Mesopotamia. Materials, manufacture, colors, culture. Textile design of the Assyrians.
Textile design of the Assyrians. Materials, manufacture, colors, culture.
Category: 20th Century
The great imperial stone road from Peking to Chengtu.
Chinese pictures: notes on photographs made in China by Isabella Lucy Bird.
The port city of Damietta as the Venice of Egypt.
Damietta is frequently called the “Venice of Egypt,” and like the real Venice her glories, from a commercial point of view, have departed.
General view of Nazareth, Northern Israel.
Various views of Nazareth of the 19th and early 20th century. Photographs and illustrations. The Plain of Esdraelon. Mount of Precipitation.
The Golden Gate of the Temple at Jerusalem, Israel.
The Golden Gate is a walled gate on the east side of the Jerusalem Temple Mount / Haram ash-Sharif, dating from early Islamic times.
The art of enamelling in India. Traditional enamelers.
The art of enamelling in India. Traditional enamelers of India at work.
Paul Poiret. Elégante robe Rêve d’Or. Petit manteau Monavana.
Les Créations Parisiennes. La Mode est un Art. Haute Couture by PAUL POIRET 1930.
Egyptian Man’s shirt. The Gallebaya. Characteristic garment.
Characteristic garment of the modern Egyptian population. A variation of the Gallebaya called “kamis”. The material is black cotton (Winter).
Vampires and Vampirism. Living Vampires. History of Vampires.
THERE is, however, the living vampire, distinct and separate from the dead species.
Paper Streamers placed on graves. Old Chinese Customs.
Buddhist and Confucian beliefs differ on souls’ knowledge of their afterlife resting places.