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About this Item

Title

  • Bilder aus Mekka

Summary

  • Photographs depicting scenes in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. Includes aerial views of the city, government buildings, mosques and shrines. Also shows pilgrims during the Hajj, camp sites, and men from the ruling familes of Mecca.

Names

  • Abd al-Ghaff r, al-Sayyid, Physician of Mecca, photographer
  • Minami Mansh Tetsud Kabushiki Kaisha. T a Keizai Ch sakyoku (1939-1945), DLC, former owner
  • Snouck Hurgronje, C. (Christiaan), 1857-1936, author

Created / Published

  • Leiden : E.J. Brill, 1889.

Headings

  • -  Muslims--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--1880-1890
  • -  Mosques--Saudi Arabia--Mecca--1880-1890
  • -  Pilgrimages--Saudi Arabia--1880-1890
  • -  Mecca (Saudi Arabia)--1880-1890

Format Headings

  • Albumen prints--1880-1890.
  • Cityscapes--1880-1890.
  • Group portraits--1880-1890.
  • Portfolios--1880-1890.
  • Portrait prints--1880-1890.

Genre

  • Cityscapes--1880-1890
  • Group portraits--1880-1890
  • Portrait prints--1880-1890
  • Albumen prints--1880-1890
  • Portfolios--1880-1890

Notes

  • -  Includes German "Explanation of the plates" caption list.
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Photographs attributed to al-Sayyid Abd al-Ghaff r by scholar Claude Sui. (Source: "Travel to the Holy Land and photography in the nineteenth century" by Claude Sui. Chapter in: To the Holy Lands: Pilgrimage centres from Mecca and Medina to Jerusalem. Mannheim: Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, 2008, pages 56-63)
  • -  Sixteen single images measure 19 x 24 cm. Four images (2 on a sheet) measure 16 x 11 cm. or smaller.
  • -  Digitized images of each portfolio page and associated identifying information are available through the Prints & Photographs Online Catalog.
  • -  Transfer; ca. 1946.
  • -  LC copy has ink stamp in Japanese: [Minami Mansh Tetsud Kabushiki Kaisha T a Keizai Ch sakyoku z sho no in] (in possession of Southern Manchuria Railroad Co. East Asia Economic Research Division). Portfolio has book stamp in Arabic on inside front cover stating connection with the Southern Manchuria Railroad Company, East Asia Economic Research Division. Arabic text on book stamp reads: [H dh al-mujallad t bi li-maktabat Maktab al-Ab th al-Iqti d yah lil-Sharq al-Aq ̀bi-Sharikat Sikak al- ad d Mansh riy al-Jan b yah]. Copy also has receipt from Washington Documentation Center, date stamped 27 Aug. 1946 attached to acompanying half title page.

Medium

  • 1 portfolio (20 photographic prints) : albumen ; 38 x 29 cm. (portfolio).

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 7088 (G) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2013646245

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Online Format

  • image

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Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Minami Mansh Tetsud Kabushiki Kaisha. T A Keizai Ch Sakyoku , Dlc, Former Owner, and C Snouck Hurgronje, Abd Al-Ghaff R, Al-Sayyid, Physician Of Mecca, photographer. Bilder aus Mekka. Mecca Saudi Arabia, 1889. Leiden: E.J. Brill. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005684339/.

APA citation style:

Minami Mansh Tetsud Kabushiki Kaisha. T A Keizai Ch Sakyoku, D. & Snouck Hurgronje, C., Abd Al-Ghaff R, A., photographer. (1889) Bilder aus Mekka. Mecca Saudi Arabia, 1889. Leiden: E.J. Brill. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005684339/.

MLA citation style:

Minami Mansh Tetsud Kabushiki Kaisha. T A Keizai Ch Sakyoku , Dlc, Former Owner, and C Snouck Hurgronje, photographer by Abd Al-Ghaff R, Al-Sayyid, Physician Of Mecca. Bilder aus Mekka. Leiden: E.J. Brill. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2005684339/>.