Holiday snaps before Instagram! Album of pictures capturing a round-the-world trip more than 120 years ago is brought to life with colour
- Stunning photos were captured by American photographer William Henry Jackson between 1894 and 1896
- He compiled the images as he travelled the globe on an expedition with the World Transport Commission
- Colourised images show the Sphinx at Giza in Egypt, the Canal de la Viga in Mexico City and a palace in China
An album of pictures capturing a round-the-world trip more than 120 years ago has been brought to life with colour.
Images taken by American photographer William Henry Jackson between 1894 and 1896 show the Sphinx at Giza in Egypt, an Emperor's Palace in China, and the Canal de la Viga in Mexico City.
Jackson was asked to accompany the World Transport Commission on a trip to document and photograph scenery from around the globe. Departing from New York in September 1894, the group visited more than 40 countries across Europe, Africa, the Far East, South and Central America and the Middle East.
His photos captured a railway station in India, Japanese men manning a train in Japan and a colourful street scene from 1890s Hong Kong.
Jackson was a well-respected painter and photographer throughout the 1870s, 80s and 90s in America. He gained a name for himself photographing the American West, before being asked in 1870 to join the American geological survey of Yellowstone National Park, producing some of the first ever images of its stunning scenery.
Following his death in 1942 at the age of 99, Mount Jackson in Yellowstone was named in his honour.
An album of pictures capturing a round-the-world trip more than 120 years ago has been brought to life with colour. One of the pictures taken by American photographer William Henry Jackson shows men on camel-back by the Great Pyramids and Sphinx of Giza in Egypt in 1895
Images taken by American photographer William Henry Jackson between 1894 and 1896 also show a gateway leading to an Emperor's Palace in China
Jackson was asked to accompany the World Transport Commission on a trip to document and photograph scenery from around the world. This image shows the Canal de la Viga in Mexico City between 1894 and 1896
Departing from New York in September 1894, the group visited more than 40 countries across Europe, Africa, the Far East, South and Central America and the Middle East. This image shows Maori boys in New Zealand bathing outdoors in 1895
Members of the World Transportation Commission are pictured sitting inside their private railway car and enjoying a drink in an unknown location in 1895. Jackson was a well-respected painter and photographer throughout the 1870s, 80s and 90s in America
Their journey took them to China where William Henry Jackson was able to capture this image of men and women on board a traditional houseboat in 1895
During his travels from 1894 to 1896, William Henry Jackson captured this image of two houseboats, one displaying the US flag
Jackson captured street scenes in India, including this image of men carrying boxes of tea beside the Globe Hotel in 1895
Another of his images, brought to life with colour, shows men, women and children standing beside a train at a station in India in 1895
Jackson was a well-respected painter and photographer throughout the 1870s, 80s and 90s in America. One of his pictures, taken in 1895 in an unknown location, shows a woman sitting in a wheelbarrow being pushed by a man
The pictures have been given a new lease of life after being transformed from black and white into colour. A street scene in China shows men and women going about their daily lives
A Maori family are pictured in a home in New Zealand in 1985 during William Henry Jackson's tour of the world
As well as Europe, Africa and the Far East, Jackson also visited Central America where he captured this image of the Gran Hotel Inglaterra in Habana, Cuba
Jackson gained a name for himself photographing the American West, before joining the World Transport Commission on a trip around the globe. Pictured is another image taken during his journey showing men in an unknown location
Five men are pictured on a railroad locomotive in Japan during William Henry Jackson's epic trip around the world between 1894 and 1896
One of his stunning images, transformed with colour, shows the wreck of the U.S.S. Maine in Havana Harbor, Cuba
Jackson also captured this image of three Korean men posing on the deck of a ship in 1895 as he toured the world with his colleagues
A man in a straw hat stands on a Buddhist idol at the ruins of Borobudur, a ninth-century Mahayana Buddhist temple in Magelang, Central Java
This stunning image shows a Goldi shaman priest and his assistant. Also known as Nanai people, they have traditionally lived in North East China and South East Russia
Another of Jackson's stunning images, transformed from black and white, shows a horse and cart in Havana, the capital of Cuba
Men from the Goldi people are pictured with a dog sled on an iced-over Amur River in frozen south eastern Russia in 1895
William Henry Jackson was an American painter, Civil War veteran, geological survey photographer and an explorer famous for his images of the American West. Pictured is another of the images he captured during his travels around the world
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