Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Egypt--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Portraits, People
The photograph portrays two sāīs (سايس). This traditional term refers to those handymen workers who were originally responsible for the care of... Show moreThe photograph portrays two sāīs (سايس). This traditional term refers to those handymen workers who were originally responsible for the care of horses and donkeys but that were also employed as guards and messengers. The men are photographed in a typical portrait pose in front of an oriel window (Mashrabiya). Title from recto, date devised. The photograph is signed and numbered on the negative: J. P. Sebah, 288. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0037 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24446749 BIB-ID: 2537219 Show less
Zouaves, Zouaves--Algeria, People, Armies, Colonial, Armies, Colonial--France--Algeria, History
Photograph album complied by a French military officer, possibly a member of the 1st or 10th Zouaves battalion, based in Algeria at the end of the... Show morePhotograph album complied by a French military officer, possibly a member of the 1st or 10th Zouaves battalion, based in Algeria at the end of the 19th century. The album includes amateur photographs – possibly taken by the compiler himself –, photographs taken by professional studios such as the one of Jean Geiser (active in Algiers at the end of the 19th century), but also postcards and other photomechanical prints taken from books and magazines. Photographs are mainly related to Algeria and include views of Bougie [today Bejaïa], Toudja, Lambessa [today Tazoult-Lambèse], Algiers, the gorges of Palestro [today Lakhdaria], and the Touggourt oasis. Among the subjects of the picture, a carnival parade in Algiers, the Bab El Kantra Bridge in Constantine, a military station in Dirah equipped with a telescope, the Azib of the Ben Ali Cherif family, Bab al-Bahr in Bejaïa, the boulevard Admiral Pierre in Algiers, the summer palace of the Governor General, a zawiya, Roman remains, markets, streets, mills, Ramadan prayers and ports. Also, local people, vendors, family portraits and portraits of Zouaves battalions.The album includes views of cities, monuments and landscapes in France and Italy. Title and date devised by Library staff. Titled "Album" in gilt golden letters on the cover. Photographs size 10 x 16 cm. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2014.0033 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i22677951 BIB-ID: 2409645 Show less
Donkeys, People, People--Egypt--Portaits, Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Egypt--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Portraits
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The print is captioned, numbered (735) and signed "Bonfils" in the negative. Main Heritage Display... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The print is captioned, numbered (735) and signed "Bonfils" in the negative. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0053-0070 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26481984 BIB-ID: 2830543 Show less
Agriculture, Agriculture--Egypt, People, People--Egypt--Portaits, Peasants, Peasants--Egypt--Portaits, Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Egypt--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Portraits
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The print is captioned, numbered (628) and signed "Bonfils" in the negative. Main Heritage Display... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The print is captioned, numbered (628) and signed "Bonfils" in the negative. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0053-0072 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26482009 BIB-ID: 2830547 Show less
Water carriers, Water carriers--Egypt--Portrait photographs, Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Egypt--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Portraits, People
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (591) and signed "Bonfils" in the negative. Main Heritage... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (591) and signed "Bonfils" in the negative. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0053-0071 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26481686 BIB-ID: 2830513 Show less
Photograph taken with the Express Détective Nadar camera, one of the first portable photographic tools, by the French photographer Paul Nadar who,... Show morePhotograph taken with the Express Détective Nadar camera, one of the first portable photographic tools, by the French photographer Paul Nadar who, between August and November 1890, embarked on a trip across Europe and Asia to Turkestan following the ancient silk route. He acted as an early photojournalist, documenting his travels and photographing sites as diverse as bazaars, mosques, and desert landscapes. Title and date devised by Library staff. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2013.0010 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i21977914 BIB-ID: 2352536 See Hannavy, J. (2008). Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography. New York: Routledge, p. 975. Show less
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... Show moreTitle 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.2013.0015-0006 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26369199 BIB-ID: 2815255 Show less
The album collects photographs by the major photographers active in the Middle East at the end of the XIX century. Images include: statues and art... Show moreThe album collects photographs by the major photographers active in the Middle East at the end of the XIX century. Images include: statues and art crafts from the Museum of Gizah; Egyptian antiquities (pyramids, temples, hieroglyphics); Islamic architectures in Cairo (tombs, the Citadel, mosques and mashrabiyas); views of the streets of Cairo (hotels and bazaars); staged portraits of local people (artisans, women, peasants and musicians); the Nile river with traditional boats and ports. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Album with vellum-bound, in golden letter and ornaments. The album consists of 24 pages. Prints are pasted on both sides. On the paste-down there is a scratched ex libris "Metropolitan Museum of Art. [illegible] of the Costume Institute. [illegible] Art Worker's Club". Manuscript note "Sold and discarted in 1960s). Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0096 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26485229 BIB-ID: 2830659 Show less
