Westernised Collection

Smoking Geisha
A nonchalant Japanese geisha girl, smoking a cigarette, wearing flip-flop sandals. Date: 1930s

Turkish women - 1920s - Liberation in Dress
A set of cards issued to reflect the fact that soon after Ataturk took over in Turkey in the 1920s, there was liberation by women from the old modes of dress

SAID BIN TAIMUR Sultan of Muscat (later renamed Oman), when Regent. He was Sultan from 1932 to 1970. He wanted to modernise Oman, but the imam opposed this. Date: 1910 - 1972

Scene showing Aborigines of Victoria, to accompany given in The Illustrated London News, which describes the native Australians sometimes visiting towns dressed in a mix of cast-off European style

Mutsuhito / Meiji / Japan
MUTSUHITO also known as MEIJI Emperor of Japan (1867-1912)

Tor Hotel, Kobe, Japan. Date: circa 1920s

Minato-Gawa (Theatre) Street, Kobe, Japan, on a wet day. Date: circa 1920

Motomachi Street, Kobe, Japan, with Sakaeya & Co on the left, selling stamps and postcards, the towns first postcard publisher. circa 1910

Street scene with parasols in Kobe, Japan
Motomachi Street, showing women with parasols, in Kobe, Japan. Date: circa 1925

Street scene with cinema in Kobe, Japan
Minato-Gawa (Theatre Street) with the Kwansai-Ichi Asahikwan Cinema in Kobe, Japan. Posters outside the cinema depict Eileen Sedgwick in The Diamond Queen (1921). Date: circa 1921

India - The residency where Havelock
Black and white. Large Westernised building which has fallen into disrepair. There is ivy growing up the outside walls, and some of the walls have fallen away

India - A winter morning view over the town, Darjeeling
Black and white. View from an elevated path over a town with Westernised buildings - the British developed the town of Darjeeling (famous for its tea) in the mid 19th century

Chinese beauty westernised, 1915
Two young Chinese women in western costume: Misses Amy and May Leu Yuk Lin, daughters of the Chinese ex-Minister, pictured in 1915

Place des Consuls, Alexandria, Egypt. Date: circa 1870

Bangkok Boulevard - Thailand - Nearing the city, we travelled under avenues of shade trees, past frame buildings, gas stations and westernised people and billboards. Date: 1952

Egyptian Tour Guide
A Dragowoman of Cairo, Egypt, one of the new educated tour guides, seen here at the tomb of the Mamelukes (Egyptian Princes). Date: 1933

Maori Woodcarving
Westernised schoolboy descendents of Maori tribes are taught the woodcarving skills of their forefathers, at a school in New Zealand. Date: 1940s

Woking Mosque, 1955
Muslims entering a mosque in Woking, Surrey, England. Date: circa 1955

Japanese Family 1930S
A young Japanese father, Oto- San, being walked to the gate of his home by his wife and two children. He is wearing a Westernised suit, while his wife is in traditional dress

Haruku / Empress of Japan
HARUKU Empress of Japan, wife of Mutsuhito

ZUNI MAN
Man of the Zuni people in somewhat westernised dress and carrying a gun

Japanese Greeting / 1878
New Years Day in Japan An illustration contrasting the difference between the old traditional, and new westernised form of dress and greeting in Japan

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