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
At the village well 1934, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine
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Daphnis und Chloe, ein altgriechischer Roman und das einzige bekannte Werk des griechischen Romanciers und Romancers Longus aus dem 2. Jahrhundert nac...
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Palestine is a name given to the geographic region between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River. The region is also known as the Land of Israel, the Holy Land and the Southern Levant. In 1832 Palestine was conquered by Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of Zionist immigration and the Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by Great Britain during World War I with the Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a mandate in 1922. In 1947, following World War II and the Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the United Nations General Assembly voted to partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a
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Thot Kathin is an important annual ceremony for Buddhists in Thailand and neighbouring countries. It takes place at the end of the monsoon season when monks are free to leave their monasteries and wander or go on pilgrimage. At this time, local devotees offer new robes and other essentials to the monks. Sponsoring a Kathin ceremony is considered a noble way of making merit in Thai society. Traditionally, the King of Thailand makes a donation to the monks at the temple of Wat Arun in Bangkok and travels down the Chao Phraya River in his royal barge to attend the ceremony.
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Travel Photos India. Man, rhesus monkeys feeding (probably in a temple)
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Daphnis and Chloe, an ancient Greek novel and the only known work by the Greek novelist and novelist Longus from the 2nd century AD, History, digital reproduction of an original 19th century original
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Mount of Beatitudes (Horns of Hattin) American Colony, Jerusalem. 1898, Israel
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Pristina, Kosovo, Serbia the family of the bell -eaten of the Serbian church, Tous Serbs , 1913 - Balkans - Jean Brunhes and Auguste Léon - (April 23 - June 9) (French - Pristina , Kosovo , Serbie La famille du sonneur de l' église serbe , tous serbes). Woman, costume, Christianity, child, group portrait, family, Human beings, clothing, religion, Serbia, Pristina, the family of the bell of the Serbian Church, Tous Serbs
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Bible Pix - Amish Color, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell
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Postcard of Navajo Indians on Reservation. ca. 1929, Navajo Indians on Reservation, 26. There are approximately 40,000 Navajo Indians occupying a Reservation of about 9,000,000 acres in No. Arizona and New Mexico. They are self supporting and derive their living from marketing cattle, sheep, wool and hides. Navajo rugs woven by the squaws are famed for their beauty and durability. Silver jewelry hand hammered from Mexican pesos by Navajo silversmiths is very much in demand and highly prized.
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Southern Palestine. Nebi Rubin (the prophet Reuben). A Muslim yearly pilgrimage in honour of Patriarch Reuben. The Nebi Rubin pilgrim camp reminiscent of Israel's camp in the desert. 1920, Israel
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"Die Feier des Beiramfestes, " woodcut depicting "The Bayram Festival" from "Moderne Kunst in Meisterholzschnitten" 1903
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09/30/1908. The independence of Tyrol. The monument that has just been inaugurated in Klause in memory of the Capuchin friar Haspinger, the main defender of that territory against the Napoleonic invasion in 1809.
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Last Rest (Grave of Scott, Wilson, and Bowers), 1913
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in philipphines the typical hanging cemetery in the mountain cliff
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May 1937. Camarín of the Virgin of the Head, whose image was found hidden under its rubble by order of Captain Cortés hours before the sanctuary fell, and which was unearthed shortly after in the presence of General Queipo de Llano.
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Kodjazi, Albania Small Outdoor Coffee near Muslim burials , 1913 - Balkans, Italy - Jean Brunhes and Auguste Léon - (September - October 23) (French - Kodjazi , Albanie Petit café en plein air près de sépultures musulmanes). Cemetery, food, funeral architecture, Islam, rural life, religious architecture, man, Daily life, habitat , architecture, religion, human beings, Albania, Kodjazi, a small outdoor coffee
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Home Burns. Half-naked members of the ***** Freedom (Doukhobor) religious sect pray and ***** one of their homes burn. Sect Members have fired 12 ***** their own homes in protest against war and world conditions. May 02, 1950.
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Legend attributes the first Buddhist doctrine in Burma to 228 BCE when Sohn Uttar Sthavira, one of the royal monks to Emperor Ashoka the Great of India, came to the country with other monks and sacred texts. However, the era of Buddhism truly began in the 11th century after King Anawrahta of Pagan (Bagan) was converted to Theravada Buddhism. Today, 89% of the population of Burma is Theravada Buddhist. The ancient city of Prome, renamed Pyay, is a town in Pegu (Bago) Division in lower Burma, located on the Irrawaddy (Ayeyarwady) River some 260 km northwest of Rangoon.
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Lundy - an island in the Bristol Channel - Three megalthic standing stones Date: circa 1890s
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Tibet, Hermit Kingdom -- High officials in the garden of Deky Lingka; second from the left is Tsarong Shape-pe, the greatest personality in Lhasa and one of the most powerful men in Tibet (he was a favorite of the 13th Dalai Lama). On the right is one of the commanders in chief. May 5, 1948. (Photo by Pictorial Press).
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Taller Bamiyan Buddha in Afghanistan ca. 1933.
