Amateur photograph album compiled by a French man in the 1930s. Snapshots cover a variety of places and subjects such as excavations in Mari (modern Tell Hariri), aerial photographs of Aleppo, views of antiquities and Islamic architectures and of a chemical-industrial site. A large number of people ...

The album collects photographs taken by Dr Ahmed Mabrouk of the Egyptian Agricultural Organization during his trip to Arabia in the early 1930s. Those photographs were used to illustrate his 1939 book A Journey to Arabia, whose title page is reproduced in a photocopy included in the album. Also, 1 p ...

Typewritten Middle East diary tour of Dorothy M. Sands. Diary begins in Egypt and ends in Palestine., Title and date from item. Diary pages and postcards are pasted into a photo scrapbook. The diary comes with a 8 folios letter by the same author., Main Heritage Display General, HC.MS.ENG.00476, Man ...

Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Manuscript tilte and stamp "L. OLLIVIER PHOTOGRAPHIE 6, Rue de Seine, PARIS" - probably the distributor - on the verso of the print. The photograph is numbered 324 in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0012-0003, 2-D Graphic, It ...

Title and date devised from Library staff., Main Heritage Display General, HC.HP.2016.0089-0013, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i23689900, BIB-ID: 2523600

Title and date devised by Library staff. Photographer stamp "Editions Mars. Photo Flandrin, Casablanca" on the back of the print. Manuscript note on the verso of the print "Porteuse de pain"., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0011-0015, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i23706260, BIB-ID: 2525756

The photograph shows two women sitting on a carpet while embroidering and sewing., Title and date devised by Library staff. Photographer stamp "Editions Mars. Photo Flandrin, Casablanca" on the back of the print., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0011-0022, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2370620x, ...

Title and date devised by Library staff. Blindstamped in lower left corner "American Colony, Jerusalem"., Main Heritage Display General, HC.HP.2017.0275, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24780650, BIB-ID: 2539020

Photograph showing a young girl with a tambourine., Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Manuscript tilte on the verso of the print. The photograph is numbered 305 in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0012-0004, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i23706314, BIB-ID: 2525761

Title and date devised by library staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.GM.2016.0008, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2317366x, BIB-ID: 2452092

Sakalawi refers to Saqlawiyah Jidraniyah, one the principals straight Egyptian Arabian horses families. It literally means “the mares kicking while running”. The ancestors of this family are the three mares: Ghazala, Om Dalal (covered in this album) and Bint Yamama. The albums include portraits ...