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man with a backpack

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An unidentified man from his left side in Tangier, Morocco. He stands on long grass with a backdrop behind him. He wears a turban, a short robe, shorts, and shoes without heels. He carries a full...

Date Published
1894 to 1900

Mary, Queen of Scots

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A photograph of the Alexander Ritchie Etching after the painting by J.B. Wanderforde of a portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots, standing, facing left, with Holyrood Palace in the background. She holds a...

Monk inside gateway entrance to Temple of the Tooth

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Entrance to the Buddhist temple, Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A monk stands under the arched gateway into the temple with one hand on the left wall of the gateway. The...

Date Published
1894 to 1900

Peasant woman carries a basket on her head

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A peasant woman in Japan carries a large, round basket with low sides on her head, as she smiles at the camera. The basket is filled with large leaves. She stands on rocky barren soil. A donkey stands...

Prayers offered by the tombs of Mahmud II and Abdulaziz

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A man kneels on a pillow by a foldable book stand with an open book on it, in front of the two tombs in the interior view of the Sultan Mahmud II mausoleum, showing the tombs of Sultan Mahmud II and...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Rubber tree clearing

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A hill filled with stumps of Manihot Glaziovii, a tree that produces Ceara India-Rubber that have been clear cut in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A Sri Lanken man stands in the foreground with his hand on...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Scotsman dancing a sword dance

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An unidentified Scotsman in ceremonial Highland attire is dancing a sword dance over crossed swords lying on the ground. Both hands are raised waist high at the elbows, palms up, fingers curled. His...

Date Published
1871 to 1880

Singhalese lady

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An unidentified Sinhalese woman in traditional clothing and jewelry rests her forearm and elbow on a table and touches her ear with her left hand in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon], in a close-up photograph...

Date Published
1894 to 1900

Sri Lanka man plays a pungi for a cobra snake to move to

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A barefoot Sri Lankan man in traditional clothing, who is a snake charmer, crouches on the ground and closes his eyes as he plays a pungi in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A cobra snake is on the ground in...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Statue of Henri IV of France in Pau, France

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A statue of Henry IV in Place Royale in Pau, France. Henry IV extends his right hand, palm up, out to his low right. He turns his head slightly to the right with a smile. With his left hand, he holds...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Tea estate in Sri Lanka

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Panorama of a tea estate in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon], shows a white man wearing a pith helmet standing outside a large, two-story house with surrounding gardens while the hills completely surrounding...

Date Published
1894 to 1900

Tea laborer harvesting tea leaves

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A Tamil woman laborer looks down as she is plucking tea leaves from a tea bush in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. She carries a basket from a strap around her waist for the harvested leaves. She wears...

Date Published
1894 to 1900

Tomb of the Virgin Mary and grotto of agony

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A man stands on the grounds of the Tomb of Virgin and the Grotto of Agony. The stone paved grounds lead to a stone building with an arched gateway. To the right of the building is a narrow lane...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Turkish woman

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A photograph of a Turkish woman sitting in a chair with fringe on the arm and looking up and to the right. She wears a head covering and a scarf over her face. She also wears a robe of intricate sewn...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Venus

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A photograph of the head of a sculpture of Venus as she looks over her right shoulder with her hair banded up. The sculpture resides in the Pitti Palace gallery in Florence, Italy. Printed along the...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Walls of a fort by a body of water

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The walls and parapets of a fortification stand in the back of the photograph as a black man wearing a suit and a derby hat leans on the fence of a bridge that spans water just outside of the rock...

Date Published
1895 to 1900

Water porter in Jerusalem

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A Middle Eastern man wearing a turban, carries water stored in the cavity of a hog by ropes strapped to his back in Jerusalem. He stands in front of a tall stone wall. Printed below the photograph,...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Whaling harpoon

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A photograph of a man, from his right side, working with a whaling harpoon mounted on a wooden deck and pointed toward a body of water. A shoreline rises from the water behind him. Large ropes are...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Wife from Bergen, Norway

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Native woman from Bergen, Norway, stands looking directly at the camera, wearing traditional peasant clothing. The head covering, called a skaut, indicates that this woman is married. She carries a...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Woman in repose in Tangier, Morocco

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An unidentified Moroccan woman in repose on her left side in Tangier, Morocco. Her eyes look a bit to the right and not at the camera. She boosts herself from two stacked mattresses, a mat, and two...

Date Published
1894 to 1900

Woman riding a carriage by Hardanger fjord

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Photograph from the side of a woman riding a horse-drawn carriage that is stopped for a moment by Hardanger fjord, Odda harbor in Norway. A ship is anchored in the center of the fjord with its sails...

woman wearing a chador

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An unidentified woman wearing a chador covers her lips with a hand that is under the chador Tangier, Morocco, and looks directly at the camera with her head bent slightly forward. She stands in front...

Date Published
1894 to 1900