The original inhabitants of Tierra del Fuego, the Yamana or Yaghan, Haush, Selk’nam and Kawesqar people, almost completely exterminated by white settlers during the colonization.
Category: 19th Century
Mexican street scene in 1863.
Mexican street scene in 1863. Costumes of different ethnicities.
Caribbean Milk seller from Guadeloupe
Milk seller from Guadeloupe. Milk seller from Guadeloupe. A West Indian inhabitant. Cruising among the Caribbees, summer days in winter months (1895) by Charles Augustus Stoddard. (Free eBook)
Polar Eskimos. Community house. Greenland.
Polar Eskimos 1820.
Turbans and other headdresses of Egyptian men.
Full Peoples Gallery in images of all nations by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche, 1840.
Assembly of the Native Americans in Florida to war.
Assembly of the Native Americans in Florida to war. Squaws from Florida lament their men killed in the war.
Residents of Norton Sound of the Bering Sea, Alaska.
Inhabitants of Norton Sound of the Bering Sea, Alaska. From “Full Peoples Gallery in images of all nations” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche, Meissen, 1840.
Algerian women in their house-clothes, 19th century.
Algerian women in their house-clothes Source: “Full Peoples Gallery in images of all nations” by Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche, Meissen, 1840. Friedrich Wilhelm Goedsche (1785 -1863) was a German bookseller, publisher… Read More
Arab caravan in the Sahara desert in a Simoom storm.
Simoom, Arabic: سموم‎ samūm, is the local term for a sand storm in the North African-Arab region.
African people of South Africa, Nigeria, Sierra Leone.
Headdresses of African people of South Africa, Nigeria, Sierra Leone. Man of Kashna, South Africa – Woman of Jacoba, South Africa – Woman of Liessi, South Africa – Man from… Read More