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LL/74565
Warren Thompson
[Self-portrait as an Arab]
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, stereo
 
George Eastman Museum
Gift of Eastman Kodak Company, ex-collection Gabriel Cromer, 1970.0011.0004
 
LL/74565

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LL/119423
Unidentified photographer (French)
A Lady in Oriental Dress
1855 (ca)
Daguerreotype, stereo
 
Private collection of Eric Bos Waaldijk
 
LL/119423

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LL/126090
Furne fils & Tournier
No. 7 [Untitled]
[Sujets d'Orient]
n.d.
Stereoview
 
The Jeffrey Kraus Collection
 
LL/126090

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LL/6936
Portrait of black woman holding white child
1860 (ca)
Ambrotype
6.9 x 5.6 cm; 1/6 plate
 
George Eastman Museum
Courtesy of George Eastman House, Gift of Mr. Donald Weber (95:2687:0001)
 
LL/6936

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LL/35979
Sherman (Brooklyn, NY)
White child with colored nanny
1860s (ca)
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Laddy Kite
 
LL/35979

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LL/122413
Hooper & Western
An Indian Aiya with a white child
n.d.
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Martin Last
 
LL/122413

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LL/31363
Juan de la Cruz Palomino (Concepcion)
[Araukaner, Mapuche, Chile]
n.d.
Photograph, on card
10,5 x 6,3 cm
 
Ethnologisches Museum: Staatliche Museen zu Berlin / Ethnological Museum of Berlin)
Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Ident. Nr: (?), Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 DE)
 
LL/31363

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LL/58273
Nadar
Deux membres de l'ambassade du Japon en compagnie d'un officier français. Paris
1864
Albumen print, from glass negative
26.5 x 18.7 cm
 
Pierre Bergé & Associés
Une histoire particulière de la photographie Collection de Monsieur et Madame X, 19 March 2015, Lot: 245
 
LL/58273 [Further details available]

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LL/61300
Unidentified photographer
Kinzo Ohashi, New York Lady, Kinjiro Yoshikawa, Yasuroemon Gomi the first Japanese embassy to the United States
1860
Albumen print, hand-painted
 
JCII Camera Museum / Japan Camera Industry Institute
 
LL/61300 [Further details available]

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LL/46149
Unidentified photographer
[Westerner overseeing Japanese man with books]
1860-1900
Carte de visite
 
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan, 1860 - ca. 1900, Local Number: R474 (Rosin Number)
 
LL/46149

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LL/73654
K. J. Yamamura (Yokohama)
Two Westerners in Japanese dress performing a staged tea ceremony
1880s (ca)
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of John Toohey
 
LL/73654

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LL/48777
Antonio Shindler
Keokuk Jr. and his son Charles
1868 (ca)
Photographic print
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-05082 (digital file from original), Call Number: LOT 12894 [item] [P&P]
 
LL/48777 [Further details available]

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LL/88838
Unidentified photographer
[John Pelcher, Homme Connu et un gardien]
[Indiens d'Amérique du Nord - anthropological collections of Prince R. Bonaparte]
1888
Albumen print
 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
Département Société de Géographie, SGE SG WF-348, Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b67004030, 0 of 21
 
LL/88838 [Further details available]

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LL/78069
Baron Raimund von Stillfried
[Studio Portrait of a Japanese Man in Western Clothing]
1880s
Cabinet card, with applied colouring
14.2 x 9.7 cm (5 9/16 x 3 13/16 ins) Mount: 16.6 x 10.9 cm (6 9/16 x 4 5/16 ins)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gift of Sue Cassidy Clark, in honor of Dr. Barbara Brennen Ford, 2006, Accession Number: 2006.525.1
 
LL/78069

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LL/54626
Milton Miller [Attributed to]
Portrait of a Chinese woman in traditional dress
1860s
Albumen print
19,5 x 14 cm (ca)
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 4 June 2014, 19th-21st Century Photography, Lot: 4031
 
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LL/54627
Milton Miller [Attributed to]
Portrait of a Chinese woman in French costume
1860s
Albumen print
19,5 x 14 cm (ca)
 
Bassenge Photography Auctions
Auction 4 June 2014, 19th-21st Century Photography, Lot: 4031
 
