A Zeyat or Oil Seller with Customers in his Shop in Cairo Source: The Oriental Album. Characters, Costumes, And Modes Of Life, In The Valley Of The Nile. Published 1848.… Read More
A Zeyat or Oil Seller with Customers in his Shop in Cairo.
Category: 19th Century
A Janissary and a Merchant in Cairo. The Oriental Album.
A Janissary and a Merchant in Cairo. Source: The Oriental Album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile by James Augustus St. John (1801-1875). Painting by… Read More
Dromedaries Halting in the Desert by Prisse d’Avennes.
Characters, Costumes, And Modes Of Life, In The Valley Of The Nile by Prisse d’Avennes.
An Arab Sheikh in traditional costume. The Oriental Album.
Arab Sheikh Smoking. The Oriental Album by Prisse d’Avennes
A Caravan. Kafila with a Camel Bearing a Hodesh.
A caravan of camels has pitched their camp in an oasis.
A medicine man of the Meskwaki tribe.
Keesheswa is a medicine man of note in the Meskwaki tribe, and, so far as we can judge from appearances, is a devout believer in his science.
A Chippeway widow with the best of her late husband’s clothes.
A Chippeway widow, on the death of her husband, selects from his scanty wardrobe, a complete suit of his best clothes.
Isle of Marken Dutch costume in 1850.
Isle of Marken Dutch costume in 1850. Lobster fishermen and citizen on the sea shore in a conversation Published by Münchner Kostüm Bilder (Munich costume pictures)
Egyptian Dancing Girls. The Oriental Album.
Egyptian Dancing Girls Performing the Ghawazi at Rosetta, by Prisse d’Avennes.
Fishwife and fishermen from Scheveningen
Fishwife and fishermen in the harbor of Scheveningen, Dutch 1850