Chinese National Day. Tien An Men parade 1954. National Day, October 1- here in Pecking’s Tien An Men Square, Chairman Mao Tse-tung reviews the marching columns of the paraders. Source:… Read More
Tien An Men parade. Chinese National Day 1954.
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Dutch noble woman in the 15th century.
Dutch noble woman in the 15th century. Dutch noble women in the Burgundian fashion of the 15th century. Source: Ons voorgeslacht in zijn dagelyksch leven geschilderd. Willem Jacobs Hofdijk. Haarlem… Read More
Bukyan. An Ida or Brahmin of Bali.
Bukyan.
Chief Sereedoghee at Rangoon, Burma.
A Chief Sereedoghee at the Court of Amarapoorah, Rangoon, Burma.
Renaissance Helmet of Alfonso Piccololomini di Firenze.
Renaissance Helmet of Alfonso Piccololomini di Firenze.
A Trooper at the Court of Amarapoorah. Burma.
A Trooper at the Court of Amarapoorah.
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
Ivory fan in the form of a deck of cards, vernis Martin. Watteau style.
Ivory fan in the form of a deck of cards, vernis Martin. Watteau theme: a party in a palace, where Pierrot and Colombine dance.
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