LL/54627

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LL/46160
Nihon Shashinkai (Japan Photographic Association)
Little girl on a chair
1860-1900
Carte de visite
 
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan, 1860 - ca. 1900, Local Number: R489 (Rosin Number)
 
LL/46160

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LL/73963
Unidentified photographer (india)
Two Western children with an Indian servant
n.d.
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Carl Mautz
 
LL/73963 [Further details available]

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LL/73969
Shapurjee Hormusjee and Co
Portrait of two Indian servants with a Western child in a pushchair
n.d.
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Carl Mautz
 
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LL/7533
Robert Hotz
Indian Ayah with two children and their mother
1897, May
Cabinet card
 
Pierre Spake Fine Art
Pierre Spake Fine Art [8491]
 
LL/7533

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LL/46155
Sudzuki Toocoku
Japanese house with porch, rickshaw, and western people
1860-1900
Carte de visite
 
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Henry and Nancy Rosin Collection of Early Photography of Japan, 1860 - ca. 1900, Local Number: R500 (Rosin Number)
 
LL/46155

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LL/36368
A. Kit (Haiphong, Vietnam)
European lady posed in Vietnamese clothing
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs
 
LL/36368

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LL/36371
A. Kit (Haiphong, Vietnam) [Attributed to]
European man posed in Vietnamese clothing
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs
 
LL/36371 [Further details available]

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LL/86610
Pun Lun
Studio portrait of six Western Men in Oriental clothing
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Graham Pilecki
 
LL/86610

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LL/39744
Batchelder Studios
Portrait of G. W. Rusden dressed as an Aboriginal Australian
1880 (ca)
Carte de visite
 
National Library of Australia
nla.pic-vn4223009
 
LL/39744 [Further details available]

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LL/104492
Durand (Lyon)
Émile Guimet, industrialist and founder of Musée Guimet in Paris
1865 (ca)
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Laure Deratte
 
LL/104492 [Further details available]

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LL/104493
Henri Douillot (Neuchatel)
Henri Douillot, Swiss photographer
1865 (ca)
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Laure Deratte
 
LL/104493

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LL/104494
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
Henri de Lutteroth
1861 (ca)
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Laure Deratte
 
LL/104494

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LL/104495
Charles-Albert Arnoux Bertall
Unknown sitter
1865 (ca)
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Laure Deratte
 
LL/104495

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LL/104496
Unidentified photographer
Baron Lynde de Turckheim
1865 (ca)
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Laure Deratte
 
LL/104496

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LL/104499
Tamemasa
Russian children. Yingkou City, Manchuria, China
1901
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104499

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LL/104500
Snipes Studio (Pelzer, South Carolina)
Three white children, with bicyles, flags and Native American style clothing
1915, 16 April
Real photo postcard
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104500

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LL/104481
Smolin & Co. studio (Vologda, Russia)
Studio portrait of a man in "malitsa," the fur clothing of the aborigines of Siberia
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104481 [Further details available]

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LL/104482
Valdman (Penza, Russia)
Studio portrait of three children in "malitsa," the fur clothing of the aborigines of Siberia
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104482 [Further details available]

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LL/104483
Leitzinger (Arkhangelsk, Russia)
Studio portrait of two children in "malitsa," the fur clothing of the aborigines of Siberia
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104483 [Further details available]

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LL/58573
Antione Sevruguin
Studio Portrait: Western Man
1880-1930
Glass negative
12.7 x 17.8 cm
 
Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives
Myron Bement Smith Collection: Antoin Sevruguin Photographs. Gift of Katherine Dennis Smith, 1973-1985, Local number: FSA A.4 2.12.GN.51.01
 
LL/58573 [Further details available]

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LL/40268
Francis Frith
Portrait, Turkish summer costume
1857
Albumen print
18 x 14 cm (oval, image) 44 x 31 cm (mount)
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Courtesy of The New York Public Library www.nypl.org, Image ID: 76293
 
LL/40268

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LL/71788
Francis Frith
Self-Portrait in Turkish Summer Costume
1857
Albumen silver print
7 1/8 x 5 5/8 ins (18.1 x 14.3 cm) (image and sheet, oval)
 
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Gift of Theodore T. Newbold and Helen Cunningham, 2010, Accession Number: 2010-3-2
 
LL/71788

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LL/119708
Jacques Galitzenstein (Cairo, Egypt)
Man posing in Ottoman dress with a negro attendant
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Marc De Clercq
 
LL/119708

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LL/119373
Unidentified photographer
King Otto I of Greece during his exile in Bavaria
1865
Photograph
 
Creative Commons - Wikipedia
Source requested.
 
