Overview of a crowded marketplace. People and donkeys are gathered in a clearing, some carrying large crates with plants in them. Title from item,... Show moreOverview of a crowded marketplace. People and donkeys are gathered in a clearing, some carrying large crates with plants in them. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (93) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0080 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26475030 BIB-ID: 2830178 Show less
Public relationsPan American Airways Corporation, Tourism, Tourism--Lebanon--20th Century, Air travel, Air travel--1950-1960
Travel poster issued for the Pan American Airways Corporation. advertising Beirut and Lebanon as a tourist destination. The poster shows a portrait... Show moreTravel poster issued for the Pan American Airways Corporation. advertising Beirut and Lebanon as a tourist destination. The poster shows a portrait of a man in traditional dress on a blue-painted background describing various touristic destinations in Lebanon such as Baalbeck temple ruins, winter sports, seaside activities and a couple enjoying dinner. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Tagged "Litho in USA. T-38" Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.P.2019.0016 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i2594552x BIB-ID: 2758668 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Manuscript caption on the mount. The print is signed "A. Beato" in the negative. Main Heritage... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. Manuscript caption on the mount. The print is signed "A. Beato" in the negative. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0021 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26473513 BIB-ID: 2830069 Show less
Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages, Muslim pilgrims and pilgrimages--Portraits, Beggars, Dervishes, Musical instruments, Musical instruments--Bukhoro (Uzbekistan), Percussion instruments, Percussion instruments--Yemen (Arab Republic)
Collection of four full-length seated portraits of Muslim pilgrims and dervishes. The photographs were probably taken by Snouck Hurgronje in Jedda... Show moreCollection of four full-length seated portraits of Muslim pilgrims and dervishes. The photographs were probably taken by Snouck Hurgronje in Jedda between 1884 and 1885. The negatives had handwork applied. In some images the original backgrounds have been substituted completely, whereas in one a courtyard-like space, with foliage and a window, fronted by bars is visible in the background. Title and date from item. Plate no. 22 in Bilder-Atlas zu Mekka (Haag : Martinus Nijhoff, 1888-1889). The plate is numbered (XXII) and titled in German under each image. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.02074-0022 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26516998 BIB-ID: 2831609 Show less
Title from item. Date devised by library staff. The photograph is titled, signed "P.Z." and numbered (15,107). Number in ink on the mount (74). Main... Show moreTitle from item. Date devised by library staff. The photograph is titled, signed "P.Z." and numbered (15,107). Number in ink on the mount (74). Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0112 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26390218 BIB-ID: 2818052 Show less
Bibby Line Limited, Tourism, Tourism--Middle East--20th Century, Ocean liners, Ocean liners--British--20th Century, Ships, Harbors, Lighthouses
Travel poster promoting cruises of the British maritime company "Bibby Line" to the sunshine destinations of the Mediterranean (Marseilles, Egypt,... Show moreTravel poster promoting cruises of the British maritime company "Bibby Line" to the sunshine destinations of the Mediterranean (Marseilles, Egypt, and Sudan), Ceylon (now Sri Lanka), Southern India and Burma (now Myanmar). Art Deco graphics depicts a cruise ship leaving port passing between two lighthouses at the entrance of a harbor. Two traditional Indian-Ocean sailing vessels are crossing its path, all against the clear sea and blue sky. Title from item, date devised by Library Staff. Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.P.2019.0031 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25953047 BIB-ID: 2758975 Show less
Muslim pilgrims and prilgrimages, Muslim pilgrims and prilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--Photographs
“Pictures from Mecca” is the photographic portfolio published in 1889 by the Dutch orientalist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, as an annex to the ... Show more“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 City and on the origins of Islam, early traditions and practices, and the first Islamic communities. The second volume, translated into English in 1931 as “Mecca in the Latter Part of the 19th Century”, contains many details of daily life in Islamic culture and deals with the Indonesian Muslim colony at Mecca. While serving as a lecturer at the University of Leiden between 1880 and 1889, Snouck Hurgronje visited Arabia from 1884 to 1885, stopping at Mecca and he was the first Western to take photographs of the Holy City. From 1890 to 1906 Snouck Hurgronje was professor of Arabic at Batavia, Java, and, as a government adviser, he originated and developed the Dutch colonial policy toward Islam. Though Snouck Hurgronje remained a colonial adviser until 1933, he returned in 1906 to the Netherlands, where he was professor of Arabic and Islamic institutions at the University of Leiden until his death. The volume contains 20 collotype prints pasted onto card and includes a panoramic view of the Holy City, images of places related to the hajj (Mina valley, Mount Arafat), as well as a picture of the Ibn Abbas Mosque in Taif. Snouck Hurgronje decided to publish an annex to his first photographic portfolio after receiving a letter with new photographs from his doctor in Mecca, whom he taught the art of photography. The photographs had descriptions in Arabic and were signed “Photography by al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar, doctor in Mecca”. Al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) was an Indian physician as a renowned Meccan photographer can be found in the “Journal de Voyages” (1895) by French author Gustave Regelsperger (1856 – 1940) and most importantly in the account published in 1895 “The Guide to the Hajj” by the Egyptian army engineer Muhammad Sadiq Bey (1832 – 1902), who took the first photographs of Medina in 1861 and Mecca between 1880 and 1881 and whose photographs were included in Snouck’s “Pictorial Atlas of Mecca”. In his account, the Egyptian military engineer describes ʻAbd al-Ghaffar Efendi as a famous Indian doctor and photographer. Most of the scholars agree that the photographs reproduced in this portfolio were taken by al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar and that Snouck, both for aesthetic and scientific reasons, erased the name of the person who had taken the pictures as well as the pictures’ titles and headings. Title and date from item. Prints are mounted on 18 sheets loose in original red gilt cloth portfolio as issued, complete with the oft-lacking half-title, list of plates, title and preface. