Iranian women before Islamic Revolution in 1979

Queen Soraya of Iran who angered Iranian clergy by wearing swimming suit (1950s)

Moroccan Jewish woman in traditional Keswa ElKbira (early 1900s)

Vogue in Iran in 1970s

Revolutionaries stand together in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico in 1911

Female Viet Cong guerrilla, 1972

Iranian PM Mohammad Mosaddeq during his house arrest after being overthrown by MI6 and CIA for his nationalization of oil (1965 c.)

Salvador Dali standing on the deck of the S.S. Normandie as it docks in New York City 1936

Druze woman in Mount Lebanon, 1880-90

Elizabeth Taylor in Iran dressed as an Odalisque, 1976

Wedding in Sogndal, Norway c. 1900-10

Trotsky and Fredia Kahlo in Mexico, 1930s, before the ice-axe

A girl from North Caucasus, circa 1900s

Veteran of Napoleon's Guard, Monsieur Dreuse of 2nd Light Horse Lancers of the Guard, c. 1813-14, dressed in his uniform and regalia in 1858

Baron Nishi (he was featured in Letters from Iwo Jima) (1930s)

Palestinian family from Jerusalem in 1910

Chaldean man, Eastern Turkey 1869

Young Ottoman Woman with a Hookah, c.1870

Maharao Raja Sir Raghubir Singh Bahadur, India, 1890s

Mongolian clowns performing in Ulaanbaatar, c. 1940s

Icelandic man in late 1800s by Daniel Bruun (1856-1931)

Belly dancer Zizi Mostafa entertaining Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and her husband Aristotle Onassis at a Cairo nightclub, 1974

“Just engaged” Circa 1875

Newlyweds in Brandenburg, Germany, 1914

The American Negro Ballet company, 1937 started by a German, one of the first black ballet companies

Evelyn Brent, Actress of Jazz Era, 1920s

Dovima in evening dress by Fath, photo by Avedon, 1950

Lily Elsie as Sonia in 'The Merry Widow' - National Portrait Gallery 1907

Rupert Brooke was an English poet most renowned for his poem 'Soldier' before dying in WW1 (1913)

Ouled Nail women as photographed by French, early 1900s

Model Dovima in front of the Mosque of Mohammed Ali in Cairo, Egypt, Harper's Bazaar, 1951

Radio in Uzbekistan, 1925 by Georgi Zelma

Mathilde Kschessinskaya, olish ballerina from the noble family Krzesiński, circa 1900s

Sarajevo - Muslim women and girls in the courtyard of the Gazi Husrev Beys mosque 1940

Beach Fashion in 1923

Princess Mathilde of Bavaria, late 1890s

Sami couple from Sweden 1868-1871

Family of a Somalian traditional doctor - 1930s

Brazil - 1960s

Guests from the Uzbek SSR in Leningrad and the cruiser "Aurora" - 1965

Combing a 'queue' in China in late 1800s, a hairstyle imposed by Manchu on Han population

Hand of a rich Annamese in Saigon, Vietnam -1869

Mongolian girl as photographed by Dutch mission - 1920s

Anselm Feuerbach (1829-1880), German painter, one of the leading German classicist artists of the nineteenth century in 1873

A photograph of a slave boy in the Sultanate of Zanzibar titled "An Arab master's punishment for a slight offence." c. 1890

Civil War Union couple photographed in Kingston, NY - 1860s