LL/119373

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LL/119393
Notman & Sandham
C. Holland in costume, Montreal, QC
1880
Silver salts on paper mounted on paper - Albumen process
 
McCord Stewart Museum
Purchase from Associated Screen News Ltd., II-54728.1
 
LL/119393

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LL/48517
Dornac
Pierre Loti, écrivain (1850-1923), dans sa maison de Rochefort
[Nos contemporains chez eux]
1892, 11 March
Albumen print
12.5 x 17.5 cm
 
Gros & Delettrez
Books, Manuscripts - Orientalist Photographs, 19 June 2012, Lot: 203
 
LL/48517

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LL/107289
Stromeyer & Heymann
Gaston Maspero
n.d.
Card mounted photograph
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Pinterest
 
LL/107289

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LL/40230
Frederick H. Evans
F. H(olland) Day in Algerian costume
1901
Platinum print
23.9 x 12.1 cm
 
George Eastman Museum
Museum Purchase, ex-collection Gordon Conn, GEH NEGS: 21423 8884
 
LL/40230

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LL/65714
Khalil Raad
Studio portrait of five tourists in Middle Eastern clothing
n.d.
Photograph
6.5 x 9.75 ins (approx.)
 
Private collection of Jerilyn Marshall
 
LL/65714

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LL/102578
John Horsburgh
John Horsburgh (?)
n.d.
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Steven Evans
 
LL/102578

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LL/66429
Charles Nègre
Self portrait of Charles Nègre in a Middle Eastern costume [Autoportrait, dans la cour du 21 Quai de Bourbon]
1853 (ca)
Albumen print, from glass negative
16.2 x 11.8 cm
 
Alain Paviot
Ex-inventory
 
LL/66429

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LL/119368
Alinari
The painter, Francesco Gioli, in Turkish costume
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Collection of Michael G. Jacob
 
LL/119368

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LL/119370
LeLieure
Man in Arab Costume [Probably for a carnival ball]
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Collection of Michael G. Jacob
 
LL/119370

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LL/119189
Unidentified photographer (Egypt)
W. W. Ogilvie and an Egyptian, in local costume, Alexandria, Egypt
1865 (ca)
Silver salts on paper - Albumen process
8.5 x 5.6 cm
 
McCord Stewart Museum
Gift of Mrs. Margaret Brown, MP-1981.11.2.63
 
LL/119189 [Further details available]

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LL/41815
Roger Fenton
Pasha and Bayadere
1858
Albumen print
 
National Science and Media Museum
 
LL/41815 [Further details available]

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LL/29687
Lai Afong
Western man in Hong Kong in Chinese costume
1885 (ca)
Albumen print, in original lacquer frame
14.6 x 9.52 cm
 
National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
 
LL/29687 [Further details available]

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LL/96447
Unidentified photographer
Mrs. Bishop In Manchu Dress.
1899
Illustration
 
NYPL - New York Public Library
Wallach Division Picture Collection, NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b17567214
 
LL/96447

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LL/61918
Mee Cheung (Hong Kong)
A Caucasian dressed as a Chinese Mandarin
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Kevin Yee
 
LL/61918

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LL/61920
Pun Lun (Singapore)
A Caucasian dressed as an Asian
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Provided by Kevin Yee (18 October 2015)
 
LL/61920

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LL/45716
Nadar
Self-Portrait in Indian Costume,
1863 (ca)
Albumen print
6 3/16 x 4 1/16 ins (15.72 x 10.32 cm)
 
LACMA: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection (AC1992.197.97)
 
LL/45716

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LL/117119
Churchill & Denison
Indian Wigwam Booth Group, Army Relief Fair, Albany, New York
1864
Albumen print
5 1/2 × 7 1/2 in. (14 × 19.1 cm) (image)
 
Chrysler Museum of Art
Gift of David L. Hack and Museum purchase, with funds from Walter P. Chrysler, Jr., by exchange, Object number: 98.32.217
 
