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  • Two Bulgarian women arm-in-arm wearing national dress.
  • Ethnography: women of the world. Mixed method engraving attributed to S. Himely after A.M. Perrot.
  • Two Bulgarian women wearing national dress.
  • People of Leon, a man and woman holding hands, wearing traditional dress.
  • A Bulgarian woman in national dress with a water jug.
  • A young sumo wrestler posing in a photographic studio, wearing a richly decorated apron, in front of a painted backdrop.
  • A young Norwegian woman, posing in a photographic studio wearing peasant dress. Coloured photograph by S. Lund, 1903.
  • A young Norwegian woman, posing in a photographic studio wearing peasant dress. Coloured photograph by Søstrene Persen, 1901.
  • People of Segovia, a man and woman wearing traditional dress.
  • A Bulgarian woman wearing national dress.
  • Bulgarian women wearing national dress, one with a yoke-pole and two water pails.
  • People of Valencia, a man and woman wearing traditional dress.
  • A troupe of nautch dancing girls, standing in a line holding hands, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • An Indian man wearing many beads, and carrying a begging bowl and an umbrella, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Two boys in a photographic studio, one seated on a chair, in front of a curtained backdrop.
  • Athens: the gate of Athena Archegetis in the Roman Agora, Athens; a man in traditional Greek dress poses in the foreground. Photograph by Petros Moraites, ca. 1870.
  • Two Bulgarian women with a child wearing national dress.
  • A young Indian man wearing many beads and makeup in a temple precinct. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young sumo wrestler posing in a photographic studio, wearing a richly decorated apron, in front of a plain backdrop.
  • A young woman wearing a plain robe and a tasselled hat, standing in front of a painted screen.
  • A family group in a photographic studio, the women seated, in front of a curtained backdrop.
  • A large family group in a photographic studio, the women seated, in front of a painted backdrop.
  • Two nautch dancing girls, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A family group in a photographic studio, the women seated, in front of a curtained backdrop.
  • A young Indian man wearing an elaborate headress and makeup, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young Indian boy, wearing many beads and carrying a kettle, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A family portrait in a photographic studio.
  • An Indian man with long hair, carrying a staff, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • An Indian man wearing a Parsi string and make-up, squatting on a rug with his hand in a rosary bag, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A female bullfighter, with flowers in her hair, wearing a matador's jacket. Photograph by Castillo, ca. 1900.