PFH1172721: China: Walking street between the East and West pagodas (Xisi Ta or West Pagoda in background) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172734: China: Qiongzhu Si (Bamboo Temple), northwest of Kunming / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172739: China: Some of sculptor Li Guangxiu's unusual arhat statues, Qiongzhu Si (Bamboo Temple), northwest of Kunming / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172741: China: Some of sculptor Li Guangxiu's unusual arhat statues, Qiongzhu Si (Bamboo Temple), northwest of Kunming / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172752: China: Man receiving a pedicure, Beijing, late Qing Dynasty, c. 1870-90 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172761: Japan: The actor Nakamura Utaemon III playing Ichikawa Gomeon, by Gigado Ashiyuki (1826) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172764: Japan: Portrait of a Beauty (Bijinga) by Kitagawa Chikanobu / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172768: Iran: Page from an illuminated 1604 copy of Tuhfat al-Iraqayn by Afzal al-Din Shirvani Khaqani (1126-1198) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172770: Iran: Page from an illuminated 1604 copy of Tuhfat al-Iraqayn by Afzal al-Din Shirvani Khaqani (1126-1198) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172784: Bangladesh: A young Marma woman smoking a pipe, c.1947 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172813: China: Bridge leading to the octagonal Qing-era pavilion, Yuantong Si (Yuantong Temple), Kunming, Yunnan Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172822: China: A woman plucks a guzheng, the Naxi (Nakhi) Folk Orchestra, Naxi Orchestra Hall, Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172832: China: A man plays an erhu, the Naxi (Nakhi) Folk Orchestra, Naxi Orchestra Hall, Lijiang Old Town, Yunnan Province / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172843: Indonesia: Javanese classical dancer (c.1925) by Tyra Kleen (1874-1951) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172852: Japan: Four young women at their toilette, hand-tinted photograph c. 1895, probably by T. Enami, Enami Nobukuni (1859-1929) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172856: Vietnam / USA: A poster demanding the return of Prisoners of War (POW) and combatants Missing in Action (MIA) supposedly held in Vietnam after the American defeat in 1975 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172862: Indonesia: Balinese legong dancer (1928) / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172875: Vietnam: Tea picker at a tea plantation near Thanh Son, Phu Tho Province, northwest Vietnam / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172885: Vietnam: Tea picker at a tea plantation near Thanh Son, Phu Tho Province, northwest Vietnam / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172891: Vietnam: Nguyen Phuc Canh (1780–1801), also known as Prince Canh, eldest son of the Vietnamese Prince Nguyen Phuc Anh, the future Emperor Gia Long. Painted in Paris by Mauperin, 1787 / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172912: Vietnam: Coffee bushes at Khe Sanh, central Vietnam / Bridgeman Images

PFH1172917: Vietnam: Coffee plantations, Dak Song, near Buon Ma Thuot, Central Highlands / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680475: Marshal Ney, 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680499: Entreprise space shuttle fligh, 1977 (photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680544: Lenin writing speech for the congress of the Communist International, 1921 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680558: Space Shuttle Columbiais poised to begin rollout from the Vehicle Assembly , 2003 (photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680586: Lenin's speech for Stepan Razin statue in Moscow, 1919 (b/w photo) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680628: Sir Henry Morton Stanley c. 1880 (lithograph) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680634: Arrest of Jean Charles Pichegru who plotted against Bonaparte, 1803 (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680635: Jacob Brown, 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680636: Charles Francois Antoine Lallemand, 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680639: Gebhard Leberecht von Blucher, 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680640: Georg Chapman Caldwell, 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680654: Jacob Brown, 19th century (engraving) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680663: Clermont Ferrand railway station in the 40's (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

PVD1680664: View of of Perpignan and mount Canigou, c.1950s (b/w photo), Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images