LL/117119

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LL/104523
Charles Johan Bergamasco
A studio portrait of a standing man in Native American (?) costume
1865-1867
Carte de visite
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104523 [Further details available]

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LL/43656
Hill & Adamson
Lane and Peddie as Afghans
1843
Salted paper print
8 1/8 x 5 5/8 ins
 
J. Paul Getty Museum
84.XM.131.9
 
LL/43656

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LL/36292
Hill & Adamson
Mr Lane in Indian Dress
1843-1847
Calotype
18.5 x 13.2 cm
 
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum number: 3127-1955
 
LL/36292 [Further details available]

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LL/29689
Kusakabe Kimbei
Portrait of a young Japanese couple in western clothes
1890 (ca)
Albumen print, colour dyes
24.0 x 19.1 cm (image) 30.3 x 36.5 cm (album page)
 
National Gallery of Australia (NGA)
 
LL/29689 [Further details available]

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LL/53121
Unidentified photographer
[Portrait of a Japanese man in Western clothing]
1870 (ca)
Albumen print
 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Peabody Number: 2003.1.2223.408
 
LL/53121

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LL/73781
Adolfo Farsari
Untitled (full length portrait of man in top hat and tails)
1872-1887 (ca)
Albumen print, hand-coloured, on album page
 
Harvard Art Museum / Fogg Museum
© President and Fellows of Harvard College, Object Number: 2007.219.3
 
LL/73781

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LL/43182
Baron Raimund von Stillfried
Japanese diner and waiter in Western dress
1870s
Albumen print, hand-coloured
24.3 x 19.5 cm
 
Ken & Jenny Jacobson
 
LL/43182

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LL/89262
Baron Raimund von Stillfried
[Deux hommes à l' heure du repas] / [Raimund von Stillfried]
[Japonais, 2]
1877-1878 (album)
Albumen print, hand-coloured
 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
Département Société de Géographie, SG WD-232 (RES), Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b10500749c, 14 of 91
 
LL/89262

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LL/89265
Baron Raimund von Stillfried
[Homme debout en frac et haut-de-forme]
[Japonais, 2]
1875 (taken) 1877-1878 (album)
Albumen print, hand-coloured
 
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Département des Estampes et de la Photographie
Département Société de Géographie, SG WD-232 (RES), Identifier: ark:/12148/btv1b10500749c, 17 of 91
 
LL/89265

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LL/40593
Crewes (Cape Town)
Cetywayo. Taken at Oude-Moulen S.A.
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of John Toohey
 
LL/40593

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LL/91961
Chas Eisenmann
Zulu Warriors, Princess & child.
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
The Jeffrey Kraus Collection
 
LL/91961

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LL/19533
J.W. Newland
Portrait of a Bengali in European dress (Portrait d'une bengalie habillée à l'européenne)
1850-1857
Daguerreotype
8.5 x 7.2 cm
 
Artcurial
courtesy of Artcurial (Sale 1170, Lot 140)
 
LL/19533

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LL/101595
J.W. Newland
Portrait of a Girl, Calcutta
1850-1857
Daguerreotype
 
Science Museum
Accession / inventory no. requested.
 
LL/101595

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LL/12163
Unidentified photographer
A "Christian kafir" in Natal
1870s-1880s
Albumen print
5.6 x 4 in (143 mm x 102 mm)
 
Paul Frecker
 
LL/12163 [Further details available]

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LL/73611
Unidentified photographer
G.K. [i.e., George Kennan] in Siberian exile dress, each piece given by an exile from the dress he had worn
1880-1890
Photographic print
 
Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Library of Congress Control Number: 99615539, Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-71117 (b&w film copy neg.)
 
LL/73611 [Further details available]

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LL/53119
John N. Choate
Omaha Girls at Carlisle School, PA
n.d.
Albumen print
 
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Peabody Number: 2004.29.5870
 
LL/53119 [Further details available]

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LL/40100
Angerer [Attributed to]
Proclamation of the British Protectorate at Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea
1884
Albumen print
 
Cambridge University Library, Royal Commonwealth Society
© Cambridge University Library, RCS Y3084A/37
 
LL/40100

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LL/91455
Carl Ehlers
[White man fighting an Australian aborigine]
1880s
Albumen print
 
Grafton Museum
 
LL/91455 [Further details available]

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LL/16238
Colombo Apothecaries & Co.
H.I. & R.H. the Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Dead Elephant
1880-1895
Albumen print
 
Palinda Stephen de Silva Collection
 
LL/16238 [Further details available]

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LL/122334
Willoughby Wallace Hooper
Elephant Hunting, India
1865 (ca)
Albumen print
7 x 9 in.
 
