Chinese Revolutionary era photo archive depicting public executions, military justice, and urban violence during the collapse of Qing imperial authority, circa 1900 to 1911, documenting how the machinery of state punishment evolved amid foreign intervention and domestic revolution. Made during the decade that followed the Boxer Rebellion and culminated in.....
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......
[Spanish-American War] [Military] [Cuba] United States volunteer cavalry photo archive of soldiers in the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, widely known as Theodore Roosevelt’s Rough Riders, during and immediately after the Spanish American War, ca. 1898-1900. The photographs record the daily life, training routines, and informal social culture of American.....
Spanish-American War stereoview archive, circa 1898-1899, documenting how the war was pictured through mass-produced photographic views that followed U.S. mobilization, battlefield action, occupation, and military life across both Cuba and the Philippines. These stereoviews preserves the visual system by which the war was circulated to American audiences, showcasing camp organization.....
Spanish American and Philippine American war US military photographs, circa 1898 to 1901, documenting the Spanish American War mobilization and the subsequent American occupation of the Philippines. A caption identifying “Co. B, Pa. Vol., Mt. Gretna” places one image within Pennsylvania’s 1898 volunteer encampment, where state militia companies entered federal.....
Helps, Arthur. The Conquerors Of The New World And Their Bondsmen, 1848 examines the origins of African enslavement in the West Indies and Spanish America through archival research conducted in Madrid and offers a mid-nineteenth-century British critique of Iberian colonial violence. Drawing upon Spanish records, including unpublished materials consulted at.....
Primary-source photographs documenting United States naval expansion during the Spanish–American War era, recording the emergence of a modern battleship fleet as the nation extended military presence beyond coastal defense into overseas operations. The archive supports research into late nineteenth-century naval modernization, fleet composition, and the development of American sea power.....
Photo archive documents the experiences of African American and white soldiers during and after World War II, with a particular focus on the postwar occupation of Japan and the Philippines. African American and white United States Army soldiers in occupied Japan and the Philippines appear throughout this World War II.....
[Colonialism][Religion] Archive of letters by Dr. John A. Reuling recording his 1946 missionary work in Africa, across mid-century Portuguese, Belgian, British, and South African colonial systems, where evangelism was a tool of westernization and colonialism alongside education, public health, and agricultural training. Written during Reuling’s first year as Africa Secretary.....
[Caribbean] [Photography] Large-format Caribbean photography archive documenting everyday life, labor, and landscape across multiple British Caribbean territories during the early twentieth century. Produced circa 1910s–1920s, the photographs depict Jamaica, St. Thomas, Trinidad, and Bermuda at a time when maritime trade, imperial administration, and expanding leisure travel were reshaping island economies.....
Colonial Italian Navy photo archive depicting sailors of the gunboat Lepanto in China, circa 1933 to 1943 documenting Italy's Tianjin concession, Italy's formal colonial territory in China, granted in 1901 following the Boxer Rebellion. It covered approximately half a square kilometer and was strategically located on the east bank of.....
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.....
South African apartheid photo archive belonging to "M. Adams" documenting the segregated community of Korsten, Port Elizabeth, through vernacular photographs capturing sanitation, labor, schooling, health care, and everyday life through portraiture and street photography. A contemporary handwritten inventory headed “Slums of Korsten, Port Elizabeth, S.A.” links individual photographs to subjects.....
German colonial forces operating in German South West Africa, present day Namibia, execution photograph documenting colonial military punishment of African prisoners during the early period of German imperial rule, circa 1896. The image records a scene of public hanging in which numerous African men appear suspended from a gallows while.....
Real photo postcards depicting Indigenous peoples of Argentina in the early twentieth century document communities identified in captions as Indios del Chaco alongside additional references to southern regions including Tierra del Fuego. Produced during a period of intensified state expansion and consolidation, these images record Indigenous individuals and groups at.....
Panama City photograph archive, ca. 1920s, documenting the urban environment of the Panamanian capital and the infrastructure of the Panama Canal during the decades following the canal’s opening in 1914. The photographs record the interconnected worlds of canal engineering, international commerce, tourism, and everyday street life that developed as Panama.....
Langwill, J. P. and Mrs. J. P. Photo album and travel scrapbook, 1941 to 1952, a multi format record of civilian travel through southern Africa during and immediately after World War II, preserving firsthand observations of colonial infrastructure, landscape, and local communities. Compiled by an American couple residing in Cape.....
Vernacular family photograph album from Trinidad and Tobago, circa 1930s–1940s, documents Black middle-class life in the late colonial Caribbean through domestic portraiture, institutional affiliation, and social ritual prior to national independence in 1962. The album centers a single extended family and records weddings, childhood, education, and professional identity, situating its.....
Boxer Rebellion photographs dating from the turn of the twentieth century document the military intervention of the Eight Nation Alliance during the uprising known in Western sources as the Boxer Rebellion. The conflict developed between 1899 and 1901 when the Chinese Society of Righteous and Harmonious Fists mobilized against foreign.....
British frontier military photo archive documenting the administration of Britain's North West Frontier during the final years of the First World War and its immediate aftermath, 1917 to 1919, showing how the Indian Army sustained imperial communications, cavalry training, transport, and everyday life across what is now Pakistan. Made at.....
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.....
French military photo album tracing the movement of French servicemen from infantry instruction at Saint-Maixent-l’École into North African field service during the Algerian War era, with sustained documentation of rallye exercises, convoy organization, patrol work, barracks labor, communications equipment, and winter combat preparation. The album’s training sequences include helmeted soldiers.....
SMS Scharnhorst East Asia Squadron photo archive depicting Imperial German naval ritual, sailor leisure, and encounters with Chinese civilians in and around Tsingtao circa 1910, during the cruiser’s service as flagship of Germany’s principal naval force in East Asia. Scharnhorst joined the East Asia Squadron in 1909 and assumed the.....
Samoa photo archive documenting villages and locals during the U.S. colonial administration in 1928. Several inscriptions identify Tutuila, Manua, Utulei, Leone, and Pago Pago Bay, while one captioned view explicitly notes a native governor in white and the American governor during an inspection, placing the group within the administrative system.....
British frontier military photo archive documenting the garrison system of the North West Frontier during the final years of the First World War, 1917 to 1918, showing how the British Indian Army organized training, logistics, aviation, medical services, and daily military life across what is now Pakistan. Centered on Risalpur.....
