A Trooper at the Court of Amarapoorah.
Category: 19th Century
Ruins about the Taj Mahal, Agra.
The pleasure-grounds belonging to the Taj Mahal are watered daily during the dry season; and they are clothed in perpetual verdure, while the surrounding country is a wilderness.
Whonghee. Female slave attendants. Burma.
A Whonghee or First Minister’s wife in her Hackery with female slave attendants.
Iceland wedding dress. Iceland bride 1809.
Iceland wedding dress 1809 Source: Journal of a tour in Iceland in the summer of 1809 by Sir William Jackson Hooker. Published by Longman London, Yarmouth 1813. Above picture: Different… Read More
Italian Marine Band of Chicago 1893.
Italian Marine Band of Chicago which played at the World’s Columbian Exposition during the Fair season
Greenland Inuit. Ervick, a native of Prince Regents Bay.
Greenland Inuit.
Mormon’s attempt to rise the dead.
Mormon’s attempt to rise the dead.
King of Saudi Arabia. Sheikh Abdallah I. Ibn Saud.
Sheikh Abdallah I. ibn Saud (1740-1818) from the House of Saud, ruled the First Saudi State and was Imam of the Wahhabi
Dahohman Army. An Amazon. Benin Africa 19th. c.
Seh-Dong-Hong-Beh. An Amazon in the Dahohman Army. From the 17th to the late 19th century Dahomey had women regiments in the army.
A Chinaman. Chinese Mandarin and the dog as a sign of dignity.
The dog is a sign of dignity both in China and Siam. It appears at the portrait VAN TA GIN in Barrow’s Travels in China wears on his breast.