Large missionary lantern slide archive documenting Protestant evangelical activity and African village life in West Africa during the early twentieth century, most plausibly within the Upper Guinea Coast region encompassing present day Sierra Leone or Liberia. The photographs record interactions between European or American missionaries and local communities during a......

[WWII][Philippine Occupation] Harwell, Lee W. World War II military archive, 1941–1945, recording the service of a North Carolina enlisted artilleryman from prewar mobilization through the American occupation of the Philippines following Japan’s surrender. Harwell, born in 1918 in Mooresville, North Carolina, enlisted in April 1941 and trained at Fort Bragg.....

[Western Americana] Cowboy photograph archive documenting armed riders, ranch labor, rodeo culture, and frontier mobility across the American West between the 1880s and 1920s. Images capture working cowboys on horseback, cattle branding scenes, and interactions with Native American families during the late frontier period when cattle ranching and horse culture.....

Kenneth L. Hoff photo album of U.S. Army Air Forces service in India during World War II, comprising photographs of camps, rail lines, port cities, urban staging points, and repeated movement between American military spaces and Indian civilian environments. Hoff is identified by the cover inscription and by preserved newspaper.....

Early twentieth century Mexico documented in photographs and real photo postcards depicting rural life, Indigenous labor, archaeological sites, and urban landscapes during the decades surrounding the Mexican Revolution. The images record scenes of everyday activity alongside monumental remains of ancient Mesoamerican civilizations, illustrating the cultural landscape of Mexico during a......

[South America] Gaucho photograph archive documenting cattle work, horsemanship, domestic life, and rural identity in Argentina Chile and Uruguay in the mid twentieth century, with direct evidence of how the older nomadic gaucho tradition had been absorbed into organized ranch labor and national folklore on the pampas.. The photographs were.....

Neuendettelsau Mission (publisher). Bilder aus der Neuguinea Mission (late 1920s–mid 1930s) documents German Protestant missionary activity and Indigenous life in New Guinea during the interwar period following the end of formal German colonial rule. Produced as a cigarette card album with printed German captions, the work records village life, subsistence.....

[WWII] [Indigenous Peoples] U.S. soldier photographs recording military occupation, transport, and daily movement across the Admiralty Islands, Samar, and the Philippines during World War II and its immediate aftermath, establishing how American forces operated through island bases, coastal landings, aircraft facilities, and encounters with local indigenous communities. Made and retained.....

Indigenous South American real photo postcards and photographs of Bororo and Mapuche people in Brazil and Chile, circa 1900 to 1910, preserving early twentieth century views of Indigenous family life, dress, childhood, settlement, travel, and labor across several distinct communities. Bororo subjects in Mato Grosso appear in close portrait format.....

Photographs of Indigenous communities in New Guinea during World War II document direct encounters between local populations and United States military personnel as Allied forces established operational infrastructure across the island beginning in 1942. Taken in the early to mid 1940s, these images record the presence of Indigenous men, women.....

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.....

Richardson, John. A Journal of a Boat Voyage Through Rupert’s Land and the Arctic Sea, 1851, includes illustrated plates documenting Indigenous life and natural history encountered during British Arctic exploration. The present group of plates depicts members of the Kutcha Kutchin, now identified with the Gwich’in people, presenting scenes of.....

Belgian Congo photo archive documenting colonialism and segregated settlement in Paulis, Jadotville, and at Kiubo Falls in 1946-1947, while Belgian rule expanded displacing Congolese communities from political power and control over local resources. Made by an unidentified traveler or colonial observer, the group moves between industrial sites, river traffic, town.....