Foreign Collection (#30)

Pictures of people from foreign lands - Russian. Japanese print shows a man seated in a chair playing an accordian and a woman with a horn standing next to him. Date 1860

Banquet at a foreign mercantile house in Yokohama. Japanese print shows an English merchant seated at a table and being waited on by a Chinese man

People from foreign lands - American woman. Japanese print shows a woman riding sidesaddle. Date 1861

Foreign mercantile house in Yokohama. Japanese triptych print shows Japanese women (geishas and courtesans) entertaining residents at a foreign settlement house in Yokohama, Japan. Date 1861

People from foreign lands - Americans, French. Japanese print shows two women talking with each other and two men in military uniforms talking together. Date 1861

Picture of foreign children at play. Japanese print shows foreign children playing games outdoors. Date 1860

Foreign words. Japanese print shows an American on horseback and a Chinese man standing nearby. Japanese-Dutch(?) vocabulary chart of numbers and unidentified price code(?) on recto of print

Cooking in foreign settlement house. Japanese print shows men working in the kitchen of a foreign settlement house in Japan. Date 1860

Eight foreign ships seen from Urashima temple hill, Kanagawa. Japanese print shows ships in harbor at the top and the landing of American military personnel at the bottom. Date between 1850 and 1900

The Great Industrial Exhibition of 1851. Date c1851

For united America, YWCA division for foreign born women. Poster showing a female figure holding large standards bearing many shields emblazoned with national flags

Royal Gardens, Vauxhall. Next Tuesday, 24th July, grand day and evening fete, will be given in honor of the foreign ambassadors

Changing nature of Chinese characters
Illustration to show the changing nature of Chinese characters, as imagined by the Dutch. From: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces

Portrait of Johannes Nieuhof (1618-1672), From: Het gezandtschap der Ne견 andtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China Date: 1655

Dutch version of the Viceroy of Canton. The Old viceroy is sitting in front of his officials. From: Het gezandtschap der Ne견 andtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie

Boats in Canton harbour From: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China Date: 1655

Qing Emperor Shunzhi
Portrait of The Great Cham Emperor Qing Emperor, Shunzhi (1638-1661). From: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China Date: 1655

Chinese men and women labeled Rusticks From: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China Date: 1655

Buddhist pagoda
Pagoda by Sinkicien, A Buddhist pagoda, with men, women and a Chinese junk in the foreground, houses and a walled city in the background

Tail-piece of the Dutch edition. From: Het gezandtschap der Ne견 andtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China Date: 1655

Newsstand with foreign language newspapers. Date 1941 Fall

Old Viceroy of Canton
Ogilbys version of the Old Viceroy of Canton. From: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China Date: 1655

A tea plant, and workers harvesting tea - China
A tea plant, and workers harvesting tea in China in 1655. From: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China Date: 1655

Men wanted over 31 years of age for American Red Cross foreign service. Poster showing a wounded soldier looking to the horizon

Taoist and Buddhists priests, a Jesuit and a Confucian

Chinese women on a street in China From: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China Date: 1655

Tail-piece of the French edition From: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China Date: 1655

Inner court of the Imperial palace at Beijing, including figures of the Dutch Embassy, the Mongol embassy, and the Emperor and his guards

Map of China, the route of the embassy is marked. From: An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham Emperor of China Date: 1655

Frontispiece Qing Emperor, Shunzhi
Frontispiece illustration featuring the Emperor of China (Qing Emperor, Shunzhi (1638-1661) and a globe surrounded by courtiers and prisoners

Dutch ships in stormy seas off the coast of China. From: Het gezandtschap der Ne견 andtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie, aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham

As the heathen see us - a meeting of the Chinese foreign mis

New Polish Cabinet in Paris, 1939
A new Polish Cabinet formed to lead and direct the Polish effort, despite the country being overrun by the German and Russian armies. The new Government was, second from left, M

Ministry of the Exterior - Bucharest, Romania
Ministry of the Exterior (Foreign Office/Ministry) - Bucharest, Romania Date: 1908

Moscow - Ministry of Foreign Affairs - one of the Seven Sisters Skyscrapers, built under in the Stalinist style in the late 1940s. Date: circa early 1950s

Iraq - French Foreign Legion cross Euphrates
Troops of the French foreign Legion cross the Euphrates River, Iraq in boats - January, 1926. Date: 1926

Tokyo Street Scene
An early view of one of Tokyos principal thorough- -fares, home to daimios (officials) : later it will house the Foreign Office and War Department. Date: early 19th century

Politician pelted with rotten eggs
A Politician (Juggins) is pelted with rotten eggs at a hustings. A clever play on words on this postcard from the Market Reports series

Kazimierz Pulaski
KAZIMIERZ PULASKI PONIATOWSKI - sometime lover of Catherine the Great, but her devious foreign policy led to his abdication and the destruction of his country. Date: 1748 - 1779

Stanislaw Poniatowski
STANISLAW II AUGUST PONIATOWSKI - sometime lover of Catherine the Great, but her devious foreign policy led to his abdication and the destruction of his country. Date: 1732 - 1798

India - Foreign Office Personnel and staff
Group of British Foreign Office personnel in India and their house staff. Date: circa 1920s

Ezra, Prophet
EZRA Jewish priest and scribe, a teacher of the Torah, advocate of strict observance of the law, particularly opposing the taking of foreign wives. Date: circa 459 BCE

Diplomats of the Central Powers
Gathering of foreign diplomats of the Central powers during World War one, indluding Count Lajos Szechenyi de Sarvar-Felsovidek

Balfour visiting Howitzer 1916
Arthur Balfour (central figure in flat cap), as Foreign Secretary in David Lloyd Georges wartime coalition government, viewing a 9.2-inch Howitzer during his visit to the front (location unknown)

Peshawar Fur Market - with bales loaded on carts all ready for foreign export. Date: 1910s

Touring Club Italiano chart, aeroplanes and airships
Touring Club Italiano chart of aeroplanes and airships, Italian and foreign (German, Austrian, French, British), for recognition purposes

Arthur Balfour in France

International Scout Troop in Warsaw, all members are sons of foreign Embassies staff. circa 1960s

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