Collection of four full-length seated portrait of distinguished people, such as a man from Mecca - identified as Daud ibn Sulaiman Abu al-Faraj -, muezzins - one of them described as a senior muezzin member of the dynasty descendant of Abd Allah ibn al-Zubayr, the first Muslim born at Medina after t ...
Collection of four full-length portraits of women from Mecca and Jeddah. On of the portraits is attributed to the Austrian Orientalist explorer Siegfried Langer, who did extensive research in the Arabian Peninsula and Yemen and whose travel reports made valuable contributions to the study of inscrip ...
Collection of four portrait of distinguished people in Mecca. The doctor - who is likely to be the Meccan physician and photographer al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffar (active in 1880s) - and his son hold an umbrella and sit on a wooden chair, while the sayyid - identified as Abd al-Qadir al-Shaybi - holds ...
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the verso: "Editions "La Cigogne" - Exclusivité HACHETTE.Sochepress, CASABLANCA"., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0089-0030, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26819831, BIB-ID: 2854273
Title and date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned and signed in the negative but it is not legible. On the verso of the mount is pasted a second albumen print by Hippolyte Arnoux ttitled "Soldats soudaniens" (Sudanese soldiers) numbered 1281 and signed "Arnoux"., Main Heritage Com ...
Travel poster issued by the national flag-carrier airline of Lebanon Middle East Airlines, advertising Baghdad as a tourist destination. The poster is a colorful depition of an airplane flying over domes and minarets. Middle East Airlines has been associated with the British Overseas Airways Corpora ...
Title from item, date devised from Library staff. The photograph has manuscript annotations on the verso of print., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2016.0006-0004, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i26821928, BIB-ID: 2854425
The drawing, originally part of an epic Persian - probably Timurid - manuscript, is an interior scene depicting a prince holding on his knees the head of a man lying on the ground in the presence of a servant and a guardian., Title and date devised by Library staff. The miniature is pasted on an alb ...
The picture shows the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building., Slide n. 4 (vol. 2), Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.26833-0046, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2373579x, BIB-ID: 2530042
Collection of four full-length standing and seated portraits of members of families of sharifs in Mecca, namely Sharif Mohammed Shahin, 'Abdallah, son of Sharif Yahya al-'Umari and Sharif Ahmad, son of Sharif Hashim – both aged 20. The photographs were probably taken in Mecca between 1885 and 1887 ...
