British counter culture screen printed poster. 1970s. Measures 22 x 16 inches. Bold red text reads "well! well well?" Source believed to be a left-wing London print shop. Poster shows a small black child leaning over a slashed American flag with the words "Rule Brittania!" across it. The British anthem.....
British India photo archive following an unidentified man, likely a serviceman, in Mhow and Mandu during World War II, 1942-1943, preserving a localized record of colonial wartime life through mess scenes, sport, staff bungalows, named companions, imposed colonial social frameworks, and visits to the major Islamic monuments of Mandu. The.....
Colonial Indian labor photo archive depicting street work, informal commerce, transport labor, and social hierarchy under British rule, circa 1890s-1920s. British India depended on low-paid manual labor to move people, goods, food, and raw materials through cities, ports, hill stations, and military cantonments. The group contrasts workers seated on the.....
British Indian Army photo archive spanning both World Wars, depicting colonial recruitment, military training, the Indian Air Force, military ceremonies, and Burma-front service into the final decades of British rule in India, circa 1914–1945. The British Indian Army was the largest non-conscript force in history: roughly 1.3 million men were.....
An early Zionist cigarette card photo album during the British Mandate period documenting Jewish paramilitary forces, settlement defense, athletics, and infrastructure development in Mandatory Palestine, likely produced in the 1930s-1940s as an educational and propaganda tool. The images illustrate the development of defense forces, collective agricultural settlements, and youth training.....
Early views of life under British colonial rule in Mandatory Palestine. 1920s photo archive consisting of 12 silver gelatin photographs measuring around 3.5" x 2.5" each. Circa 1920s. An evocative and unusually varied visual archive from 1920s Mandatory Palestine, this collection captures everyday life and social hierarchies during the British.....
[Slavery & Abolition] This archive contains two British parliamentary acts addressing the suppression of the transatlantic slave trade. Both published in London by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode. The first document, “An Act to Continue an Act for Amending and Consolidating the Laws Relating to the Abolition of the Slave.....
India glass lantern slide archive documenting class hierarchy dichotomy in British India, with scenes of village labor, bazaar exchange, railway movement, industrialization, Sikhs, and colonial cavalry, circa 1900-20. Images clearly depict the class divid and Cast system; villagers and laborers are shown seated on bare ground in carpentry work, men.....
Davar Labour Daily, Tel Aviv. 1 July 1948. Hebrew-language newspaper. Complete issue of 4 large pages, measuring 17 × 23 inches, twice folded. This historically consequential issue of Davar documents the immediate aftermath of the end of the British Mandate in Palestine and the consolidation of Israeli sovereignty during the.....
Dubek Cigarettes photographic album of British Mandatory Palestine produced in the 1930s–1940s documents the development of Jewish agricultural settlements, industry, security organizations, and cultural institutions within the Yishuv during the late Mandate period. The album presents a visual narrative of Zionist nation building through images of collective agricultural labor, industrial.....
Photo album documenting a multi country group यात्रा in 1927 records interwar travel across southern Europe and the eastern Mediterranean, including regions under colonial administration and recent political transition. The album follows a group of travelers moving from France through Italy, Greece, Turkey, British administered Palestine, and Egypt, capturing urban.....
