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  • A young woman posing naked against a decorative dressing screen.
  • Two young Kikuyu men, carrying sticks. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A metal and timber box (chest, trunk), once the property of E N Fallaize, used to house his photographic collection. Construction and assembly by H. Davies and sons, 1916.
  • A Bulgarian female acrobat standing on her hands.
  • A troupe of nautch dancing girls, standing in a line holding hands, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young woman, posing naked in a photographic studio, sitting on the arm of a "Roman" chair. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A metal and timber box (chest, trunk), once the property of E N Fallaize, used to house his photographic collection. Construction and assembly by H. Davies and sons, 1916.
  • A line of sedan chairs waiting beside a railway track, in Korea.
  • An Indian man wearing many beads, and carrying a begging bowl and an umbrella, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young woman posing naked in a photographic studio, lying on her front on a piece of fabric, a goblet and jug beside her. Stereo photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young woman posing naked but for a long veil, leaning back in a chair, in a photographic studio, in front of a curtain. Stereo photograph, ca.1900.
  • Two shops or market stalls, in Korea.
  • An Indian snake charmer squatting down playing his pipe, with two cobras in a basket in front of him, in a studio setting. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A young African man posing naked, holding a stick and a piece of cloth, in front of a painted backdrop.
  • Two Bulgarian women wearing national dress.
  • A standing woman, posed with an upraised fan and pointed toe, wearing a fringed shawl, in front of a painted backdrop in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A metal and timber box (chest, trunk), once the property of E N Fallaize, used to house his photographic collection. Construction and assembly by H. Davies and sons, 1916.
  • A family portrait in a photographic studio.
  • A Samoan woman with leaves in her hair.
  • A metal and timber box (chest, trunk), once the property of E N Fallaize, used to house his photographic collection. Construction and assembly by H. Davies and sons, 1916.
  • A young woman, winner of a beauty contest, wearing a large black hat with a trailing scarf round her throat.
  • A man posing naked, with his back to the camera, standing on a rocky outcrop.
  • A man posing naked, with his back to the camera, in a studio setting.
  • A young Masai man, wearing a very large earring. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • A group of people eating a meal, seated behind a small table, in front of a painted screen.
  • A man posing naked in a boxing stance with his fists raised, on a deserted beach.
  • A Bulgarian female acrobat performing contortions in a photographic studio.
  • A Bulgarian woman in national dress with a water jug.
  • A man posing naked, standing with his back to the camera on a rocky outcrop in a leafy landscape.
  • A standing woman, holding aloft a fan, wearing a fringed shawl, in front of a painted backdrop in a photographic studio. Photograph, ca.1900.