This book was published in 1935 under the title "World's Greatest Collection of Strange & Secret Photographs". It has pictures from all over the world of people, rituals, costumes, weaponse, etc. The individual that created this website, Ian Macky scanned in the entire book, cleaned up the images and retyped the captions.
The tone of the commentary is dated, and uniformly racist in the extreme, often hilariously so. It reads like the patter of a carnival sideshow barker, from a time when the world was divided between "modern" Europeans and "savages". The photos were taken from the 1890s through the early 1930s, with period commentary to match. This was the era of eugenics ("the self-direction of human evolution") before it acquired a terminal taint thanks to Nazi Germany.
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