Ovalyani, a nobleman from Imereti in Georgia, Russia. Photograph taken around 1890 in Tbilisi by the ethnographer Dmitri Ermakov.

Blue crane or heron, Illustration from John James Audubon’s “Birds of America” (1827). This rare book is considered one of the most expensive in the world.

Rudyard Kipling, British writer, born in Bombay in 1865, died in London in 1936. (Cropped)

A group of Syrian Bedouin women circa 1893. Photographer Adrien Bonfils.