Sociology Collection (#3)

Portrait of Charles Fourier (1772 - 1837), French socialist theorist
GIA4704074 Portrait of Charles Fourier (1772 - 1837), French socialist theorist. Engraving of the 19th century. by Unknown Artist

Emile DURKHEIM. (1858 - 1917) French sociologist
XEE4405398 Emile DURKHEIM. (1858 - 1917) French sociologist. by Unknown photographer, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Emile DURKHEIM)

Portraits-charge (portraits charge) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Pierre Joseph Proudhon
JEB4885961 Portraits-charge (portraits charge) by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (Pierre Joseph Proudhon, 1809-1865), French journalist and anarchist sociologist (engraving)

Portrait of Charles Fourier (1772 - 1837), French socialist theorist
GIA4704082 Portrait of Charles Fourier (1772 - 1837), French socialist theorist. Engraving of the 19th century. by Unknown Artist

Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher, political theorist, biologist and sociologist (b / w photo)
817737 Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), English philosopher, political theorist, biologist and sociologist (b/w photo) by English Photographer

Oceania Australia Culture 1896
Oceania Australia Traditional Culture Chromolithograph

MEXICO 1099
CENTRAL AMERICA/ MEXICO/ YUCATAN PENINSULA / YUCATAN/ VALLADOLID. View of Valladolid cityOs main market exteriors with a salesman reading newspaper, colorful umbrellas, fruits

MEXICO 1102
CENTRAL AMERICA/ MEXICO/ YUCATAN PENINSULA / YUCATAN/ VALLADOLID/ Valladolid citys market CALLE 39. Portrait of an old Mexican saleswoman wearing Yucatan areas traditional white dress with colored

Japanese Marriage Customs, pub. 1824. Creator: Japanese School (19th century)
Japanese Marriage Customs, plate from Bijzonderheden over Japan published 1824 (colour litho). A plate for Illustrations of Japan by Isaac Titsingh (1745-1812)

Japanese Marriage: the two families meeting, with mediator; pub. 1824. Creator: Japanese School
Japanese Marriage: the two families meeting, with mediator; plate from Bijzonderheden over Japan published 1824 (colour lithograph)

Weaver of cloth, 1782. Creator: Pierre Sonnerat (after) (1745-1814)
Weaver of cloth, from Voyage aux Indes et a la Chine, engraved by Poisson, 1782 (colour engraving). Hindu man seen sitting outside at a loom weaving cloth

Tycoons halting place on the Tocaido Hasa, 1868. Creator: Felice Beato (1825-c. 1908)
Tycoons halting place on the Tocaido Hasa, 1868 (b/w photo)

Ladies at Home, 1890 s. Creator: Japanese Photographer (19th Century)
Ladies at Home, 1890s (hand coloured photo). A group of three young women, all dressed in the traditional costume of geishas

Women picking tea, with male overseer, 1890 s. Creator: Japanese Photographer (19th Century)
Women picking tea, with male overseer, 1890s (hand coloured photo). A large group of women are seen toiling on a tea plantation

The famous cherry tree at Maruyama, Kyoto 1890 s. Creator: Japanese Photographer (19th Century)
The famous cherry tree at Maruyama, Kyoto 1890s (hand coloured photo). An unknown photographer captures a moment in a park in Japan where groups of figures admire an impressive cherry tree in

Girl arranging flowers, 1890 s. Creator: Japanese Photographer (19th Century)
Girl arranging flowers, 1890s (hand coloured photo). A geisha is seen in a highly traditional interior setting preparing tea and arranging irises in a vase

Five peasants re-planting rice in a paddy field, 1890 s. Creator: Japanese Photographer
Five peasants re-planting rice in a paddy field, 1890s (hand coloured photo)

Auguste Comte (1798-1857)
COMTE, Auguste (Montpellier, 1798-Pari?s, 1857). French philosopher and sociologist

Oceanic People Chromolithograph 1896
Ozeanische Volker (Oceanic People) Chromolithograph 1896

Thomas Hobbes, caricature
Thomas Hobbes. Caricature of the English philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588-1679). Hobbes led a sheltered and long life, mostly as secretary and teacher to the family of Lord Cavendish

Herbert Marcuse (1898-1979)
Marcuse, Herbert (Berlin, 1898, Starnberg, 1979). German-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School

Burning money, 1920s German inflation C016 / 4519
Burning money. Woman burning German currency (German Papiermark) during the hyperinflation in Germany in the early 1920s. Before World War I, the Germany currency was known as the Goldmark

Tenement housing, New York City, 1912 C016 / 2550
Tenement housing, New York City, USA. This tenement block is 260 to 268 Elizabeth Street, a street in Manhattan, New York City, USA