The photograph shows two men in front of a hut built with harvested material. Title and date devised. Stamped on verso "M. Catalanotti Tunisia". Main... Show moreThe photograph shows two men in front of a hut built with harvested material. Title and date devised. Stamped on verso "M. Catalanotti Tunisia". Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0050 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24466955 BIB-ID: 2537233 Catalanotti was early resident photographer in Tunis. Show less
Backyard gardens, Backyard gardens--Photographs, People
Title and date devised. Photographer unidentified. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0044 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24447274 BIB-ID: 2537226 Show moreTitle and date devised. Photographer unidentified. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0044 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24447274 BIB-ID: 2537226 Show less
The photograph shows three men taking care of an horse in front of an arch. Title and date devised. Stamped on verso "M. Catalanotti Tunisia". Main... Show moreThe photograph shows three men taking care of an horse in front of an arch. Title and date devised. Stamped on verso "M. Catalanotti Tunisia". Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0040 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24446804 BIB-ID: 2537222 Catalanotti was early resident photographer in Tunis. Show less
Water carriers, Water carriers--Tunisia--1800-1900, People
The photograph shows three persons, two men and one woman, with clay water pots and goatskins. Title and date devised. Stamped on verso "M.... Show moreThe photograph shows three persons, two men and one woman, with clay water pots and goatskins. Title and date devised. Stamped on verso "M. Catalanotti Tunisia". Catalanotti was early resident photographer in Tunis. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2017.0041 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24446920 BIB-ID: 2537223 Show less
The photograph shows a group of Bedouins in traditional clothes in front of a tent. Title and date devised. Photographer unidentified. Main Heritage... Show moreThe photograph shows a group of Bedouins in traditional clothes in front of a tent. Title and date devised. Photographer unidentified. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0042 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24447122 BIB-ID: 2537224 Show less
Water harvesting, Water harvesting--Egypt--Photographs, People
The photograph shows veiled women and children collecting water and a men on camelback. In the background palms and a herd of sheep. The photographs... Show moreThe photograph shows veiled women and children collecting water and a men on camelback. In the background palms and a herd of sheep. The photographs is signed, numbered (170) and titled in the negative. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0048 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24450844 BIB-ID: 2537231 "The Zangaki brothers produced some of the finest images of late Victorian Egypt, yet so little is known about them. They were probably Greek Cypriots, although it has been suggested they may have come from Crete. Nothing is known of them before their first photographs were published in Egypt in the late 1870s, and even the names of the brothers themselves is unknown. It has been suggested their initials were C and G, and indeed early 20th century photographic postcards bearing the name C Zangaki have been located. Their photographs, however, were simply identified as Zangaki, the letter Z being frequently mistaken for a stylized L in several books, resulting in their work being incorrectly ascribed to Langaki. Indeed, until relatively recently, there was assumed to be one photographer with the name of A Zangaki until the discovery of a signboard bearing the legend Adelphoi Zangaki confirmed that the images were the work of brothers. While their GreekCypriot or Cretanroots are confirmed, the horse-drawn darkroom van with which they toured the length of the Nile bore the legend Zangaki Brothers, and to further confuse matters, the majority of their images are titled (in the negatives) in French. Amongst many fine images are photographs taken after the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882, and some eloquent commentaries on the popularity of the Grand Tour of Egypt in the 1880s." See Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography / John Hannavy ed., Routledge, New York, 2008, p. 1521. Show less
Bedouins, Bedouins--Tunisia--Portraits, Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Tunisia--Portraits, People
The photograph shows a group of Bedouins in traditional clothes on horseback in front of a tent. Title from recto, date devised. The photograph is... Show moreThe photograph shows a group of Bedouins in traditional clothes on horseback in front of a tent. Title from recto, date devised. The photograph is signed and numbered on the negative: "Ph. Garrigues Tunis, 244". Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0038 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24446750 BIB-ID: 2537220 Show less
Bedouins, Bedouins--Portraits, Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Africa, North--Portraits, People
The photograph shows a group of Bedouins in traditional clothes sitting under a tent. Title from recto, date devised. Photographer unidentified. Main... Show moreThe photograph shows a group of Bedouins in traditional clothes sitting under a tent. Title from recto, date devised. Photographer unidentified. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0039 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24446762 BIB-ID: 2537221 Show less
