Ceylon
'Buddhist Priests and Altar', Ceylon [Sri Lanka], from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Ceylon
Originally captioned 'Buddhist Priests. The robes worn are yellow'. Ceylon [Sri Lanka], from the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Ceylon
Coastline and Fishing Boat, nr Columbo'. Ceylon [Sri Lanka]. From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Ceylon
Originally captioned "The "Perahera" an annual Buddhist Festival, Ceylon." From the collection of Sir Benjamin Stone.
Chandrakant Bhatt
Chandrakant Bhatt, Priest (Tyseley). Prayer during the Hindu festival of Navratri, at the Shree Hindu Community Centre, Tyseley, Birmingham.
Photograph by Sangeeta Redgrave, 7 October 2000.
'Charity', by Bourguereau
Oil painting by William-Adolphe Bouguereau (1825-1905).
For the early Christian Church ‘Charity’ was the ‘mother of all virtues’. From at least the 16th century artists and poets depicted Charity as ...
Child looking out of window
Back-to-back and Tunnel-back Slum properties, Hockley, Birmingham.
Child Portrait, by Emma Barton
A mother’s pleasure in her child’s body was a standard feature of photographic portraiture in the late 19th century and can be found in the work of Birmingham born Emma Barton (1872-1938). She preferred ...
Children and satchels, by Lisel Haas
With growing industrialisation in the 1800s employers required a more numerate and more literate workforce than before. The work of humanitarian reformers led to laws being passed to prevent the employment ...
Children at a Market in Algeria
This photograph shows an 'Arab Market at Maison Carree, Algeria'.
Children at a Sugar Factory Estate
This photograph shows children on the estate of Colonial Co., a sugar factory in Trinidad.
Children at breakfast table
Children at Garland Day
Garland Day at Abbotsbury, Dorset, was the survival of an ancient festival of Neptune. Boats were formerly decorated with flowers and then cast into the sea as offerings.
Children at Garland Day
Garland Day at Abbotsbury, Dorset, was the survival of an ancient festival of Neptune. Boats were formerly decorated with flowers and then cast into the sea as offerings.
Children by a tree
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.
Children drying their hands
Children eating breakfast, by Lisel Haas
The children sharing breakfast in this photograph are believed to be siblings although we do not know their names. Haas was born in Monchengladbach, Germany. She was a Jewish refugee who settled in Birmingham ...
Children feeding a swan
Shenley Fields Estate, Weoley Castle, Birmingham.