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Mahatma gandhi during his morning walk, india, asia, 1929 Copyright: xJayanxMitra/DinodiaxPhotox
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06/30/1943. Albaida (current Albelda), which in Arabic means "the White One", proudly tells of the miracle she witnessed of seeing the holy apostle fight.
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The monk and the preacher's chair on Heligoland, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany, authentic reproduction of a school mural, historical, around 1900
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Church in the Woods
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Bible Pix - Amish Color, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell
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shepherd life illustrating the Twenty-Third Psalm 'Surely goodness and mercy' 1946, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine
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shepherd life illustrating the Twenty-Third Psalm 'He restoreth my soul' 1946, Middle East, Israel and/or Palestine
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Mount of Olives and Gethsemane Jerusalem and Olivet. Graf Zepelin over the old city, April 11th 1931 Day of Greek holy fire, Israel
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Bible Pix - Amish Color, Toni Frissell, Antoinette Frissell Bacon, Antoinette Frissell
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Hindu priest seating on rocks, India Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox
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A Cherokee medicine man or Dida:hnvwi:sg (I) , Houses, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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The "Glacier Priest" Brings Back Remarkable Pictures Of His Volcano Expedition - Devotion is not forgotten during the expedition to the "Crater of the Moon." Father Hubbard (right) saving mass at the start of the day's work, as other members of the expedition kneel behind him. a jagged bit of rock serves as an altar, a few miles from the smouldering volcano. Seattle, wash... back in seattle, after ten weeks of the most hazardous exploration ever undertaken by man, Father Bernard H. Hubbard, head
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Bhutan, Laya, Native women pounding grain in basket
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Hindu priest seating on rocks, India Copyright: xTxSatyan/DinodiaxPhotox
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Ascension-Trinity Monastery, Church of St. Michael Malein (1731), south view, with Procession of the Cross, Saturday, August 12, 2000, Solikamsk, Russia. Brumfield photograph collection. Monasteries,Russia Federation,2000. , Religious processions,Russia Federation,2000. , Russia Federation,Permskaia oblast ,Solikamsk.
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Dancing to restore an eclipsed moon, c1914. Several Kwakiutl people dancing in a circle around a smoking fire, in an effort to cause a sky creature, which they believe swallowed the moon, to sneeze thereby disgorging it.
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Lemont, Illinois: August 4, 1942. Two of the nuns at at the Mount Asissi Convent head across the oat fields of the 100 acre farm with scythe and rake to do the harvesting.
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CARRETA CON IMAGEN DE LA VIRGEN (ROMERIA DEL ROCIO). Location: EXTERIOR. Rota. Cadiz. SPAIN.
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Edward S. Curits Native American Indians - Dancing to restore an eclipsed moon circa 1914.
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Photograph of a destroyed Nagasaki Temple after the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Dated 1945
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The Christmas Story, Y.M.C.A. tableaux The Home at Nazareth II 1934, Jerusalem, Israel
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Mount of Olives and Gethsemane, Jerusalem, Holy Land, Israel, c. 1890, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Mount of Olives and Gethsemane, Holy Land, 1890, Historic, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original, Asia
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The Holodomor was a man-made famine in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic in 1932 and 1933 that killed an estimated 2.5-7.5 million Ukrainians, with millions more counted in demographic estimates. It was part of the wider disaster, the Soviet famine of 1932-33, which affected the major grain-producing areas of the country. During the Holodomor millions of citizens of the Ukrainian SSR, the majority of whom were ethnic Ukrainians, died of starvation in a peacetime catastrophe unprecedented in the history of Ukraine.Since 2006, the Holodomor has been recognized by the independent Ukraine and many other countries as a genocide of the Ukrainian people carried out by the Soviet Union.
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Jerusalem engraved by A.H. Payne after Alexius Geyer frontis of 19th century book The Life of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by Rev John Fleetwood
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Swayambhunath is an ancient religious complex atop a hill in the Kathmandu Valley, west of Kathmandu city. It is also known as the Monkey Temple as there are holy monkeys living in parts of the temple in the north-west. The Tibetan name for the site means 'Sublime Trees', for the many varieties of trees found on the hill. For the Buddhist Newars in whose mythological history and origin myth as well as day-to-day religious practice, Swayambhunath occupies a central position, it is probably the most sacred among Buddhist pilgrimage sites. For Tibetans and followers of Tibetan Buddhism, it is second only to Bodhnath.
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The cemetery where the family of Mahomet is buried, Damascus, Holy Land, Syria, around 1890, Historical, digitally restored reproduction from a 19th century original.
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Let us give thanks. 'Be thankful unto him, and bless his name.' Psalm 100:4 , Croplands, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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The monks of Saint Bernard, together with their dogs, visit Tibet. Date: December 1931
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Let us give thanks. 'Be thankful unto him, and bless his name.' Psalm 100:4 , Croplands, Tichnor Brothers Collection, postcards of the United States
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Photograph of graves of judges in the Holy Land by Johann Baptist von Lakenbacher, albumin print taken 1860, printed 1864, depicting historical burial sites.