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The Fallaize Collection.

A music teacher surrounded by his female pupils, in a studio setting in Sophia. Photograph, 1904.

Two women posing naked in a photographic studio, standing embracing each other in front of some studio props.

An old man, holding his hat in his hand.

A young woman, posing naked against a mocked-up rural background.

A Maori man with a tattooed face.

A man, wearing a fur robe, standing in a photographic studio, his hand resting on a small table.

A gathering of Zulu Impi, wearing full battle regalia, with a white man standing amongst them.

A Kikuyu woman being circumcised.

Views of British East Africa / printed and published by H. Binks, photographer, Nairobi.

Male body-builders from the Physical Culture Society of Montreal.

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 woman wearing a yashmak around her head. Photographic postcard.

A North African woman, posing against a plain background in a photographic studio.

An elderly North African man, leaning on a stick, posing against a plain background in a photographic studio.

A burning ghat in Calcutta: a family preparing a body for cremation on a pile of logs.

Girls in a field with flowers and baskets.

Women and girls posing nude. Photographs.

Stonehenge.

A collection of press cuttings, text and illustrations, mostly from the Times, relating to archaeology and ethnography.

Toutes les femmes, études.

Le modèle / par E. de Chavannes.

Studio portraits of women.

Studie etude.

Traditional Spanish dress 1.

Studio portraits of women: Spain, Barcelona.

Stereo photographs: nude portraits.

Bulgarian portraits.

Photographic portraits of women: Romania and Armenia.

Photographic portraits of nude women 1.

Photographic portraits of women: Paris.

Photographic portraits of women: France.

Photographic portraits: Basque.

Women in traditional Spanish dress.

Photographic portraits.

Photographs by Wilhelm von Gloeden and Wilhelm von Plu̎shcow.

Photographic portraits: Montenegro.

Traditional Spanish dress 2.

Studio portraits: Denmark.

Traditional Norwegian dress.

Photographic portraits of nude women 2.

Photographic portraits: Denmark.

Photographicum Dalarne.

Photographs of a man with no limbs.

Photographic portraits of women: Korea.

Studio photographs of children.

Australian portraits.

USA Portland Studio, Rhyl.

Untrodden fields of anthropology.

Photographs of life in African countries.

Indian portraits 1.

Neolithic flints.

Original envelopes.

Darjeeling.

African people, Mombasa.

Russia, stereo photographs.

Algerian portraits.

Indian portraits 2.

Russia.

Egyptian portraits.

Plague, India.

Photographs by Eugène Michel.

L. Mandel postcards.

Zanzibar.

Studio portraits of nude women.

Ugandan portraits: Alfred Lobo postcards.

Photographs of Tunisian women.

African portraits: Senegal.

Portraits of women from Kashmir.

Bodybuilders.

People in traditional dress.

North African children.

Indigenous people of North America.

African portraits.

Japan: sumo wrestlers.

American women.

Madame Delait.

Viola Hamilton.

Portraits of English women.

Marguerite Agniel.

Hana Studios.

Japanese and Korean portraits.

Reutlinger.

English bodybuilders.

1912 Olympics, Stockholm.

Photographs by Marc Ferrez.

Photographs of naked women outside.

Nude portraits of Asian woman.

Andreas Daniel Reiser.

Portraits of women: North Africa.

Studio portraits: naked women.

Studio portraits of naked women.

Ceylon (Sri Lanka).

Toda People and People of Sri Lanka.

Portraits of women.

Landscapes.

Zangaki Brothers.

Felix Bonfils.

G. Lekegian & Co.

Portraits: groups and individuals (Egypt).

Group portraits: Africa & India.

A woman from Abyssinia.

Studio portraits of women: Swedish.

Dahllof Studio photographs.

Hélène Edlund.

Atelier Florman.

Sweden: postcards.

Grudmund Berg.

H. Wikander.

Hilda Dahlström.

A young boy, side view, showing a deformed skull, in a photographic studio.

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A young boy, side view, showing a deformed skull, in a photographic studio.

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