Vintage Photos-17

A beggar Woman with Child Vintage Postcard of a Hindu Woman A Brahman Woman Cooking Food   Indian Beggars with Musical Instrument and Child - 1910s   Portrait of a Young Woman Fruit Seller in the Street of Hyderadbad, India - 1928 Two Postcards - Snake Charmer and Woman Spinning Wheels Postcard of Malabar Woman with Ornaments - India Purboo Woman - Bombay (Mumbai) Indian Ethnic Women Indian Women in 1936 Nazi Germany Olympics - Cigarette Card Dr Motibai Rustomji Kapadia Public Hall for Women -1929 Postcard of Indian Woman with Nose Rings and other Ornaments French Postcard of Indian Woman - Chandannagar Bengal Postcard of Indain Women Working with Bag of Rice and Basket Postcard of Indian Woman Drawing Cow Milk Postcard of Parsee Beauty - 1910 Postcard of Vintage Indian Model in Saree Portrait of a group of women and children from Bangladesh taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860 Portrait of a group of women and children from Bangladesh taken by an unknown photographer in the early 1860s. In the 19th century the British Government sought to acquire information about the diverse races, customs, costumes and occupations of the sub-continent. The rising science of ethnology created a demand among European audiences for ‘exotic’ souvenirs of the East. This print is from a collection which features groups and individuals from across Eastern Bengal (modern Bangladesh and Assam), however the photographs were taken in and around the same temporary studio built onto the side of a European house

Seven Parsee women, grouped around a table, taken by an unknown photographer in Bombay (Mumbai) - 1860s Seven Parsee women, grouped around a table, taken by an unknown photographer in the 1860s, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. The Parsees were descendants of Persians who fled to India in the seventh and eighth centuries to escape Muslim persecution. They are Zoroastrian, the religious system commonly known as fire-worship. Their communities are concentrated in Maharashtra and Gujarat states, especially in Bombay.

Photograph of two men and two women of the Malaiyali tribe in the Shevaroy Hills in Tamil Nadu - 1860s Photograph of two men and two women of the Malaiyali tribe in the Shevaroy Hills in Tamil Nadu, southern India, taken by an unidentified photographer in the 1860s, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. The Malaiyalis, or Hill-dwellers, were a homogenous community whose subsistence and economy depended exclusively on the forests. The figures in this image are posed against the exterior of a tent. This print is one of a series commissioned by the Government of India in the late 19th century in an attempt to gather information about the different racial groups on the sub-continent. Material was submitted by professional and amateur photographers working in studios and in the field; this photograph was attributed to the Madras School of Industrial Arts, an important training centre for photographers in the area, established in 1850.

Two Women of the Mahar Caste - 1870 Seated carte-de-visite portrait of two women of the Mahar caste, one of a series of prints of ethnic types and occupations taken by Bourne and Shepherd in the early 1870s. The caste name, lightly pencilled in, appears to read Mhar. Mahar, are a caste-cluster, or group of many endogamous castes, living chiefly in Maharashtra state, and in adjoining states. Traditionally the Mahar caste came from the lowest group of the Hindu caste system but they have witnessed immense social mobility after Indian independence. The great social reformer Dr. B.R. Ambedkar was from the Mahar caste and championed a fight against the oppression of the Hindu caste system.

Studio portrait of five women wearing jewellery, at Madras in Tamil Nadu - 1870s Full-length studio portrait of five women wearing jewellery, at Madras in Tamil Nadu, taken in c. 1870s, from the Archaeological Survey of India Collections. This photograph is attributed to The Madras School of Industrial Arts which was an important training centre for photographers in the area, established in 1850. The two girls standing behind the three seated women are wearing the jewelled head-dress traditionally worn at marriage ceremonies or at 'rites of passage' ceremonies performed when a girl reaches puberty.