Archive Farms
The Patrick Montgomery Collection, Object No. 2017.743
 
LL/122334

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LL/84528
Eduard Hodek jun. (1858 verm. Wien - 1929 Altenberg (St. Andrä-Wördern, NÖ))
Siriska, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the first tiger
1893, 24 February
Photograph
 
Weltmuseum Wien
Nr. 14702, Fotosammlung
 
LL/84528

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LL/40130
Unidentified photographer
Tiger shoot, showing the Prince of Wales, Singhpur, Madhya Pradesh, India
1906
Photographic print
 
Cambridge University Library, Royal Commonwealth Society
© Cambridge University Library, RCS QM 7/41
 
LL/40130

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LL/7398
Leslie Hamilton Wilson
The Tiger. H.H. Guests and beaters
1926
Platinum print
15.40 x 20.60 cm
 
National Galleries of Scotland
Courtesy of the National Galleries of Scotland, Purchased 1998 (PGP 236.160)
 
LL/7398

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LL/13841
Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud
Our Colonial Troops: Senegal, Guadaloupe, Soudan, Algeria, Morocco, Madagascar
[1914-1919 La Guerre, 150 planches artistiques de la collection personnelle du Commandant Tournassoud, Ex-Directeur du Service Photographique et Cinematographique de Guerre. Pl. 76]
n.d.
 
Private collection of Nadia Valla
 
LL/13841

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LL/40140
Sir Walter Buchanan Smith (1879-1944, Knight and colonial administrator)
African recruits being sworn in during the First World War, [now Tanzania]
1914-1918
Photographic print
 
Cambridge University Library, Royal Commonwealth Society
© Cambridge University Library, RCS Y30469D/59
 
LL/40140

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LL/24110
Herzog & Higgins
The Begum of Bhophal and Lord Minto, Viceroy of India
1905 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
200 x 290 mm
 
Bonhams - London
Courtesy of Bonhams, London (Sale 15313 - India and Beyond in Books and Photography, Lot 279 - 26 Oct 2007)
 
LL/24110 [Further details available]

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LL/40417
Oscar Jean-Baptiste Mallitte
[Lady Canning]
[Lord and Lady Canning Family Album]
1858-1861
Albumen silver print
16 x 19.7 cm (6 5/16 x 7 3/4 ins) (image) 33.1 x 26 cm (13 1/16 x 10 1/4 ins) (mount)
 
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Gilman Collection, Purchase, Cynthia Hazen Polsky Gift, 2005, Accession Number: 2005.100.491.1 (52)
 
LL/40417

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LL/105354
Unidentified photographer
White children, Indian carers
1900 (ca)
Lantern slide
 
Private collection of James Morley
 
LL/105354 [Further details available]

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LL/92473
Unidentified photographer
[Eduard Toda i Güell dressed as a mummy photographed at the Musée de Boulaq]
1886
Albumen print
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Bibliothèque de l’Institut, Fonds Maspero, © RMN-Grand Palais (Institut de France) / Gérard Blot.
 
LL/92473

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LL/53504
Stromeyer & Heymann
Mummified Alive
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Fr. Gregor
 
LL/53504

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LL/74265
I. Heyman [Attributed to]
James Deering and Abby Deering Howe [Portrait of a man and a woman with a look-through mummy and statue]
1900-1920
Photograph
 
Vizcaya Museum and Gardens
 
LL/74265 [Further details available]

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LL/107178
I. Heyman
A Sphinx head-through-the-hole portrait
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/107178

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LL/77921
G. Lékégian
Studio portrait of a man with a head-through-the-hole foreground prop of a mummy case
1906 (postmark)
Postcard
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/77921

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LL/66993
I. Heyman
Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
1895
Photograph
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Location uncertain: Probably the Erzherzog Franz Ferdinand Museum
 
LL/66993

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LL/74264
Unidentified photographer
The newest thing in freak photography: sitters posing for their portraits in spinxes and a mummy-case, in Egypt
1908 (published)
Magazine illustration
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Posted to Facebook, "The Vintage Photo Booth" (28 March 2017) by Mavis Purdy.
 
