Historic Middle Eastern Life

Black and white photographs illustrating daily life and rituals in early 20th century Middle Eastern villages, depicting varied cultural practices.

At the village well 1934, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Various subjects of archaeological interest A Canaanitish winepress at Ain Karem. Natives with middle bronze jars. 1920, Jerusalem, Israel

Bethel (Betin) 1900, West Bank, Bethel

23rd Psalm, sheep 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Weli of Budrieh at Sherafat and the preparing of a sacrifice The sacrifice 1900, West Bank

Scene at the village well 1900, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Bedouin wedding Women's apartment in the Bedouin tent 1900, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

At the village well 1934, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Weli of Budrieh at Sherafat and the preparing of a sacrifice. The sacrifice 1900, West Bank

Opening of augmented water source in Jaamri Country at Ain Hamda, S.E. of Bethlehem, Reception tent of the Jaamri Bedouins, S.E. of Bethlehem. 1940, West Bank, Israel

Southern Palestine. Choir of Church at Mashrafieh 1900

Olive crushing and pressing. Process of applying the weight. Scene framed by ancient archway showing village. 1920, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Beth Shemeth. 1898, Israel, Bet-Shemesh (Extinct city)

Thanh Thai (ruled 1889-1907). Emperor of Annam (Central Vietnam). Nguyen dynasty. Go Cong (Cochinchina). Visit of the Emperor Thanh Thai to the tombs of his ancestors. Photoengraving. La Ilustración Española y Americana, 1898.

A Zuñi eagle cage. 1873. Photographs. Rare Book Division. Indians of North America

Bedouin wedding Preparing to make a tent of papyrus 1900, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Lubban (Labonah) 1900, West Bank, El Lubban

The Samaritan Passover on Mt. Gerizim Heating the oven 1900, West Bank

23rd Psalm, sheep. 1925, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Vintage photograph. Hindu cremation

Procession of San Estevan - Acoma. Edward Sheriff Curtis (United States, 1868-1952). United States, 1904. Photographs. Photogravure on paper

Near Bethlehem - supposed site of the angel's appearance to the shepherds , Archaeological sites, Biblical events. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Photograph shows the sacred graves on top of Mount Tampomas. Dutch East Indies, known as modern Indonesia. Dated c1935.

Women at Neby Mousa, Nebi Musa procession 1900, Nabi Musa is the name of a site in the West Bank believed to be the tomb of Moses

1912 Historic photograph of the Blackfeet Indians called Tribute to the Dead by Roland Reed of an Indian funeral and burial platform

subjects of archaeological interest A primitive winepress showing small settling bowls. 1920, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Hopi women's dance, Oraibi, Ariz. Photographed by John K. Hillers, 1879. Hopi traditional dances are a form of prayer which appeal to gods for the well-being of humankind (BSLOC_2019_9_86)

Wedding procession at Betunia, peasants. 1934, West Bank, Betuniya

Bedouin wedding Drying cheese on tent, and typical Bedouin home-life 1900, the Bedouin are a grouping of nomadic Arab peoples who have historically inhabited the desert regions in North Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, Iraq and the Levant.

Before the Final Journey - Cheyenne. Edward S. Curtis (American, 1868 - 1952)

shepherd life illustrating the Twenty-Third Psalm 'My cup runneth over'. 1910

View of Muzdalifah, located between Mina and the plain of Arafat, during the Hadj, Abd al-Ghaffar, 1889 photomechanical print This print is part of an album. Muzdalifah paper. cardboard collotype other ritual practices ~ Islam, Mohammedanism Muzdalifah

Cana of Galilee 1900, Israel, Kafr Kannā

Ash heaps from the Temple sacrifices. 1898, Middle East

Leper Patient Parchure Shastri, Sushila Nayar, Rajkumari Amrit Kaur and Mahatma Gandhi at Sevagram Ashram, 1940 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Edward S. Curtis Native American Indians - Indian Flute dancers at Tureva Spring ca. 1905.

