UIG are delighted to announce we are now distributing the Pictures from History collection. This specialist historical library features a comprehensive archive of Asian history, art, and culture. The collection has grown since its beginnings to include contemporary images of Asia as well as history and cultural heritage content from the Middle East and Africa.
The Pictures from History collection includes more than 36,000 digitized images now available on the UIG site and through our distribution partners. Additionally, the archive offers more than 100,000 analog files of Asian history. Please ask us for help in tracking down any subjects not found in the digital collection.
Japan: The Japanese Imperial Family (1900).
Taiwan: Nanfang Ao fishing harbour across the dragon-adorned roof of the Nantien Temple (Nantien Guan), Northeast Coast.
Cambodia: Buddhist monks at Preah Vihear, an ancient Khmer temple on the Cambodia-Thailand border
Yao Lee (姚莉), also known as Yiu Lei and Miss Hue Lee, was a Chinese singer from the 1930s to the 1970s.
Vietnam: An opium smoker (left) and a tobacco smoker (right), Saigon, 1903
Nepal: Sadhus (Hindu Holy Men) visiting the Buddhist Rudra Varna Mahavihar temple, Patan, Kathmandu
Korea: Gojong, the Emperor Gwangmu (8 September 1852 – 21 January 1919)
Korea: ‘A Portrait of the Three Cho Brothers’. Anonymous, mid-Joseon, c. 1800
Vietnam: The Nine Dynastic Urns in front of the Hien Lam Pavilion, The Imperial City, The Citadel, Hue
India: Painting of Maharana Sangram Singh, Maharana of Mewar (1484-1527) on horseback, 18th century
China: ‘Long Live Chairman Mao, Long, Long Live!’. Cultural Revolution propaganda poster, c. 1978
China: Chairman Mao Zedong announces the establishment of the People’s Republic of China at Tiananmen Square, Beijing, on October 1, 1949
Japanese Imperial Army troops celebrate the capture of Hankow (Hankou), 1938
France / China: ‘Chine, le gateau des rois et des empereurs’ (‘China, the cake of kings and of emperors’). Political cartoon by Henri Meyer, ‘Le Petit Journal’, 16 January 1898
Chinese Communist Party Central Committee member Peng Zhen greeting General Secretary of the Communist Party of India (Marxist) E.M.S. Namboodiripad, Beijing, May 10, 1983
Vietnam: President Ho Chi Minh, c. 1960
Korea: The statues of Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il on Mansu Hill in Pyongyang, DPRK (North Korea), April 2012.
India: Kufic (Arabic) calligraphy at the Qutb Minar complex, Delhi
Thailand: A scene from the Ramakien (Ramayana) murals, Wat Phra Kaeo (Temple of the Emerald Buddha), Bangkok
Japan: ‘Fields of Color, Yamanashi Prefecture’. Japanese Railways, 1930s
Pictures from History are based in the historic and lovely walled city of Chiang Mai, in northern Thailand. Through their CPA Media division, Pictures from History also offers feature stories (including both photos and text) covering contemporary Asian cultural heritage and travel themes. For more information about available features, please contact UIG.
All photos: Pictures From History
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