigenous Indians, Mexico - used to spend the night during hunting trips

Abyssinian Expedition: The Exodus of Theodores Broken Army
The British 1868 Expedition to Abyssinia was a punitive expedition against King Theodore, after he had imprisoned missionaries and representatives of the British Government

Woman from Kashgar
A woman from Kashgar, in Xinjiang Province, China. She is likely a Uyghur woman, of Turkic ethnic extraction. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts

Native House - Singapore (then part of New Guinea ), with a distinctive high pointed roof

People of Borneo
A large crowd of villagers from a village in Borneo, Indonesia - then a Dutch colony (The Dutch East Indies)

Now that Women are doing Mens Jobs
Festive illustration by George Ernest Studdy (1878-1948) showing a woman dressed up as Father Christmas. The illustration is a festive metaphor for the increase in women taking over mens roles during

War Nerves - Terrible Effect of a Clap of Thunder
An edgy population descend into panic on hearing a clap of thunder, convinced it is a zeppelin bomb. The result of propaganda and the spread of hysteria in the opening months of World War One

British, German and Austrian Rations, First World War, 1918
Illustration showing the relative food rationing in Great Britain, Germany and Austria for the civilian population in 1918, during the First World War

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