Narrow results:
Place
- East Asia (28)
- Europe (19)
- Central and South Asia (8)
- Middle East and North Africa (8)
- Latin America and the Caribbean (7)
- North America (4)
- Africa (2)
- Oceania and the Pacific (2)
- World (1)
Time
- 1850 CE - 1899 CE (33)
- 1900 CE - 1949 CE (31)
- 1800 CE - 1849 CE (7)
- 1950 CE - 2010 CE (7)
- 1500 CE - 1699 CE (5)
- 1700 CE - 1799 CE (5)
- 500 CE - 1499 CE (1)
Topic
- Costume & personal appearance
- History & geography (46)
- Arts & recreation (20)
- Social sciences, sociology & anthropology (7)
- Social groups (6)
- Culture & institutions (1)
- Commerce, communications & transportation (1)
- Railroad transportation (1)
- Customs of life cycle & domestic life (1)
- General customs (1)
Additional Subjects
- Women (32)
- Portrait photographs (29)
- Clothing and dress (23)
- Memory of the World (18)
- Chinese (12)
- Woodcuts (11)
- Ukiyo-e (10)
- Group portraits (9)
- Men (9)
- Courtesans (6)
- Portraits (5)
- Beauty, personal (4)
- Feminine beauty (Aesthetics) (4)
- Mongols (4)
- Parades and processions (4)
- Portrait prints (4)
- Children (3)
- Costumes (3)
- Dance (3)
- Ethnic costume (3)
- Ethnographic photographs (3)
- Festivals (3)
- Footbinding (3)
- Hair ornaments (3)
- Household employees (3)
- Illuminations (3)
- Mountains (3)
- Recreation (3)
- Rugs (3)
- Tents (3)
- Allegory (2)
- Caucasus (2)
- Couples (2)
- Deformities, Artificial (2)
- Families (2)
- Flags (2)
- Gardens (2)
- Georgians (2)
- Girls (2)
- Headdresses (2)
- Horseback riding (2)
- Hutsuls (2)
- Jewelry (2)
- Kings and rulers (2)
- Manners and customs (2)
- Merchants (2)
- Pageants (2)
- Portrait paintings (2)
- Shields (2)
- Soldiers in art (2)
- Visitors, foreign (2)
- Yurts (2)
- Advertising (1)
- Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria, 1528-1579 (1)
- Armenians (1)
- Ashanti (African people) (1)
- Attractions (1)
- Bags (1)
- Ballerinas (1)
- Baptism (1)
- Bashkir (Turkic people) (1)
- Beadwork, Seminole (1)
- Boats (1)
- Body-marking (1)
- Camels (1)
- Christians (1)
- Chromolithographs (1)
- Cities and towns (1)
- City and town life (1)
- Crowds (1)
- Dinners and dining (1)
- Display of merchandise (1)
- Drum (1)
- Earthquakes (1)
- Fans (1)
- Flowers (1)
- Folklife (1)
- French (1)
- Generals (1)
- Hairdressing (1)
- Hat trade (1)
- Hats (1)
- Headgear (1)
- Holy Roman Empire (1)
- Indians of North America (1)
- Knights and knighthood (1)
- Kyrgyz (1)
- Lady's maids (1)
- Lithographs (1)
- Log buildings (1)
- Mannequins (1)
- Maori (New Zealand people) (1)
- Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor, 1459-1519 (1)
- Mielich, Hans, 1516-1573 (1)
- Monks (1)
- Music (1)
- Muslim women (1)
- Mythology, Greek (1)
- Oakford, Charles (1)
- Parks (1)
Type of Item
- Prints, Photographs (74)
- Manuscripts (5)
Language
- Japanese (10)
- German (5)
- English (5)
- Russian (3)
- Czech (2)
- Ottoman Turkish (1500-1928) (2)
- French (1)
- Hungarian (1)
- Latin (1)
- Norwegian (1)
- Portuguese (1)
Institution
- Library of Congress (42)
- National Library of Brazil (18)
- Bavarian State Library (5)
- Columbus Memorial Library, Organization of American States (4)
- Brown University Library (3)
- The Library Company of Philadelphia (2)
- National Parliamentary Library of Ukraine (2)
- State Library and Archives of Florida (2)
- Abu Dhabi Authority for Culture and Heritage (1)
79 results
|
|
Hutsul Women
This image is part of an album probably published in about 1920 that contains 20 photographs of scenes in Carpathian Ruthenia, a mountainous region, most of which was part of the Austria-Hungary before World War I, but which became part of the new Czechoslovak state in 1919. Today the largest portion of it forms Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine, with smaller parts in Slovakia and Poland. This image shows a group of Hutsul women with a child. The Hutsuls are an ethnic and cultural group who speak a dialect of ...
