In the 1980s, archivists cataloguing the estate of Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg opened a suitcase marked private, finding hundreds of playful photographs taken after work hours around 1895 to 1903. The pair ran a successful commercial studio that sold conventional portraits to tourists, but in private they staged images in which Høeg dressed as a man, a soldier or an arctic explorer, and friends joined in with cross-dressing. The pictures also satirised middle-class respectability. The two women were active in the women's suffrage movement, and Norwegian women won the right to vote in 1913.

Hampi is a UNESCO World Heritage Site in Karnataka, India, with more than 1,600 surviving remains spread over 4,100 hectares. It was the capital of the Vijayanagara Empire from 1336 to 1565. Travellers from Persia and Portugal described it as a prosperous, wealthy and grand city with temples, markets and farms along the Tungabhadra River. By 1500 it was estimated to be the world's second-largest city after Beijing, and probably India's richest at the time. In 1565 a coalition of Muslim sultanates defeated the Vijayanagara Empire, its capital was conquered and destroyed, and the city was left in ruins. Hampi remains a religious centre, with the active Virupaksha Temple at its heart.