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Exposition 1900. L'Andalousie au temps des Maures, Exhibition of 1900. Andalusia in the Time of the Moors
Poster advertising one of the most popular attractions of the Exhibition of 1900 in Paris, called the "Andalousie au temps des Maures", a 5000-square-meter historical theme park in the Trocadero Gardens. The poster shows some fortune-telling gypsies, who were amongst the performers populating the ex ...
Untitled Poster
Untitled and unfilled poster showing different views. On the bottom, a wrestling scene attended by people in Arab dresses; on the side French cavalry entering a gate and beneath Moorish and Crusaders carrying flags on their horses. In the upper part a French officer jumping over a barrier with his h ...
Collection of photographs of Barbary horses
The collection, probably compiled by an unidentified French breeder, consists of images of mainly Barbary horses taken in Tunisia, including many at the stud of Sidi Tabet in Tunisia (founded in 1866), in Kairouan, El Jem and at the - unidentified - Saint Georges Stud., Title and date devised by Lib ...
Gesso panel of Alhambra Palace
Alhambra painted gesso plaque depicting a mihrab and four windows above, decorated in gilt and polychrome in the Nasrid style, with a black and white Orientalist style photograph as a background, mounted in an "Arabesque" parquetry wood frame. The photograph is a staged souvenir picture showing thre ...
Tunis. Le Collège Sadiki, Tunis. Sadiki College
Title from item, date devised by Library staff., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0089-0031, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26820420, BIB-ID: 2854312
Collection of lantern slides photographs of Palestine and Egypt
Views of Palestine and Egypt collected or taken by an amateur photographer at the beginning of the XX Century. Pictures show people, landscapes and architectures., Title and date devised by Library staff. Photographs have sometimes captions and numbers on the mount., Main Heritage Compact General, H ...
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 ...
المحمل الشريف قَاصِدًا مكة المكرمة, The Holy Mahmal on his way to the Honorable Mecca
Title fom item, date devised by Library staff. The poster is titled and tagged "GP n.115"., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.GM.P.2019.0070, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26203959, BIB-ID: 2799486
Sultan Matscemba
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled, numbered (96) and signed "C. Vincenti Dar-es-Salam" in the negative. Manuscript caption under the print "H. [?] M. Sultanen af Zanzibar" and on the verso of the print "Smedslättsgården 1957 B. Lundberg"., Main Heritage Compa ...
Zanzibar. Sultanens harem och palats, Zanzibar. Sultan's harem and palaces
The photograph, taken from the sea, actually shows the Beit al Ajaib (House of Wonders), built in 1883 and restored after the Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896. The house was primarily the Sultan's residence and was the first building in Zanzibar to have electricity, as well as the first building in East A ...
Aveny i Zanzibar, Avenue in Zanzibar
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Handwritten title and numbers (17.11) in ink on the mount and later manuscript note on the verso of the print "Smedslättsgården 1957 B. Lundberg"., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0015-0004, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26368596, BIB-ID: 2815208
"Strandvägen" i Zanzibar, Waterfront in Zanzibar
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Handwritten title and numbers (12.11) in ink on the mount and later manuscript note on the verso of the print "Smedslättsgården 1957 B. Lundberg"., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0015-0005, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26368614, BIB-ID: 2815211