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0273 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24545612 BIB-ID: 2622576 C.E.S. Gavin with F.H.S. Allen, Mecca: The First Photographs (Cambridge, MA, 1981); William Facey with Gillian Grant, Saudi Arabia by the first photographers (London: Stacey International, 1996); Badr El-Hage, “The First Non-Arab Photographers of the Hijaz”, Saudi Arabia: Caught in Time 1861-1939 (Reading: Garnet Publishing Ltd., 1997); Claude W. Sui, “Travel to the Holy Land and Photography in the Nineteenth Century”, To the Holy Lands: pilgrimage centres from Mecca and Medina to Jerusalem; photographs of the 19th century from the collections of the Reiss-Engelhorn Museums, Mannheim (Munich; Berlin; London; New York: Prestel, 2008); Durkje van der Wal, Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje: The First Western Photographer in Mecca 1884-1885 (Amsterdam: Manfred & Hanna Heiting Fund, Rijksmuseum, 2011). See also Anna Canby Monk "From the Individual to the Archetypal: Abd al-Ghaffārs Edited Photographic Portraits" Show less
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 ... Show moreFamous 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 Show less
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... Show moreBisht 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 Show less
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 Show moreTitle 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 Show less
Photograph album collecting images of El Kantara Gorges, Sahara desert, market and streets of Biskra, date palms, a Moorish cafe, a caravan,... Show morePhotograph 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 Sahara. Vue prise du Col de Sfa -- Biskra. Le Marché -- Biskra. Rue des Ouled Naïls -- Sahara Algérien. Palmiers Régime de Dattes -- Vieux Biskra. Une Rue -- Sahara Algérien. Un Café Maure -- Sahara Algérien. Caravane du Caïd Ben-Ganah -- Sahara Algérien. La Prière -- Sahara Algérien. Gourbi de Kamès, Femme tissant -- Sahara Algérien. Kattara, Puits à Irrigation aux Zibans -- Sahara Algérien. Femme des Ouled Naïls Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Title gilt-lettered in gold on the red cover. Each photograph - generally 18,5 x 12 cm - has typescript captions on the mount. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0220 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24956764 BIB-ID: 2528549 Show less
Public relationsCompagnie générale transatlantique, Tourism, Tourism--Morocco--20th Century, Ocean liners, Ocean liners--French--20th Century
Vintage travel issued by the shipping company "Compagnie Générale Transatlantique" advertising the route connecting Bordeaux in France and Morocco... Show moreVintage 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 Library staff. The poster is signed and inscribed "Crété-Corbeil". Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.P.2019.0169 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i2622172x BIB-ID: 2802323 Show less
Title and date from the item. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0263-0065 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25565643 BIB-ID: 2718019 Show moreTitle and date from the item. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2018.0263-0065 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i25565643 BIB-ID: 2718019 Show less
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... Show moreThe 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 the logo of German publisher and "Cai[ro] 81". Manuscript annotation on the recto "I stayed in this hotel [Eden Palace Hotel] in 1915" and on the verso of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0089-0061 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i2682582x BIB-ID: 2854700 Show less
Shepheard's Hotel (Cairo, Egypt), Architecture, Modern, Architecture, Modern--Cairo (Egypt), Hotels
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... Show moreShepheard'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 General HC.HP.2016.0089-0060 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26825806 BIB-ID: 2854698 Show less
Public fountain in the neighbourhood Abbassia. This building is reproduced with different titles in other postcards of Cairo, either as "fountain"... Show morePublic 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 of Egypt. The fountain, located in Masoud Street in Abdou Pasha, Abbassia, was demolished in 1950. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the verso: "N. 76 - Lichtenstern & Harari" and "Union Postale Universelle. Egypte. Carte Postale - التحاد البوستة العام مصر تذكرة بوستة ". Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0089-0055 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26825752 BIB-ID: 2854693 Show less
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:... Show moreTitle 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 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the front the serial number of the postcard (169). Postally unused. Main Heritage Compact General ... Show moreTitle 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 Show less
Postcard showing the Kursaal Casino and Music Hall, which was on Alfi Bey Street in the Ezbekiyya district of Cairo. Title from item, date devised... Show morePostcard showing the Kursaal Casino and Music Hall, which was on Alfi Bey Street in the Ezbekiyya district of Cairo. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the verso: "Serie 645. Edit.The Cairo Post-Card Trust - Ph. N. 831".Postally unused. Manuscript notes on the verso. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0089-0072 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26826021 BIB-ID: 2854721 Show less
Postacard showing Kamel Sedki Street, today El Faggala. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the verso: "Nr. 3." and the stamp of the... Show morePostacard showing Kamel Sedki Street, today El Faggala. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the verso: "Nr. 3." and the stamp of the travel agent "Alf. H. Naudi & C., Ship Chandler & Stevedores. Port Said (Egypt)". Postally used. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0089-0068 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i2682596x BIB-ID: 2854715 Show less