Revisit the 19th-century global imaginary. Explore the photographs and travelogues that mirrored the era of Verne’s Phileas Fogg, capturing the distant wonders of a world suddenly within reach.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Jules Verne: Around the World in Eighty Days - What would Phileas Fogg and Passepartout have seen in 1872? |
| Introduction |
| 2 | Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers |
| Grand Tour |
| 3 | Photographers on the Grand Tour |
| 4 | Édouard Baldus: Les chemins de fer du Nord. Ligne de Paris à Boulogne. Vues photographiques |
| 5 | Édouard Baldus: Chemins de fer de Paris à Lyon et à la Méditerranée (1860s) |
| Orientalism |
| 6 | Orientalism |
| Egypt |
| 7 | Introduction to photography in Egypt |
| 8 | Egypt: Shepheard's Hotel / Hotel Shepherd |
| 9 | Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Egypt (1862) |
| 10 | William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples (1876) |
| 11 | Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt |
| 12 | Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids |
| 13 | Suez Canal (1859-1869) |
| India |
| 14 | Introduction to photography in India |
| 15 | Baron Alexis Aime de LaGrange: Photographies de l'Indie Anglais (1851) |
| 16 | Marie Théophile Louis Rousselet: India (1863-1868) |
| 17 | Samuel Bourne: Northern India and the Himalayas (1863-1870) |
| 18 | James Fergusson: Illustrations of Various Styles of Indian Architecture (1869) |
| 19 | J. Forbes Watson & John William Kaye (eds.): The People of India (1868-1872) |
| 20 | William Johnson & William Henderson: The Oriental races and tribes, residents and visitors of Bombay (published 1863-1866) |
| 21 | William J. Johnson: Photographs of Western India. Volume I. Costumes and Characters (ca. 1855-1862) |
| 22 | Portrait: Royalty: The ruling class of the Indian subcontinent |
| The Far East |
| 23 | The Far East (1870-1878) |
| Hong Kong |
| 24 | Introduction to photography in Hong Kong |
| 25 | John Thomson: Chinese photographers on Queen's Road, Hong Kong (1875) |
| 26 | John Thomson: A Chinese portrait artist, Hong Kong |
| 27 | China: Typhoon (September 1874) |
| China |
| 28 | Introduction to photography in China |
| 29 | Chinese |
| 30 | Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Portraits from China |
| 31 | John Thomson: Illustrations of China and Its People (1873-1874) |
| 32 | John Thomson: China, cartes de visite (ca 1870) |
| 33 | Lai Afong: Banker's Glen, Yuen-foo River |
| Japan |
| 34 | Introduction to photography in Japan |
| 35 | Royal family of Japan |
| 36 | Japanese |
| 37 | Japanese ambrotypes |
| 38 | Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Japan: Places |
| 39 | Baron Raimund von Stillfried: Japan: Portraits |
| 40 | Kusakabe Kimbei: Japan: Portraits |
| 41 | Nineteenth century Japanese artists and colourists |
| 42 | Samurai |
| 43 | Sumo wrestlers |
| 44 | Japanese men with tattoos |
| 45 | Geishas |
| 46 | Japanese women sleeping |
| 47 | Sedan chairs (kago) in Japan |
| USA - Introduction |
| 48 | Introduction to photography in California |
| USA - Land of natural wonders |
| 49 | California: Yosemite Valley |
| USA - Railways |
| 50 | Alexander Gardner and others: Across the continent on the Kansas Pacific Railroad |
| 51 | William Henry Jackson: Railways |
| 52 | John Carbutt: Union Pacific Rail Road, Excursion to the 100th Meridian (October 1866) |
| 53 | A.J. Russell: Golden Spike Ceremony, Promontory Point, Utah (10 May 1869) |
| 54 | Wyoming: Dale Creek Crossing (1868-1901) |
| USA - Surveys |
| 55 | Landscape surveys of the American West |
| 56 | Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel - Clarence King (1867-1869) |
| 57 | U.S. Geological and Geographical Survey - Ferdinand V. Hayden (1867-1869) |
| 58 | Survey west of the 100th Parallel - George Montague Wheeler (1869-1879) |
| 59 | Timothy O'Sullivan: Explorations and Surveys West of the 100th Meridian (1871-1874) |
| 60 | River explorations - John Wesley Powell (1869-1872) |
| USA - Native Americans |
| 61 | Native Americans |
| 62 | Cabinet cards: Ethnic: Native Americans |
| 63 | Alexander Gardner: Ogallalla Sioux (May, 1872) |
| 64 | William Henry Jackson: Portraits of American Indians (1876) |
| 65 | Prince Roland Napoléon Bonaparte: Collection anthropologique du Prince Roland Bonaparte, Peaux Rouges (before 1884) |