Bathing and burning the Hindu dead, Benares, India , Funeral rites & ceremonies, Rivers

Funeral of King Hussein, Jerusalem. 1931, Israel

Ashadevi Aryanaikam, Mahatma Gandhi and other ashramites at the inauguration of a well at Sevagram Ashram, 1940 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Emmaus1898,WestBank, ʻImwās

Delphi. Castilian Spring and Greek women , Archaeological sites, Ablution fountains. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Africa, Eritrean church of Akum, 1920.

'Christ of the Andes, Statue Commemorating Treaty between Chile and Argentina. S. America', c1930s. Christ the Redeemer of the Andes at Uspallata Pass on the border between Argentina and Chile was unveiled on 13 March 1904 as a celebration of peace in the border dispute between the two countries. From "Tour of the World". Keystone View Company, Meadville, Pa., New York, Chicago, London

Summer Home Under a Cedar. Kai-Vav-Its. A tribe of the Pai Utes, living on...Kai-bab Plateau,...Grand Canon...Colorado.... John K. Hillers (American, 1843 - 1925)

Mount of Olives, Bethany, Interior of the Garden of Gethsemane 1900, Jerusalem, Israel

Bones and skulls stacked on trunk as warning sign

Bedouin wedding Bedouin women laden with papyrus 1900, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Waterweight Feast for Greek Orthodox in Vladimir Wolinsky.

c.1887, Black and White photograph, Samoa, Samoan Chiefs sit under Fale

Virgin's Fountain, Nazareth American Colony, Jerusalem. 1898, Israel, Nazareth

Print of the painting titled 'The Angelus' by Jean-François Millet (1814-1875) a French painter and one of the founders of the Barbizon School. Dated 19th Century

Valleys of Jehoshaphat and Hinnom Gehenna and Aceldama 1900, Jerusalem, Israel

Mahatma Gandhi in front of his hut at Sevagram Ashram, 1940, Mahadev Desai NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Cemetery in Lepenjatale. .

Chapel on Greino. .

Native Provision Shop in Ceylon, circa 1900

German Kaiserfeier, altar with group. .

Interior of a Coptic church, Eraclea, Egypt, photograph by Hautes Etudes Raynaud, ca 1920.

Palm Sunday procession near Gethsemane. 1934, Jerusalem, Israel

Bethlehem and surroundings A mountain path to Bethlehem. Suggestive of 'Let us now go even unto Bethlehem.' Luke 2.15. 1920, West Bank, Bethlehem, Israel

Story of Ruth. 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Palestine events. International Missionary Conference on Olivet. Easter morning service on Olivet. The I.M.C. delegates. Jerusalem seen in distance. 1928, Jerusalem

Photograph of the corpse of Grigori Rasputin. Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin (1869-1916) a Russian mystic and self-proclaimed holy-man, who had great influence in late Imperial Russia.

Mount of Olives and Gethsemane Tree of Agony. Monk picking olives. 1920, Jerusalem, Israel

Delhi, Indies funeral pyre (the fuel used here being wood) , 1913-1914 - India, Pakistan - Stéphane Passet - (December 16 -January 29) (French - Delhi , Indes Bûcher funéraire ( le combustible utilisé ici étant le bois )). Funeral, costume, cremation, fire, Hinduism, man, Society, clothing, religion, human beings

Ourga, Mongolia two young Mongols sitting in front of a yurt , 1913 - Mongolia - Stéphane Passet - (July 6-25) (French - Ourga , Mongolie Deux jeunes Mongols assis devant une yourte). Buddhism, religious habit, costume, yurt, Buddhism of Tibetan rite, nomad, funeral architecture, exists in high definition, housing, awning, religious architecture, man, Religion, clothing, housing , architecture, HD, human beings, China, Ourga, group of yurts

Bethlehem from south with woman figure (Sofie) at the well clad in richly embroidered costume. 1938, West Bank, Bethlehem

Russian Pilgrims by Jordan

Maclean's Cross - named after the chief of the Clan Mac Lean. Date: circa 1939

Waterweight Feast for Greek Orthodox in Vladimir Wolinsky.