LL/74264 [Further details available]

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LL/74266
Unidentified photographer
The newest thing in freak photography: sitters posing for their portraits in sphinxes and a mummy-case, in Egypt
1908 (published)
Magazine illustration
 
Internet - Original source ill-defined
Posted to Facebook, "The Vintage Photo Booth" (28 March 2017) by Mavis Purdy.
 
LL/74266 [Further details available]

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LL/74260
Unidentified photographer
Reverend S Tomlinson and staff [Anglicans, Torres Straits, New Guinea / Australia]
1900-1930 (ca)
Glass slide
 
Private collection of John Toohey
 
LL/74260 [Further details available]

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LL/74369
Albert Percy Godber
Two unidentified European women (Pakeha) in a display of Maori cloaks, weapons, implements, and wooden carved figures.
1900 (ca)
Dry plate negative
4.75 x 6.5 ins
 
National Library of New Zealand
Ref: APG-0097-1/2-G
 
LL/74369

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LL/96506
Unidentified photographer
Dr Theodore Leighton Pennell (1867-1912), medical missionary in Pathan dress
1900-1912 (approx.)
Photograph, hand-coloured
 
Cambridge University Library, Royal Commonwealth Society
CMS 34/57
 
LL/96506

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LL/96505
Unidentified photographer
Parsee School
1928
Photograph, hand-coloured
 
Cambridge University Library, Royal Commonwealth Society
CMS 33/28
 
LL/96505

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LL/104510
Unidentified photographer (Spain)
"Recuerdo de Granada" - A couple posing before a background showing the Court of the Lions (Patio de los Leones) at the Alhambra, Granada
1930s-1940s
Real photo postcard
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104510

98 of 123
LL/106221
Unidentified photographer (Spain)
A woman posing before a background showing the Court of the Lions (Patio de los Leones) at the Alhambra, Granada
1930s-1940s
Photograph
 
Private collection of Rod Selva
 
LL/106221

99 of 123
LL/104527
André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri
Studio portrait of actress and mime Aline
n.d.
Carte de visite
 
Bazar Nadar / Wouter Lambrechts
 
LL/104527 [Further details available]

100 of 123
LL/104519
Hans and Johann Khristin (Reval, now Tallinn, Estonia)
A Russian girl dressed in a Tajik robe.
n.d.
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104519

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LL/104511
Khudaibergen Devanov [Attributed to]
Konstantin Korytnikov, a Russian employee of the Khiva shipping company, dressed as a wealthy Khiva merchant, Urgench city. Khiva Khanate.
1911, August
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104511 [Further details available]

102 of 123
LL/104512
Khudaibergen Devanov [Attributed to]
Ekaterina Korytnikova, daughter of Konstantin Korytnikov, a Russian employee of the Khiva shipping company, Urgench city. Khiva Khanate.
1911, August
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104512 [Further details available]

103 of 123
LL/104516
Inagamjanov (Tashkent)
Russian couple in Uzbek clothes
1910
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104516 [Further details available]

104 of 123
LL/104517
Gadaev (Pyatigorsk, Russia)
Russian dressed as a Caucasian highlander
1880s
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104517

105 of 123
LL/104501
Unidentified photographer
Man in Native American clothing holding a light fixture
1910-1915
Real photo postcard
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104501

106 of 123
LL/104619
Notman & Sandham
Mr. Wright in "Indian" costume, Montreal, QC
1881
Silver salts on paper mounted on paper - Albumen process
14 x 10 cm
 
McCord Stewart Museum
Purchase from Associated Screen News Ltd., II-60307.1
 
LL/104619

107 of 123
LL/104620
William Notman
A. A. McCulloch costumed as an indian, Montreal, QC
1863
Silver salts on glass - Wet collodion process
12 x 10 cm
 
