Historic Photography
COLLECTION OF PORTRAITS from North Africa, Egypt, and the Holy Land Around 1890/1900
Collection of 61 photographs depicting individuals and groups of people.
Original photos mounted on PAT carton and in acid-free sleeve
This wide-ranging collection of portraits and figure studies of the period brings together photographs by both anonymous studios and renowned photographers such as Zangaki and Bonfils. It provides a vivid overview of the people of the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including individual portraits, occupational types, and group scenes. Men, women, and children are depicted in a variety of traditional garments and social settings, reflecting the cultural diversity of the region. The photographs i...
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TRADITIONAL WEAVING in North Africa 1920
Leather-bound album with 32 mounted photographs
This well preserved medium-sized leather album contains 32 carefully mounted photographs dedicated exclusively to the subject of traditional weaving in North Africa. The captions, neatly written in French, guide the viewer through the entire process, from the preparation of the raw material to the completion of various woven objects. A particular strength of the album lies in its systematic documentation of wool processing. The photographs show the preliminary stages in detail: washing, drying, carding and spinning the woo...
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Journey to Egypt and the Holy Land Around 1938
Album, comprising 42 pages with a total of 198 vintage prints,size between 6 x 8 and 8 x 10 cm
This travel album, comprising 42 pages with between two and six photographs per page, documents a journey to Egypt and the Holy Land undertaken around 1938, many of them captioned in English. The carefully arranged prints form a vivid visual narrative of a late interwar voyage through regions of enduring historical and religious significance. A substantial portion of the album is devoted to views of Cairo. Animated street scenes, river views and architectural landmarks convey the cosmopolitan atmosphere of the Egyptian capi...
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German Traveller‘s Album Egypt in 1925
Leather-bound album with a total of 209 photos on 63 pages
This well preserved heavy leather-bound album comprises 63 pages with on average three photographs per page and documents a German traveller‘s journey to Egypt in 1925. The album, entirely and meticuously captioned in German, offers a rich visual account of Cairo and the great pharaonic sites along the Nile. A large number of views are devoted to Cairo, including animated street scenes, mosques and bazaars, river views, and panoramic prospects that vividly convey the atmosphere of the Egyptian capital in the mid-1920s. The ...
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Egypt in 1929
Magnificent collection of 191 photogravures of Pharonic and Islamic monuments and sites in Cairo and Upper Egypt.
In 2 folders
A particularly atmospheric and well-preserved collection of 191 photogravures, arranged in two folders, documenting a journey to Egypt undertaken around New Year‘s Eve 1929. The images present a vivid visual record of a Nile voyage by houseboat, capturing both the celebrated monuments and some evocative land-scapes encountered along the route. All prints are carefully mounted on white embossed card, giving the ensemble a uniform and elegant presentation that reflects the refined touristic albums of the late 1920s. The series...
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Félix Bonfils
Panorama de Jérusalem (PANORAMA OF JERUSALEM). Albumen print, c. 1880.
Three part albumen print panorama (84.5 x 21.7 cm) backed onto linen.
Photographic title and numbers 298, 299, 300 in the negative.
Fair condition, some fading where prints are joined.
Panorama view of Jerusalem as seen from the Mount of Olives, with the dome of the Al-Aksa Mosque featuring prominently at the left. Félix Bonfils (1831-1885) was a French photographer and writer who was active in the Middle East. Having served in a French army expedition in 1860 he left France for Lebanon in 1867 and established Maison Bonfils photographic studio. Around 600 negatives were produced by Felix Bonfils, notably of Jerusalem, but also of Egypt, Syria, Greece and Constantinople. Today they offer valuable document...
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Beato, Bonfils, Lehnert & Landrock, et al.
PHARAONIC MONUMENTS IN CAIRO AND UPPER EGYPT (1890/1900)
Album with 82 photos, half of which by Beato, Bonfils and Lehnert & Landrock, c. 1890-1900
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Focus of this album is exclusively on Pharaonic monuments in Cairo and Upper Egypt. 82 splendid, mostly large format photographs (mostly c. 20 x c. 26 cm) are in excellent condition. Of the photographs 41 are by Beato, Bonfils and Lehnert & Landrock. For cataloguing and digital availability, the album is offered with an electronic inventory in Excel and/or pdf format and a digital reproduction of each motif in high resolution (approx. 2 MB per item)....
