Aug 30, 2012

Oriental Study of a Native Woman - Vintage Post Card


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Two Tribal Rural Women in Traditional Dress - Undated Photograph



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Indian Tribal Woman in Traditional Costume and Ornaments - Undated Photograph

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Indian Tribal Woman in Traditional Dress - Undated Photograph


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Andamanese Woman with her Baby - Undated Photograph

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Group fo Tribal Rural Women Eating Together - Undated Photographer


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Portrait of a Rural Woman - Undated Photograph


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Dancing Women of India - Undated Photograph

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Hindu Water-Carrier Woman - Undated Post Card

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Indian Village Boy and his Mother - Undated Photograph


Photographer: Sunil Roy
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Shreemati Nathibai Damodar Thackersey Women's University of Bombay, India and co-founder, Premhila Vithaldas Thackersey - 1925


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A Ganjam Woman with a Baby - India, Undated Photograph

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Woman with a Metal Water Pot - India Undated Photograph

Photographer: Sunil Roy
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Indian Rural Woman Breast Feeding Her Child - Undated Photograph

Photographer: Sunil Roy
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Three Tribal Women - India, Date Unknown

Photographer: Sunil Roy
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Indian Tribal Woman - Vintage Post Card, Date Unknown

Photographer: Sunil Roy
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Tribal Woman Collecting Sticks - India Undated Photograh


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Tribal Man and Woman - Undated Photograph

Photographer: Sunil Roy
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Procession of Mahatma Gandhi's Followers - 1922


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Vintage Photograph of a Sikh Nobleman - Date Unknown


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Aug 29, 2012

Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy, Chief Minister of Bengal - Calcutta (Kolkata) September 1946




 Hussein Shaheed Suhrawardy (R), Chief Minister of Bengal, next to his predecessor Khwaja Nazimuddin, at home

 

Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White
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English girls clad in brief costumes performing on dance floor at Grand Hotel's Prince nightclub - Calcutta (Kolkata) 1955


Photographer:  James Burke
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Chinese Communist Cultural Delegation in Calcutta (Kolkata) - 1955

 Cheng Chen To (C), head of Chinese Communist Cultural Delegation, visiting India

 Chinese Communist Cultural Delegation, visiting India, viewing exhibit, at the Academy of Fine Arts

 Chinese Communist Cultural Delegation, visiting India, viewing exhibit, at the Academy of Fine Arts

 Chinese dancers in costume performing during cultural program

 Girls from local Chinese school gathered in street holding floral tributes, awaiting arrival of Chinese Communist Cultural Delegation

 Indian spraying DDT, on carpet at railroad station prior to arrival of Chinese Comm. Cultural Delegation, crowds gathered to greet visitors

 Mayor of Calcutta, N. N. Mookerjee, in native dress, speaking into mike welcoming Cheng Chen To, head of Chinese Communist Cultural Delegation, seated beside him

 Scenes from Peking opera taken from Monkey King Epic, players ornately costumed, during cultural program

Scenes from Peking opera taken from Monkey King Epic, players ornately costumed, during cultural program

Photographer: James Burke
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Aug 26, 2012

Igatpuri Lake in Maharashtra - c1870's


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Tenzing Norgay with his Wife and Children - 1953


Tenzing Norgay,was a Nepali Sherpa mountaineer. Among the most famous mountain climbers in history, he was one of the first two individuals known to have reached the summit of Mount Everest, which he accomplished with Edmund Hillary on 29 May 1953. He was named by Time Magazine as one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century.

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Comet Bennett over Delhi. In foreground is Humayun's Tomb - March 1970


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Aug 24, 2012

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan, Vice President of India 1954


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Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru Turns Water Irrigation Wheel - Khanpur 1958


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Aug 23, 2012

The Memorial Well in Cawnpore (Kanpur) - 19th Century Photograph


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Portrait of Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru - 1958


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View of Taj Mahal from Agra Fort - c1928


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A Man is Drinking Water from a Road side Tap - Bombay (Mumbai) Late 1920's

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A Hindu Holy Man (Sadhu) - Benares (Varanasi) Late 1920's

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Portrait of a Native Man - Ceylon (Sri Lanka) c1932


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Women Porters in Bombay (Mumbai) - Late 1920's

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A Stall in a Market - Kandy, Ceylon (Sri Lanka) c1932


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