Population Collection (#6)

Baby-Farming
The baby-farmer waters his cabbage field. Date: 1906

Zimbabwe (Rhodesia) - Street in Gwelo
Black and white lantern Slide of Street in Gwelo - British South Africa.. Part of Box 288, British South Africa. Boswell Collection. Slide number 11

Sarus Crane - pair in wetland habitat (Indian population) (Grus antigone). Nepal

Siberian Lemming - skull in tundra (typical scene due to a high lemming population), next to a flowering White Dryas (Dryas octopetala) plant (Lemmus sibiricus)

Maori group, New Zealand. Date: circa 1890s

French World War One refugees
Liberation: the freeing of the civil population. Rescued after living for four years in the enemy lines: a party of French refugees being conveyed to safety in Northern France after cessation of

Brick Lane Market, London, 1902
Illustration showing the Sunday morning market in Brick Lane, Spitalfields, London, in 1902. This market, selling a wide variety of goods including clothing and livestock

Demerara River GUYANA South America
Demerara River, Guyana

CARTOON: RHODESIA, 1976. OK, I m ready and willing to carry this out. Cartoon comment on the transfer of power in Rhodesia to the black majority; Prime Minister Ian Smith moves water with a sieve as

POSTER: BRAZIL, c1942. Resources of Brazil - Products she contributes to the defeat of the Axis. Lithograph, c1942

Illustration, Aboriginal tribesman wearing red headband, profile

General view of blocks of flats and the Seoul city skyline at dusk in Seoul, Korea

Syrian Turks - Aleppo, Syria
Syrian Turks (Turks in Syria, Syrian Turkoman or Syrian Turkmen) - Syrian citizens of Turkish descent, living in the Syrian provinces of the Ottoman Empire before its dissolution

Ainu Couple - Japan
The Ainu (also called Aynu, Aino and in historical texts Ezo) - indigenous people or groups in Japan (Hokkaido) and Russia (Sakhalin and the Kuril Islands). Ainu men often wear heavy beards

Natives of Transjordania - nr. Jerusalem, Israel. Date: circa 1920s

Swahili People of Tanzania
Group of Swahili people - a Bantu ethnic group and culture found in East Africa. This group come from Tanzania (formerly German East Africa). Date: circa 1910s

Australian Aboriginal Girl and wild flowers Date: circa 1903

Easter Rising (originally captioned The Dublin rebellion) Liberty Hall after the fighting 1916 Topfoto stills library picture library stock archive vintage Ireland Irish Rebellion 1916

Home front 1940. Showing the destruction caused by German bombing, Brits go about their normal daily business, even in the throes of war

Picture No. 10863214
Cooper Creek and Innamincka on the Strzelecki Track. Population: 9. South Australia Date:

A rooftop basketball court in Sao Paulo, Brazil

The Red Fort in Old Delhi, India

Young Indian girl aged 15 in purple in front of village of Jodhpur in Rajasthan India (MR)

Indigenous reed boat on Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
Totora reeds have been used by various pre-Columbian South American civilizations to build reed boats. The boats, called balsa, vary in size from small fishing canoes to thirty meters long

A Mapuche Woman
Mapuche Woman chief or leader (Cacique). The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina

Young Mapuche Indians - South America
Young Mapuche Indians. The Mapuche are a group of indigenous inhabitants of south-central Chile and southwestern Argentina. Date: circa 1906

Nivkh People - Nikolayevsk-on-Amur, Russia
The Nivkh - an indigenous ethnic group inhabiting the northern half of Sakhalin Island and the region of the Amur River estuary in Russias Khabarovsk Krai near Nikolayevsk-on-Amur in Far Eastern

People from Dobruja, Romania
People from Dobruja (or Dobrudja / Dobrudzha / Dobrogea) - a historical region shared by Bulgaria and Romania, located between the lower Danube River and the Black Sea, including the Danube Delta

New Zealand - Carved Maori Gateway, with a dapper Gent standing within the lower arch giving an accurate idea of the scale

Eskimo Ladies from Alaska
Four Eskimo Ladies from Cape Prince of Wales, Alaska. The woman on the left is wearing (interestingly) a very western pair of lace-up shoes as opposed to her fellows in traditional fur boots!

A Mexican girl carrying her younger brother
A delightful photographic postcard of a young Mexican Indian girl carrying her even younger brother in a shawl sling on her back. She is wearing sandals and chews on a piece of white cord or string

A view of Erzurum - Turkey
Erzurum (Armenian - Karin), is a city in eastern Anatolia, Turkey. The name " Erzurum" derives from " Arz-u Rm" (literally The Land of the Romans i n Persian)

A Uyghur family and tent
A Uyghur family stand before their traditional tent house - Xinjiang Province, southern China. Photograph by Ralph Ponsonby Watts during his journey from Kashmir to Kashgar

Ethiopian Musicians
Five Ethiopian Musicians - a popular beat combo of the region (possibly called Oasis !)

Tribesman of the Jarawa Tribe
Facial Scarification evident on a tribesman from the Jarawa Tribe. The Jarawa are one of the adivasi indigenous peoples of the Andaman Islands. There are only 250-350 members of this tribe alive today

The Marchington Family outside the Post Office in Dove Holes
Photograph of the Marchington family outside the Post Office which they ran in Dove Holes, Derbyshire, 1913. Mr. Marchington (centre of doorway) was thinking of emigrating to Toronto, Canada

Africa at night, satellite image. City lights (yellow) show areas of dense population, particularly in Europe and the Middle East (top)

East Asia at night, satellite image
East Asia at night. Satellite image of the Earth at night, centred over China. City lights (yellow) show areas of dense population

Census / 1901 / John Bull
John Bulls tailor measures him for a new suit - a satirical comment on a dramatic rise in population, as demonstrated by the 1901 Census

Canterbury Pilgrims
The pilgrims who narrated Chaucers Canterbury Tales, a cross-section of the population, depicted in clothing suitable for an excursion in April

Pedestrians and traffic at a busy road crossing in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong, China

Shibuya Crossing, one of the busiest crossings in the world, Tokyo, Japan

Wader. El Gorum. Somalia. Africa

Aerial view of the suburbs of Pemba, northern Mozambique

Deucalion and Pyrrha repeople the world by throwing stones behind them, 1733. Artist: Bernard Picart
Deucalion and Pyrrha repeople the world by throwing stones behind them, 1733. A plate from Le Temple des Muses, Amsterdam, 1733. Found in the collection of Jean Claude Carriere

Thomas Robert Malthus, English economist and clergyman. Malthus (1766-1834) believed that population growth would outstrip food supplies, with disastrous results

Title page of Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, 1806. Artist: Thomas Malthus
Title page of Essay on the Principle of Population by Thomas Malthus, 1806. Thomas Robert Malthus (1766-1834), English cleric and economist

Distribution of the Jews in Germany, lithograph, published in 1897
Map of the distribution of the Jews in Germany at the end of the 19th century. Lithograph, published in 1897

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