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Middle-Eastern Sketchbook
Sketchbook mainly depicting Egypt, showing fortifications and mosques (including Bulaq), the harbour of Alexandria, an antique funerary oil lamp, local flora such as palm trees. Also, three loosely inserted watercolours show bedouins in the desert, one on camelback. The rest include French rural sc ...
Personal album of a British officer in Aden
The album collects photographs taken by a British non-commissioned officer in Aden, between 1929 and 1933. Pictures cover a wide variety of subjects related to the British quarter in Aden (troops, officers, buildings) as well as artillery and ships, but also streets, mosques, buildings and people of ...
Portrait of a nobleman in hunting dress holding a falcon
This miniature portrait of a nobleman holding a falcon and remains of its prey (the bird's legs are held in the man's left hand) was part of an album of small court portraits prepared for Akbar I (1542-1605) Emperor of Hindustan. Portraits provided the emperor with a visual record of the members of ...
Pyramide de Cheffra Caire, Pyramid of Khafre in Cairo
Title from item. Date devised by library staff. The photograph is titled, signed "Zangaki" and numbered (107) in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0053-0090, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2647685x, BIB-ID: 2830244
Pyramide de Cheops, Sphynxs et les catacombes, Pyramid of Cheops, the Sphinx and the Catacomb
Title from item. Date devised by library staff. The photograph is titled, signed "Zangaki" and numbered (108) in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0053-0089, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26476836, BIB-ID: 2830243
Royal Air Maroc
Travel poster showing an airplane flying over a camel and a stylized representation of a village., Title from item, date devised by Library Staff. Poster is signed and tagged "S.te Exploit.on Et.ts De La Vasselais Imp.rs Edit.rs Paris 4, Rue Cimarosa", "Reproduction interdite. Modèle déposé"., M ...
Saadia
French motion picture poster for the movie "Saadia". The movie is based on a novel by the French writer Francis D'Autheville. Entirely filmed in Morocco, Saadia is believed to have been the first Technicolor feature to have been filmed on location., Title from item, date devised by Library staff. In ...
Salé. Medersa. Porte d'entrée. XIVe siècle, Salé. Madrasa. Entrance portal. XIV century
The photograph shows the portal of the Madrasa of Abu al-Hasan, also referred to as the Marinid Madrasa (of Salé), the medieval madrasa built in the 14th century by the Marinid sultan Abu al-Hasan (r.1331–1348 CE)., Title from item. Date devised by Libary staff., Plate n. XLVI in Les monuments ma ...
Sarcophage dit d'Alexandre, The so-called Alexander Sarcophagus
The photograph shows one of the long sides of the sarcophagus, adorned with bas-relief carvings, depicting Alexander the Great routing the Persians during the Battle of Issus., Title from item, date and author devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled and numbered (12) in the negative. Nu ...
Station Hivernale et Thermo-Minérale Hammam R'irha, Hammam Righa Winter and Thermo-Mineral Resort
Vintage travel poster promoting the thermal station of Hammam Righa, near Algiers. The poster advertises the railway and maritime connections offered by the French companies Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits and Compagnie Générale Transatlantique, as well as the accomodation, leisure activi ...
Statue de Memphis à Sahhura, Memphis statue in Saqqara
The photograph shows the statue of Ramses II statue in Memphis., Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled, signed and numbered (643) in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0053-0094, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26476873, BIB-ID: 2537352
Syriens, laissez le Liban vivre, Syrians, let Lebanon live
Political protest showing a Syrian Army tank of the Arab Deterrent Force crushing a Lebanese state dived into four entities. The Arab Deterrent Force (ADF) - Force Arabe de Dissuasion in its French translation (FAD) as per the present poster - was an intervention force created in 1976 by the Arab L ...