Herbert Spencer, English philosopher and sociologist, 1897. Born in Derby, Spencer (1820-1903) put forward the idea and coined the term survival of the fittest and was an advocate of social Darwinism

Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1798), French Enlightenment philosopher and sociologist, 1874
Marie-Jean-Antoine-Nicolas de Caritat, Marquis de Condorcet (1743-1794), French Enlightenment philosopher and sociologist

AZCARATE MENENDEZ, Gumersindo (1840-1917). Spanish politician and sociologist. Engraving

Marcuse, Herbert (Berlin, 1898, Starnberg, 1979). German-Jewish philosopher, political theorist and sociologist, and a member of the Frankfurt School

COMTE, Auguste (Montpellier, 1798-Pars, 1857). French philosopher and sociologist
Comte, Auguste (Montpellier, 1798-ParIs, 1857). French philosopher and sociologist

Arenal, Concepcin (El Ferrol, 1820-Vigo, 1893)
Arenal, Concepcion (El Ferrol, 1820-Vigo, 1893). Spanish writer and sociologist. Nineteenth century engraving

AZCARATE MENENDEZ, Gumersindo (1840-1917). Spanish politician and sociologist. Engraving

Auguste Comte, etched by Felix Bracquemond, 1851 (etching)
XJF447356 Auguste Comte, etched by Felix Bracquemond, 1851 (etching) by Guichard, Joseph Benoit (1806-80) (after); Private Collection; (add.info.: Auguste Comte (1798-1857) French philosopher

The British Beehive, 1867 (litho)
XJF393818 The British Beehive, 1867 (litho) by Cruikshank, George (1792-1878); Private Collection; (add.info.: cartoon sketched by Cruikshank in 1840 but only published by him in 1867; his pictorial)

Ralph David Abernathy pastor and civil rights leader March 11, 1926 - April 17, 1990 the son of a farmer, was born on March 11, 1926 in Lindon, Alabama

William Graham Sumner (1840-1910), American sociologist, economist, and protagonist of Social Darwinism. Professor of sociology at Yale University

George Forster, German naturalist C017 / 0687
Johann George Adam Forster (1754-1794), German naturalist, ethnologist, travel writer, journalist, essayist and revolutionary

J. -J. Rousseau, Swiss-French philosopher C017 / 7112
Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778), Swiss-French philosopher and author. Rousseau was also a botanist, political theorist and musician. At the age of 13 he took up an apprenticeship in engraving

Sheepherder filling water bag, 1939
Sheepherder filling water bag, Rosebud County, Montana, USA. Photographed in June 1939 by photographer Arthur Rothstein (1915-1985)

Bootblacks, New York City, 1890s C016 / 8996
Bootblacks, New York City, 1890s. 19th-century gelatin silver print of bootblacks (boot polishers) on the streets of New York City, USA

Secretarial typing work, USA, 1901 C016 / 8997
Secretarial typing work. Typewriter (right) being used to type out a document that is being read out at left. The man at left is P. A. Gaine, General Secretary of the organisation

Immigrants, New York City, 1890s C016 / 8995
Immigrants, New York City, 1890s. 19th-century gelatin silver print of a group of men, including immigrants, on the streets of New York City, USA

Bankruptcy punishment, 16th century C016 / 8992
Bankruptcy punishment. Historical artwork showing bankrupt men being punished in a pillory in 16th-century France. Notices tell the crowd that the men have been convicted of fraudulence

Cangue punishment in China, 19th century C016 / 8988
Cangue punishment in China, 19th century

Science mentoring, conceptual artwork
Science mentoring. Conceptual artwork of a senior scientist (right) mentoring a younger one, represented as being cultured in a petri dish (left)

Luggage cart at train station, 1910s C018 / 0635
Luggage cart at train station. Porter wheeling luggage at the newly opened Pennsylvania Station, New York City, USA. This train station was completed in 1910

Lifeguard and beach visitors, 1880-1906 C014 / 2057
Lifeguard and beach visitors. Thought to have been taken in Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA, this photograph, from the Detroit Publishing Company, dates from some point in the period from 1880 to 1906

Child riding on a tram, Boston, 1909 C014 / 2047
Child riding on a tram in the streets of Boston, Massachusetts, USA, 1909. This illegal practice, where children rode on the rear of trams, was known as flipping cars

VE Day crowd, London, 1945 C014 / 2066
VE Day crowd. Large crowds gathered in London, UK, on 8 May 1945 to celebrate the end of hostilities in Europe during the Second World War

Chartists National Convention, 1839 C015 / 6080
Chartists National Convention. 19th-century artwork of the first formal gathering of Chartists at the National Convention of 4 February 1839

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