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Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/6
Title:: 'Die von Othman Pascha erbaute Hauptwache'. Photographer: al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This street view depicts the main guardhouse or police station in Mecca, described as being newly built by Othman Pascha. The two-storey building features the Ottoman star and crescent symbols on the cornice and what appears to be a royal toughra at the centre of the pedim...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 print of a drawing

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/32
Title:: 'Ein Stück der Kiswah (der brokanten Bekleidung der Ka’bah)'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This dark-coloured print reproduces a section of the patterns inscribed on the kiswa, the black brocade cloth that covers the Caaba. Lighter lined areas delineated the decorative script and surrounding zigzag patterns. Within the zigzagged middle section of the piece the ...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/33
Title:: 'Negersklaven mit dem Ṯúmburah-orchester'. Photographer: Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This two-colour printed drawing shows a troupe of twelve seated and standing men, several holding musical instruments. They are described as ‘negro slaves’ and are part of the ‘tumburah orchestra’. The word ‘tumburah’ (also: Tanbūr, Tanbura, Tambura or Tanboor) refers to...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/72
Title:: 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 lithographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/73
Title:: 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 lithographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/74
Title:: 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 lithographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1781.b.6/75
Title:: 'In Mekka gebräuchliche Gegenstände'. Printer: Pieter Willem Marinus Trap
Scope & Content:: Genre/Subject Matter: This lithographic print shows objects and utensils in common use in Mecca. The items are drawn from the collection of Christiaan Snouck Hugronje and the illustration was printed by Pieter Willem Marinus Trap, the lithographic printer of the journal Internationales Archiv f...
Collection Area:: India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:: German
Date Range:: 1888
Extent:: 1 lithographic print

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13.1
Title:: Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Washington, [1865], vol. 1
Scope & Content:: Printed
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1865
Extent:: Printed

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13.2
Title:: Gardner's Photographic Sketchbook of the War, Washington, [1865], vol.2
Scope & Content:: Printed
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 1865
Extent:: Printed Book

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