McCord Stewart Museum
Purchase from Associated Screen News Ltd., I-7180
 
LL/104620

108 of 123
LL/104521
Unidentified photographer
Four Eropean or american ladies in chinese costumes playing Mahjong.
1920-1940 (ca)
Gelatin silver print
 
Private collection of Wolfgang Wiggers
 
LL/104521

109 of 123
LL/104622
Wm. Notman & Son
Mr. McCulloch, costumed for Chateau de Ramezay Ball, Montreal, QC
1898
Silver salts on glass - Gelatin dry plate process
17x 12 cm
 
McCord Stewart Museum
Purchase from Associated Screen News Ltd., II-123125
 
LL/104622 [Further details available]

110 of 123
LL/104504
Unidentified photographer
A young woman in Native American clothing with a bow and arrow
1880 (ca)
Tintype, 1/2 plate
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104504

111 of 123
LL/104505
Unidentified photographer
A young woman in Native American clothing with a bow and arrow
1880 (ca)
Tintype, 1/2 plate
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104505

112 of 123
LL/104506
Unidentified photographer (USA)
Children enacting a Western scene
1907-1915 (ca)
Real photo postcard
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104506

113 of 123
LL/104502
Charles A. Lighty (1858-1935, Brookston, Indiana)
Two women in Japanese-style dress and hairstyles seated on the floor drinking tea.
1898 (ca)
Cabinet card
 
The Indiana Album Inc.
 
LL/104502 [Further details available]

114 of 123
LL/104503
Unidentified photographer
Two women in Japanese-style dress and hairstyles with a boy in Native American clothing
1905 (ca)
Real photo postcard
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104503

115 of 123
LL/104507
Unidentified photographer (France)
A head-through-the-hole portrait with an Oriental theme of four people
1920s-1930s
Real photo postcard
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104507

116 of 123
LL/104508
Unidentified photographer (France)
A head-through-the-hole portrait with an Oriental theme of five people
1920s-1930s
Real photo postcard
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104508

117 of 123
LL/104509
Unidentified photographer (France)
Excursion en Chine, Colonial Exposition, Paris
1931
Real photo postcard
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104509

118 of 123
LL/104513
Tyson & Son Studio (Wamego, Kansas)
["This picture is my pal with his humbug circus costume on, he was the giraffe tamer."]
1908, 14 October
Real photo postcard
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104513

119 of 123
LL/104514
Unidentified photographer (England)
"Lovely Grub" "One for the Port" - head-through-the-hole portrait
1950s
Arcade direct positive print
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104514

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LL/104515
Unidentified photographer (USA)
"Disneyland" - Six people with a cannibal theme
1959, November
Polaroid
 
Private collection of Christopher Steiner
 
LL/104515

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LL/104520
Ivan Dyagovchenko
Unknown European in a fancy ethnic costume.
1881 (or earlier)
Cabinet card
 
Private collection of Sergey Maximishin
 
LL/104520

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LL/104525
Fred W. Forbes (61 Seven Sisters Rd., N. London, England)
A young woman in a quasi Chinese costume
n.d.
Real photo postcard
 
