China (Nankin) and France (Furansu), from the series Pictures of People from Foreign Countries (Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga)

by Hiroshige Utagawa, 1826?-1869, Japanese artist. 1860. Japanese print shows three spectators viewing an unseen object or event: a woman holding a drinking vessel sits beside a ma...

The amateur photographer Karin Krantz (Jansson) was born in Uppsala in 1904. The family lived in a service dwelling at Ångkvarn’s yeast factory, where the father was a machinist. K...

The amateur photographer Karin Krantz (Jansson) was born in Uppsala in 1904. The family lived in a service dwelling at Ångkvarn’s yeast factory, where the father was a machinist. K...

In Henry Tayali’s graphics meet at the Africa that fights for independence, but also the difficulties that people are tamped with in free Africa’s new big cities. Tayali is a comm...

Ragnar Ljungman was born in Gothenburg on 1 November 1883. Father Knut Elof Ljungman, a civil engineer and professor at the Technical University, was born in Valla on Tjörn in 1851...