written in the back of the photograph: 1st private hospital, also used as student hostel for visiting schools. Title and date from the item. Main... Show morewritten in the back of the photograph: 1st private hospital, also used as student hostel for visiting schools. Title and date from the item. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0264-0034 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i2560143x BIB-ID: 2719807 Show less
written in the back of the photograph: 1st private hospital, also used as student hostel for visiting schools. Title and date from the item. Main... Show morewritten in the back of the photograph: 1st private hospital, also used as student hostel for visiting schools. Title and date from the item. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0264-0035 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25601465 BIB-ID: 2719809 Show less
written in the back of the photograph: 1st private hospital, also used as student hostel for visiting schools. Title and date from the item. Main... Show morewritten in the back of the photograph: 1st private hospital, also used as student hostel for visiting schools. Title and date from the item. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0264-0036 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25601520 BIB-ID: 2719811 Show less
Title and date from the item. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0264-0032 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25601179 BIB-ID: 2719785 Show moreTitle and date from the item. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0264-0032 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25601179 BIB-ID: 2719785 Show less
written in the back of the photograph: 1st private hospital, also used as student hostel for visiting schools. Title and date from the item. Main... Show morewritten in the back of the photograph: 1st private hospital, also used as student hostel for visiting schools. Title and date from the item. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0264-0033 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25601180 BIB-ID: 2719786 Show less
Women, Women--Portraits, Brides--Islamic clothing and dress, Brides--Islamic clothing and dress--Mecca (Saudi Arabia), Eunuchs, Children, Household employees, Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Jiddah (Saudi Arabia)
Collection of four full-length portraits of women from Mecca and Jeddah. On of the portraits is attributed to the Austrian Orientalist explorer... Show moreCollection of four full-length portraits of women from Mecca and Jeddah. On of the portraits is attributed to the Austrian Orientalist explorer Siegfried Langer, who did extensive research in the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen and whose travel reports made valuable contributions to the study of inscriptions in Southern Arabia. The remaining photographs were taken in Mecca and Jeddah, between 1885 and 1887, by Snouck Hurgronje and by the Meccan doctor and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s). The negatives had handwork applied. Two of the photographs were taken in a courtyard-like space with foliage and pots visible in the background. Title and date from item. Plate no. 25 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889). The plate is numbered (XXV) and each collotype is titled in German under the image. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.02074-0025 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23465104 BIB-ID: 2831628 Show less