|
|
|
Hutsul Men
This image is part of an album probably published in about 1920 that contains 20 photographs of scenes in Carpathian Ruthenia, a mountainous region, most of which was part of the Austria-Hungary before World War I, but which became part of the new Czechoslovak state in 1919. Today the largest portion of it forms Zakarpattia Oblast in western Ukraine, with smaller parts in Slovakia and Poland. This image shows a group of Hutsul men. The Hutsuls are an ethnic and cultural group who speak a dialect of Ukrainian, influenced by ...
|
|
|
Two Jewish Women Standing, Facing Each Other, in Tunisia
This photograph taken in early 20th-century Tunisia is from the Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection at the Library of Congress. Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924) was an American writer of books on travel and world geography whose works helped to popularize cultural anthropology and geography in the United States in the early years of the 20th century. Consisting of photographs taken and gathered by Carpenter and his daughter Frances (1890-1972) to illustrate his writings, the collection includes an estimated 16,800 photographs and 7,000 glass and film negatives. This photograph ...
|
|
|
A Street Vendor from Bahia
The Thereza Christina Maria collection is composed of 21,742 photos assembled by Emperor Pedro II (1825-91) throughout his life and donated by him to the National Library of Brazil. The collection covers a wide variety of subjects. It documents the achievements of Brazil and Brazilians in the 19th century and also includes many photographs of Europe, Africa, and North America. In 1862, the government of Spain under Queen Isabella II sent a team of naturalists to South America to collect objects for Spanish museums. The endeavor was known as ...
|
|
|
Portrait of a Gentleman in a Simple Silk Cross-Over Gown and Silk Skull-Cap. Hubei Province, China, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Feet of Women after Traditional Footbinding. Shanghai, China, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
A Notable Woman with Her Servant. Beijing, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
A Nanny or Servant from a Rich Household, in a Cotton Gown over Trousers, with Traditional Lotus (Bound) Feet. China, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Group of Men at Dinner. Shanghai, China, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Two Chahar Women in Festive Dresses. Inner Mongolia, China, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Alashan Mongols in Everyday Dress. Inner Mongolia, China, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Hami Muslim Woman. Xinjiang, China, 1875
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
One of the Wives of Notable Man Mr. Yan Seated in Their Private Home Garden. Beijing, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
One of the Wives of Notable Man Mr. Yan Seated in Their Private Home Garden. Beijing, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Woman with Traditional Lotus (Bound) Feet Seated with Fan. China, 1874-75
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Son of an Alashan Prince, a Mongol Turned Chinese. Beijing, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Albazin Youth. Albazin Prisoners of War Professed the Orthodox Religion but Adopted Chinese Language and Customs after Capture by Manchurians in 1685. Beijing, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Albazin Child. Albazin Prisoners of War Professed the Orthodox Religion but Adopted Chinese Language and Customs after Captured by Manchurians in 1685. Beijing, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Chola Woman, Full-Length Portrait, Standing, Facing Right, La Paz, Bolivia
This photograph of a Bolivian woman is from the Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection at the Library of Congress. Frank G. Carpenter (1855-1924) was an American writer of books on travel and world geography whose works helped to popularize cultural anthropology and geography in the United States in the early years of the 20th century. Consisting of photographs taken and gathered by Carpenter and his daughter Frances (1890-1972) to illustrate his writings, the collection includes an estimated 16,800 photographs and 7,000 glass and film negatives. Max T. Vargas ...
|
|
|
Servant Carrying a Container. China, 1874-75
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
|
|
Son of an Alashan Prince, a Telling Example of a Mongol Turned Chinese. Beijing, 1874
In 1874-75, the Russian government sent a research and trading mission to China to seek out new overland routes to the Chinese market, report on prospects for increased commerce and locations for consulates and factories, and gather information about the Dungan Revolt then raging in parts of western China. Led by Lieutenant Colonel Iulian A. Sosnovskii of the army General Staff, the nine-man mission included a topographer, Captain Matusovskii; a scientific officer, Dr. Pavel Iakovlevich Piasetskii; Chinese and Russian interpreters; three non-commissioned Cossack soldiers; and the mission photographer, Adolf Erazmovich ...
|
