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This street view depicts the Egyptian mahmal in Mecca. Osman Pasha, Hejaz military commander and governor (r. 1882-1886), is depicted at the center of the image. The plate was based on a photograph probably taken by the Egyptian army engineer Muhammad Sadiq Bey (1832 – 1902) on the occasion of the ...
Full-length standing portrait showing five Muslim pilgrims from the island of Ambon, from the Kai Islands and from Banda in Indonesia. On the left, a boy described as the son of a man from the island of Ambon and a woman from Mecca. The adults face forward, looking towards the camera, while the youn ...
Collection of four full-length seated portraits of Muslim pilgrims from Iraq, Zanzibar and Bahrain and Afghanistan. The photographs were probably taken in Jedda by Snouck Hurgronje between 1884 and 1885. The negatives had handwork applied. The original background has been substituted completely in o ...
Full-length seated portrait of three Muslim pilgrims from the Sultanate of Bacan, in the Maluku Islands, in modern day Indonesia. They are described as the son of the sultan - Prince Nur, as per Snouck Hurgronje's notes in his papers held at the Leiden Library -, his uncle and an imam. The men face ...
Full-length portrait of four Muslim pilgrims from Aceh, in the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. The group faces forward, looking towards the camera. The two men standing behind are described as wakils (representatives). The photograph was probably taken in Jeddah between 1884 and 1885. The men are phot ...
Full-length seated portrait of six Muslim pilgrims from Kerinci, in the island of Sumatra - one of them is described as a sheikh of the same place. They squat or sit face forward on the ground, looking towards the camera. The photograph was probably taken in Jeddah between 1884 and 1885. The men are ...
Full-length seated portrait of thirteen Mandailing Muslim pilgrimd from the island of Sumatra, Indonesia. They squat face forward on the ground, looking towards the camera. The photograph was probably taken in Jeddah between 1884 and 1885. The men are photographed in a courtyard-like space with plan ...
Collection of four full-length seated portraits of Muslim pilgrims from the Greater and Smaller Sunda Islands. The photographs were probably taken by Snouck Hurgronje in Jeddah between 1884 and 1885. The pilgrims are photographed in a courtyard-like space with foliage visible in the background. The ...
Full-length seated portrait of ten Muslim pilgrims from Martapura in Indonesia in the island of Borneo. They squat face forward, looking towards the camera. The photograph was taken by Snouck Hurgronje in Jeddah between 1884 and 1885. The men are photographed in a courtyard-like space with plants †...
Full-length seated portrait of four Muslim pilgrims from Palembang, the capital city of South Sumatra province in Indonesia. They squat face forward on the ground, looking towards the camera. The photograph was probably taken by Snouck Hurgronje in Jeddah between 1884 and 1885. The men are photograp ...
Full-length seated portrait of four pilgrims from Pontianak, the capital of Indonesian province of West Kalimantan, on the island of Borneo. The man on the left is described as an Arab from Hadhramaut (a region in South Arabia, mostly in present-day eastern Yemen, and part in Western Oman and Southe ...
Full-length portrait of four pilgrims from the Sultanate of Sambas, in modern day Indonesia, in the island of Borneo. Six of the men squat face forward, looking towards the camera. The man standing behind them is described as the wakil (representative) of the sheikh. The photograph was taken by Snou ...