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“Pictures from Mecca” is the photographic portfolio published in 1889 by the Dutch orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, as an annex to the “Pictorial Atlas of Mecca”, the Atlas accompanying the 1888 2-volume publication “Mecca”. In these texts, he reconstructs the history of the Holy ...
Famous Traditional Druggist in Qatar, Title from the item, date devised., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2018.0263-0079, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i25573391, BIB-ID: 2718284
Bisht is the traditional men’s cloak worn over the thobe, popular in the Arab world., Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The slide is titled (Arabic and English) and numbered (46)., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0372-0044, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26600067, BIB-ID: 2527011
Title from item, date devised by Library Staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.GM.P.2019.0015, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i25945518, BIB-ID: 2758667
Photograph album collecting images of El Kantara Gorges, Sahara desert, market and streets of Biskra, date palms, a Moorish cafe, a caravan, irrigation systems and prayers in the desert and two women portraits, one weaving and the other posing in a studio., El Kantara. Les Gorges -- Le Désert du Sa ...
Vintage travel issued by the shipping company "Compagnie Générale Transatlantique" advertising the route connecting Bordeaux in France and Morocco. The poster depicts local men on camels and donkeys outside a village. In the foreground some trees and a minaret., Title from item, date devised by L ...
Title and date from the item., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2018.0263-0065, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i25565643, BIB-ID: 2718019
The postcard shows the Eden Palace Hotel, which opened around 1900 in a location overlooking the Ezbekiyya Gardens (from this the old name of the street, and title of the postcard. "Genaineh" is جنينة, Egyptian Arabian for garden)., Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the verso t ...
Shepheard's Hotel was the leading hotel in Cairo and one of the most celebrated hotels in the world from the middle of the 19th century until its destruction in 1952 during the Cairo Fire., Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the verso: "The Collector - Cairo"., Main Heritage Compact ...
Public fountain in the neighbourhood Abbassia. This building is reproduced with different titles in other postcards of Cairo, either as "fountain" or "sebil", or "school" in Abbassia. The fountain, known as the Sabif of Mustafa Pasha al-Khazindar, was built in 1889 CE by the treasurer under Abbas I ...
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the verso: "Serie 647", Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0089-0069, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26825971, BIB-ID: 2854717
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the front the serial number of the postcard (169). Postally unused., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0089-0071, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26826008, BIB-ID: 2854719