Laundress from around Lisbon. She represents a washerwoman from the outskirts of Lisbon who takes the clothes to be washed.
Laundress from around Lisbon, Portugal. Musée cosmopolite.
The Abbot and Monks of Kushan Monastery about 1870.
The similarity between the Buddhist faith and the Roman Catholic churches may be traced even more minutely than this. “Buddhists everywhere have their monasteries and nunneries, their baptism, celibacy and tonsure, their rosaries, chaplets, relics, and charms, their fast-days and processions, their confessions, mass, requiems, and litanies, and, especially in Tibet, even their cardinals, and their pope.”
Old bridge in Chao-Chow-Fu, Guangdong, China.
Guangji Bridge (Chaozhou). Kwangtung province, China.
Vampires and Vampirism. Living Vampires. History of Vampires.
THERE is, however, the living vampire, distinct and separate from the dead species.
Chinese Pagoda, Kwangtung Province, on the right bank of the Han river.
The one shown here stands on the right bank of the Han river, near Chao-chow-fu, and, like all the best examples of such edifices, the whole ground structure up to the first story is composed of stone.
Antique Peasant Jewellery from Jaipur, Rajasthan.
Antique Jewellery from the Jaipur Museum in Rajasthan. Charms, Necklace, Anklet worn by Young Children, Girls, Women and Men. Foot Ornament worn by Women from Gujarat.
Musician of the Bateke tribe representing a orchestral group.
From a photograph taken among the Bateke tribe, Central Africa, representing a orchestral group.
Macao in 1834. The settlement of Chinese, British and Portuguese traders.
The occupation of Macao by a grant from the head of the celestial empire to the Portuguese, as a reward for their services against the pirates infesting the islands at the mouth of the Canton river, took place on or about the year 1586.
Portraits of five of the best known Mughal emperors of Delhi.
Although the portraits represent the most illustrious occupants of the Imperial throne, they have not been chosen mainly for that reason, but because in every case the person represented is wearing interesting examples of jewellery.
Indian Elephant Trapping produced at Murshidabad, India.
The beautiful elephant howdah, presented by His Highness the Nawab Nazim of Murshidabad to her Majesty the Queen of England.