rainworld archive’s ethnophotographic collection comprises a large number of images from all continents, mainly travel and expedition photography from the 19th century until the 1950s. The authors are both commercial photographers and amateurs including anthropologists and other participants of scientific expeditions. The images here serve as examples of our vast collection. Their authors, sitters, context, and historical significance  are currently under research.

Philip Adolphe Klier,  Burmese Lady; albumen print

Indianer, Patagonien. Glass plate positive.

Rudolf Pöch, 1906, phonographic recording of songs of the Baifa-Papua, South coast of British New Guinea

Mauresque riche. Albumen print.

Philip Adolphe Klier (?) Andaman Islanders; albumen print

Dmitri Yermakov, 1880s, Turkestan