Road to Hebron, Mar Saba, The cemetery on a Friday 1900, West Bank

Kasturba Gandhi s and Mahadev Desai s samadhis graveyards at Aga Khan Palace in Pune, 1944 Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

A newly planted tulsi tree at Sevagram Ashram, 1944 NO MR Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Indigenous Native Mexicans carrying Sugar Cane Date: circa 1907

Poll photo collection. Middle East 1950-1955: Jordan. View of part of Emmaus. 1950. Emmaus, Israel, Jordan

Maniowy, church Saint. Sebastian unknown

Internal view of the rock church of Santi Stefani in Vaste.

Vintage Photograph. Painting of "The Angelus"

Tree of the Holy Virgin Mary; E 44. Tree including the Holy Family rests with the flight to Egypt. Cairo.; Egypt; 238. Arbre de la Vierue (Matarieh) .The Photo is part of the photo Series from Egypt Collected by Richard Polak.

Jérusalem, Vallée de Josaphat, Faces Ouest et Nord, 1 1854 Auguste Salzmann French Many viewers who encountered the Valley of Jehoshaphat series in the 1850s immediately recognized the subject as the site of the Last Judgment, the sorting of earthly souls into heaven or hell. Salzmann presents the barren, rock-strewn valley, located eleven miles from Jerusalem, as a rolling landscape that dominates the picture frame. He also documents three saints tombs in the valley. The photographs allowed Salzmanns viewers not only to see a biblical site but also to visualize a catastrophic yet holy event still to come. The critic and archaeologist Ernest Feydeau (1821-1873) did just that: "The sun straight above, perpendicular, strikes this world of tombs, bursting and buckling beneath the dreadful white rays. Well! What is more terrible in this specter of the valley, what makes you clutch your jumping heart, is that we know that beneath all these stones rots an army of corpses.. come from the fo

church 1898, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

Easter morning at the Garden Tomb, April 9, 1939 Sermon. 1939, Jerusalem, Israel

'The ruins of Tekoa', c1900. Artist: Unknown.

July 1954. On a tear in the Rock, the sanctuary of the Virgin of the Angels.

Samadhi, Memorial of Kasturba Gandhi at Aga Khan Palace in Pune, 1944, India Copyright: xVithalbhaixJhaveri/DinodiaxPhotox

Over the Chinese Frontier: The Approach From Burma.Our photograph shows Namkhanm. "The Namkhanm booths swarmed with a variety of races: Shans from both sides of the border, Kachins, an occasional Lisu, a few Chinese and Indian traders; It was an ethnological jigsaw puzzle. We bumped away from it with regret. June 7, 1938.

Tibetan Buddhist monks and novices photographed by the German Tibet Expedition c. 1932. Photo by Ernst Schafer (1910-1992) / Bundesarchiv, Bild 135-S-10-15-27.

Children in a cemetary. Photographs. 1880 - 1889. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Egypt , Views, Children , Egypt, Cemeteries , Egypt

Stone cross

Photograph of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon entering Tutankhamun's tomb, found in the Valley of the Kings. George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon (1866-1923) an English peer and aristocrat best known as the financial backer of the search for and the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb. Dated 20th century

Bethlehem. 1925, West Bank, Bethlehem, Israel

Edward S. Curtis Native American Indians - Watching for the Signal ca. 1905.

10/31/1916. The annual visit to the Cemeteries in Madrid. An aspect of the necropolis of our Lady of Almudena yesterday.

Vintage Photograph. Small Village church in San Pedro in the Peruvian Andes.

Poll photo collection. Israel 1964-1965. Ein-Karem. Ein Karem. Street scene: Road with the sacred source with the associated mosque an older woman comes in the background. 1 January 1964. Ein Karem, Israel

The pilgrim camp east of Der Berg Arafat, at Mecca, during the annual Pilgrims (pl.16) meeting; C. Snouck Hurgronje, Bilder Aus Mecca, Leiden 1889..

Two stone crosses

On guard at the Estufa.. 1905. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection. Indians of North America, Pueblo Indians

Cemetery Fontanelles, Province of Naples, Campania, Italy

Brother John 1925, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine

A wayside well shaded by a fine specimen of the Acacia Nilotica. The water is raised by means of jars attached to a wheel, the sâkiyeh., 1881 - 1884., New York. Publisher, D. Appleton., 23.5 x 16.5 cm. Topics include Mosques, Palms, Women, and Wells, all related to Egypt

of 3