Private collection of Jerilyn Marshall
 
LL/104525

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Contents - Themes & Fragments
1860-1880 - Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
Africa - Colonialism in Africa
African Americans - Introduction to photography by, and of, African Americans
African Americans - Roles and representation of African Americans in nineteenth century photography
Alternate personalities and questioning identity - Introduction to alternate personalities
Ambrotypes - Ambrotypes: Occupationals
Ambrotypes - Examples of ambrotypes
Anglo-Zulu War (1879) - Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
Animals - Elephants
Animals - Tigers
Anthropology and ethnology - Anthropology
Anthropology and ethnology - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
Anthropology and ethnology - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians
Anthropology and ethnology - Introduction to human zoos
Anthropology and ethnology - Prince Roland Napoléon Bonaparte: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte, Peaux Rouges (before 1884)
Art - Photographs that are stylistically similar to paintings
Australia - Introduction to photography in Australia
Backgrounds and foregrounds - Backgrounds: Incongruous
Backgrounds and foregrounds - Foregrounds
Backgrounds and foregrounds - Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds
Backgrounds and foregrounds - Mummies and Sphinxes as foreground props
Cabinet cards - Cabinet cards: Celebrities
Cabinet cards - Cabinet cards: Painted
Cabinet cards - Cabinet cards: Portraits
Cartes de visite - Cartes de visite: Occupations and roles
Cartes de visite - Introduction to cartes de visite portraits
Celebrities - Cabinet cards: Celebrities
Chairs and sofas - Props, accessories and novelties: Chairs
China - Lai Afong: Portraits
Colonialism - Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
Colonialism - Colonialism
Colonialism - Cultural intersections and appropriation
Colonialism - Introduction to human zoos
Colonialism - The clothing of colonialism
Colour - Introduction to hand-painted photographs
Columns, plinths and pedestals - Props, accessories and novelties: Columns, plinths and pedestals
Composition - Foregrounds
Composition - Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds
Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians
Daguerreotypes - Daguerreotypes: Portraits
Daguerreotypes - Stereo daguerreotypes
Education - School groups
Egypt - Introduction to photography in Egypt
Egypt - Mummies and Sphinxes as foreground props
Egypt - Studio portraits in Egypt
Ethnic and traditional costumes - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
Expeditions and exploration - Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
Fabricated realities - Backgrounds: Incongruous
Fabricated realities - Introduction to backgrounds and foregrounds
Fabricated realities - Introduction to fabricated realities
First World War (1914-1918) - Jean-Baptiste Tournassoud: 1914-1919 La Guerre
First World War (1914-1918) - Patriotism and enlisting
Gender - Roles and representation of African Americans in nineteenth century photography
Greece - Introduction to photography in Greece
Group portraits - Group portraits
Hand-painted photographs - Cabinet cards: Painted
Hand-painted photographs - Introduction to hand-painted photographs
India - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians
India - India and the carte de visite
India - Introduction to photography in India
India - Portrait: Royalty: The ruling class of the Indian subcontinent
Iran (Islamic Republic of) - Antione Sevruguin: Portraits
Japan - Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Japan: Portraits
Japan - External cultural influences in Japan
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Japan: Portraits
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Introduction to photography in Egypt
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Introduction to photography in India
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Native Americans
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Orientalism
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Portrait: Royalty: The ruling class of the Indian subcontinent
Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - Prince Roland Napoléon Bonaparte: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte, Peaux Rouges (before 1884)
Literature - Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
Native Americans - Indian delegations
Native Americans - Native Americans
Native Americans - Prince Roland Napoléon Bonaparte: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte, Peaux Rouges (before 1884)
Occupational - Ambrotypes: Occupationals
Occupational - Cartes de visite: Occupations and roles
Occupational - Occupationals of women
Occupations and roles - Cartes de visite: Occupations and roles
Orientalism - Mummies and Sphinxes as foreground props
Orientalism - Orientalism
Orientalism - Roger Fenton: Oriental series
Painting on photographs - Cabinet cards: Painted
Papua New Guinea - Introduction to Papua New Guinea
Patriotism - Flags
Peoples of the world - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic
Peoples of the world - Daguerreotypes: Ethnic: Indians
Peoples of the world - Introduction to human zoos
Peoples of the world - Russians
Photographing celebrities - Cabinet cards: Celebrities
Platinum prints - Frederick H. Evans: Platinum prints
Politicians - Indian delegations
Portrait - Cabinet cards: Celebrities
Portrait - Cabinet cards: Portraits
Portrait - Introduction to cartes de visite portraits
Portrait - Nadar: Portraits
Props - Introduction to studio properties, accessories and novelties
Props - Props, accessories and novelties: Chairs
Props - Props, accessories and novelties: Columns, plinths and pedestals
Props - Props, accessories and novelties: Tables
Real photo postcards - Real photo postcards
Real photo postcards - Real photo postcards
Royalty - Portrait: Royalty: The ruling class of the Indian subcontinent
Russia - Russians
Scientific - Anthropology
Singapore - Introduction to photography in Singapore
Social outsiders - Native Americans
South Africa - Anglo-Zulu War (1879)
South Africa - Introduction to photography in South Africa
Spain - Introduction to photography in Spain
Spain - Spain: Granada: Alhambra
Stereoviews, stereographs and stereocards - Stereo daguerreotypes
Tables - Props, accessories and novelties: Tables
Travel - Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872?
World's Fairs and International Exhibitions - Introduction to human zoos

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