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Lehnert & Landrock
GRAND TOUR AROUND THE MEDITERRANEAN: Gibraltar, Spain, France, Italy, Greece, and Malta
Collection of 37 vintage prints by Lehnert & Landrock
Taken between 1910 and 1930.
Size of photos: 17 x 12.8 cm
c.1910-1930
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This very well preserved collection of 41 vintage prints by the famous photographers Lehnert & Landrock covers many well-known sujets in the Mediterranean. Lehnert & Landrock was based in Tunis before WW I and moved to Cairo after the war. The foremost interests of Lehnert and Landrock were in the Maghreb and North Africa. However they covered the whole range of sites in southern Europe and around the Mediterranean. The collection is conservationally processed for archival purposes and is stored in PAT material (ph...
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ALGERIA IN THE 1880s
Photos taken in Stora, Biskra, Tlemcen, Mansoura, Algiers, and Tunis
55 Albumen Prints in Album (36 x 26.5 cm)
Picture size c. 17 x 28 cm
1880s
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This well preserved heavy album with 55 mainly private albumen prints covers among others sujets at Tlemcen, Biskra, Algiers and in the countryside. The photographer had a good eye for composition and framing and a special interest in some unusual subjects such as the Trappist monastery in Staouli or the house of Lady Tennison, who was an English painter and well-known traveller. For cataloguing and digital availability, the album is offered with an electronic inventory in Excel and/or pdf format and a digital reproduction...
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Zangaki, Lichtenstern & Harari et al.
‘UPPER EGYPT & CAIRO‘ with focus on Architecture & Archaeology (1908)
Large-format travel album with 262 photos including by Zangaki and Lichtenstern & Harari
Size: 42 x 32.5 cm
1908
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Album meticulously documenting a private trip to Egypt during presumably 1908. This absolute rarity in size and volume presents, in addition to some personal motifs, mainly direct insights into life in Egypt at the turn of the century. However the majority of the pictures covers various archaeological and architectural sights, often from an unusual perspective. Also included are many details, such as in Assuan, in the sanctuary of Philae, in Komombo, Edfou, Louqsor and Karnak, Valley of the Kings or in Dendera. Some of the 2...
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Félix Bonfils
’PHOTOGRAPHIES DE TERRE SAINTE’ – Holy Land by Felix Bonfils (1908)
Album with 48 large-format photographs
Distributed by F. F. Marroum, Jerusalem
Size: 35 x 25 cm
c. 1908
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Particularly beautiful and very well preserved collection of 48 photos by Bonfils, enclosed in a wood carving binding. Besides some of Bonfils’ well known photos this album comprises many rarer views and a number of rather unknwon portraits as well as scenes of local life. The album and the photographs are well preserved and make altogether a good example for the touristic interests of the time as well as for the real situation . Félix Bonfils was a French photographer who was one of the first commercial photographers to pr...
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‘DISCOVERY OF OIL IN IRAQ‘ (1929/30): Baba Gurgur, Sulaiman Bek, and British Petroleum
88 photos mainly taken during an extended business trip by car in the region between Baghdad, Tuz and Kirkuk
Size: 18 x 12 cm
July 1929 and August 1930
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In July 1927 oil was discovered near Kirkuk making it the first commercial oil find in Iraq. British Petroleum (BP) started drilling the first oil well at Baba Gurgur north of Kirkuk. BP was shareholder in the ‘Iraqi Petroleum Company‘. The photographs in this small album depict an interesting documentation of that time, embedded in private insights of the photographer. Our bibliographic and archival services for libraries and museums: For cataloguing and digital availability the album is offered with an electronic invento...
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Philips Demonstration Tour "La voix du géant" – Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia, 1930
Photographic diary of 89 concerts and demonstrations in three months on a tour over 9000 km through the three Maghreb countries
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Presumably an internal documentation of a promotion tour of the Philips company for a radio and speakers system called "La voix du géant". Stops of the tour through Morocco, Algeria and Tunisia from end of February til May 1930 are meticuously recorded in the form of a diary. Daily handwritten entries are accompagnied by photographs, newspaper clippings and other original documents. The promotional events (“concerts“) in the various towns and villages are documented, as are the locations themselves. For catalogu...
