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......

[Mexico Photography] Vernacular photograph album documenting daily life, labor, and civic culture in Mexico and California, 1906–1908, with substantial visual material from the late Porfirian era preceding the Mexican Revolution. The album records markets, religious architecture, rural labor, and public spectacle across central Mexico, alongside views of communities in the.....

[Taiwan] Missionary photograph album documenting Christian evangelical and educational work in Taiwan in 1950s and 1960s, created during the first post Civil War decade of Kuomintang rule on the island and reflecting the consolidation of the Republic of China government after 1949. Produced in the early Cold War context, when.....

Josephine Baker performance archive from 1927 to 1975, documenting the theatrical construction and international circulation of her public identity across the Folies Bergère, Havana, Broadway, and her final autobiographical revue at Bobino. The five pieces follow Baker from the racialized spectacle of interwar Paris through postwar productions in which she.....

[Latin America] SS Resolute voyage photograph album, 1925, documenting a steamship journey through Central and South America during the interwar expansion of international maritime tourism following the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914. The photographs record port cities, landscapes, and civic landmarks encountered along the Pacific and Atlantic coasts.....

Chinese Eastern Railway and rural Manchuria photo archive depicting railway travel across Manchuria in 1903, documenting the rapid transformation of northeastern China into one of the most contested transportation corridors of the early twentieth century. Created only months before the outbreak of the Russo-Japanese War, the photographs record a landscape.....

Caribbean photograph album, likely compiled by a person connected to the Panama Canal Zone and the Caribbean, documenting how steamship mobility, port circulation, and U.S. imperial presence linked Jamaica, Venezuela, Trinidad, Barbados, Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas, Florida, and Panama in the years after the canal opened. The felt cover.....

English woman’s photo album documenting a year of work and travel in Apartheid era South Africa and Southern Rhodesia in 1954-1955, during a time when white colonies were well established during the consolidation of apartheid. Compiled by an English woman attached to the Over-Seas League, Torquay branch, and employed for.....

Mid-century Mexico photo archive of markets, colonial architecture, rural households, and regional custom, recording Mexico everyday labor, Indigenous craft, traditional dress, and iconic national scenery. The photos primarily show on the ground local customs, basket vendors seated behind stacks of woven wares, pottery sellers in street market display, women posed.....

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.....

British Ceylon photographic archive, circa 1934, documenting the labor systems that sustained one of the British Empire's most profitable plantation economies. Rather than emphasizing colonial administration or metropolitan life, the photographs concentrate on the people whose agricultural work produced tea, coconuts, rice, and other commodities that defined Ceylon's export economy.....

Early 20th century Mexico real photo postcard archive documents urban development, regional architecture, and everyday life across multiple states during the final years of the Porfiriato and the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. Produced between the 1900s and 1920s, the group captures both infrastructural modernization and persistent rural lifeways across.....

At 6:42 a.m. on June 29, 1925, Santa Barbara was struck by a severe earthquake that killed thirteen people, caused roughly $8 million in damage, and tore through the city’s commercial center before most stores and offices had opened for the day. This large archive of photos record the ruined.....