American colonial Philippines photo archive documenting U.S. territorial governance as it operated through provincial schools, municipal ceremony, mission activity, and transport routes in local towns and river settlements, a direct record of how American political, educational, and social structures entered everyday life in the archipelago during the late territorial period.....

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.....

Unidentified photographers, two albumen photographs of Black laborers, circa 1890s to early 1900s, document agricultural and skilled work performed by African Americans in the decades following emancipation, when systems of sharecropping and tenant farming structured rural economies across the American South and parts of the Caribbean. These images provide visual.....

Ogier, M. L’Amerique Septentrionale and L’Amerique Meridionale, 1699, document European cartographic knowledge and imperial territorial claims in the Western Hemisphere at the end of the seventeenth century. Produced within the context of French and Spanish colonial expansion, the maps support research into early modern geography, imperial competition, and the transmission.....

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.....

Sudanese women, children, and men in village photo archive from the 1930s, when Sudan remained under Anglo-Egyptian rule, a colonial arrangement lasting from 1899 to 1956. Rural Sudan in this period was governed through “Native Administration,” introduced in the 1920s, which placed many local communities under chiefs and customary courts.....

Philippines photo archive documenting U.S. colonial schooling, missionary publication, women's civic activity, and the Filipino and Indigenous subjects in the American-ruled Philippines, circa 1900s–1924. The group centers on how colonialism operated through classrooms, teachers, mission networks, and printed image circulation rather than through military scenes alone. Missionary activity along with.....