ARCHIVE The ethnophotographic collection
ARCHIVE The ethnophotographic collection
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
Unidentified photographer (Dieufils?), Vietnam, 1890s; albumen print
Ingleside Inn, Phoenix Ariz.; gelatin silver print. Obviously a photo for tourists, distributed by the Ingleside Inn which in the 1920s became the first luxury hotel in the Valley of the Sun in Arizona
Unidentified photographer, 1880s, Farmer wearing raincoat made of palm leaves. Luzon, Philippines; albumen print
Skeen (?), 1880s, Man with water buffalo. Ceylon [Sri Lanka]; lbumen print
Onnes Kurkdjian, 1910s, Balinese women pounding rice
Indianer, Patagonien. Glass plate positive.
Rudolf Pöch, 1906, phonographic recording of songs of the Baifa-Papua, South coast of British New Guinea
Philip Adolphe Klier (?) Andaman Islanders; albumen print
Dmitri Yermakov, 1880s, Turkestan; albumen print
Bali, On the way to tooth filing
Mauresque riche. Albumen print.
Theater performers, China, 1870s
Indigenous man of New Caledonia
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