Westerners Collection

Frith Series, gateway, ancient tombs, China
Vintage 19th century photograph: Frith Series, gateway, ancient tombs, China, westerners and Chinese group

Road to the Pyramids during the Season in Egypt
The road from Cairo to the pyramids at Giza clogged with traffic on a Sunday afternoon during the season in Egypt when wealthy Westerner travelled there to enjoy the warm weather, good society

West Indian Pearl Fishers
A group of West Indian pearl fishers in boats dive for pearl amidst larger galley ships. West Indians and Westerners group on the land behind to trade for the pearls. Date: 1494

Pierre Louis Cavagnari
PIERRE LOUIS NAPOLEON CAVAGNARI French-British diplomat, murdered at his post in Cabul, proving not for the last time the dangers for westerners of venturing into Afghanistan. Date: 1841 - 1879

Comic scene in Hong Kong, China, showing a British officer in khaki uniform being carried down steep steps by two natives. Date: circa 1908

Comic scene in restaurant, Nagasaki, Japan
Comic scene in a traditional Japanese restaurant, Nagasaki, Japan, with westerners removing their shoes. Date: circa 1910

Europeans on elephants, India. Date: circa 1890s

British soldiers in China, c. 1911
A Chinese man in traditional clothes and with a queue pigtail hairstyle talks to a pipe-smoking westerner, with other men in the background

American soldier in China, possibly in the British concession in Tientsin (Tianjin). (The United States didn t request or receive extraterritorial rights in Tientsin.) Date: C.1911

Picture of Western traders at Yokohama transporting merchandise and westerners. American and French(?) ships in a harbor transporting cargo and passengers. Date 1861

Four Westerners at a table in the shade, Middle East
Four Westerners -- one woman and three men -- having drinks at a table in the shade, somewhere in the Middle East. The man and woman on the left appear to be a couple

Japanese depiction of an English Christmas
English Christmas scenes depicted by a Japanese artist, including a pantomime; making a Christmas pudding; Christmas dinner; playing croquet

Dumont Durville at Tonga
French admiral Dumont d Urville sails to Polynesia in the Astrolabe in search of remains of La Perouse : he visits Tonga and is received by the islands rulers

Circumcision in Senegal
Menfolk of Senegal are circumcised in an initiation rite while European travellers watch

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