Travel 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 lig ...

“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 ...