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Bonfils, Zangaki et al.
HOLY LAND & EGYPT (c. 1896)
Album with 49 Large-format photographs Holy Land & Egypt (c. 1896)
Majority of Photos Taken by Bonfils and Zangaki
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This well preserved leather-bound album with 49 mainly large-format photographs from a typical tour in the 1890s covers partly well-known sites in the Holy Land and in Egypt, in addition a number of street scenes, buildings and studio photopgraphs. For cataloguing and digital availability, the album is offered with an electronic inventory in Excel and/or pdf format and a digital reproduction of each motif in high resolution (approx. 2 MB per item)....
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TUNISIA: Biskra, El-Kantara, Mansouria, Sidi Okba, Temacine, Touggourt
Album with 40 Silver Gelatin Prints
Size: 31.5 x 25.6 cm
c. 1925
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This album from a private trip to Biskra, El-Kantara, Mansouria, Sidi Okba, Temacine, Touggourt in Tunisia in around 1925 contains a few shots of well-known tourist attractions but, above all, a large number of pictures of everyday life. 35 well-preserved gelatin prints show vivid and authentic street and market scenes with a focus on the representation of children and groups of people with different occupations. Our bibliographic and archival services for libraries and museums: For cataloguing and digital availability the...
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E. Hoffmann
MOROCCO – FEZ & MARRAKECH: Souks, Buildings, Street Scenes, Ramadan Prayers
Album with 27 Silver Gelatin Prints by E. Hoffmann
Size: 20 x14.5 cm
c. 1929
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Beautiful example of a travel album that reproduces aspects of personal interest on a trip to Marrakech and Fez in 1929 to a good technical standard. in addition to images that capture familiar tourist views of architecture and landscape from unusual perspectives, this album focuses on shots of people and situations on the street The album contains many precise observations of special occasions such as the funeral of a child or the celebrations at the end of Ramadan. Our bibliographic and archival services for libraries and...
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Neurdein, Soler, Rives,, Albert
TUNIS & CARTHAGO: Mainly Islamic Architecture
Album with 44 Large Albumin Prints
Size: 44 x 31.2 cm
c. 1890
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Album with 44 well preserved large format, mostly Albumin prints a third of those taken by Neurdein, Soler, Rives, and Albert. The album focuses on Carthage and Tunis with intricate architectural details, many of them onFrench buildings there. Not least the cathedral of Carthago is covered from different perspectives. The album also contains several street scenes and situations in greater Tunis. Our service for libraries and museums: For cataloguing and digital availability the album is offered with an electronic inventor...
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EGYPT: ASSUAN, LUXOR, MEDINET HABU, KARNAK, THEBES, CAIRO
Album with 81 Gelatine Prints by Anonymous Photographers
Size: 27 x 20.8 cm
c. 1911
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Well-preserved travel Album of 1911 with 81 gelatine prints focusing on Assouan, Philae, Luxor, Theben, Carnak and Cairo. Excellent amateur photographs highlighting important details in the Pharaonic sites and giving a lively impression of the circumstances in which the trip took place. Several archaeologically interesting pictures of the visited sites, some of them details of the frescoes or pillars. The unknown photographer had a good eye for light and perspective. Our service for libraries and museums: For cataloguing a...
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ALGERIA: Architecture, Portraits, Street Life, Tents
Two Albums with 57 Albumen Prints, Photogravure, Heliotypie, and 54 Postcards
Size: 32.8 x 25 cm
c. 1890 – 1900
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Album on Algeria from 1890/1900 with 57 mostly Albumin prints. The first half of the album focuses on architectural details mainly in Algiers, the second half features street scenes and portraits of the local population. Most pictures are privately taken, some are unsigned but obviously professional photographs. The collection is complemented by a rare collection of 54 postcards in a second Album. This album also focuses on Algiers but contains numerous pictures of scenes from the army and of city and street life. The depic...
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