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Middle Eastern and North African Portraits
93.R.31
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Contributing Institution:
Special Collections
Title: Middle Eastern and North African portraits
Creator:
Sébah, Pascal, 1823-1886
Identifier/Call Number: 93.R.31
Physical Description:
21 photographic prints
Date (inclusive): circa 1860-circa 1889
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Abstract: The collection comprises 21 photographs taken between the 1860s and 1890s of
Middle Eastern and North African individuals.
Language of Material: Collection material is in French.
Scope and Content of Collection
The collection comprises 21 albumen photographs taken between the 1860s and the 1890s of Middle Eastern and North African
individuals. The photographs
take the form of studio portraits or other posed shots, including genre scenes. Occupational portraits include porters, water
carriers, a grocer, Arab
theologians, a spice merchant, and musicians and dancers. The image captions identify many of the sitters, especially women,
by their ethnicity. Genre
scenes depict checkers players and a café scene. Countries represented by the images include Algeria, Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia.
Photographers are identified for 12 of the photographs; the remainder are by unidentified photographers.
Most of the prints are unmounted. The nineteenth century French captions present in the negative or written on the versos
of the photographs have been
used as titles for the individual photographs, and as such some titles may include language now considered to be racist or
biased.
Processed and cataloged by Beth Ann Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library
and Information Resources
(CLIR).
Middle Eastern and North African portraits, circa 1860-circa 1889, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Accession no.
93.R.31
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/cifa93r31
Acquired in 1993.
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Arranged in a singles series: Series I. Middle Eastern and North African Portraits, circa 1860-circa 1889.
The photographs in the collection were taken in the Middle East and North Africa by various photographers, known and unknown,
between the 1860s and the
1880s.
Photographers are identified for 12 of the photographs: Pascal Sébah (4); Hippolyte Arnoux (2); Félix Bonfils (2); Béchard
(1); Wilhelm Hammerschmidt
(1); G. Lékégian (1); and Zangaki (1).
The collection was digitized by the repository and the images are available online:
http://hdl.handle.net/10020/93r31
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Studio portraits -- Africa, North -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Middle East -- 1860-1889
Occupations -- Africa, North
Studio portraits -- Middle East -- 19th century
Clothing and dress -- Africa, North
Occupations -- Middle East
Indigenous peoples -- Middle East -- Portraits
Clothing and dress -- Middle East
Indigenous peoples -- Africa, North -- Portraits
Studio portraits -- 19th century
Photographs, Original -- 19th century
Albumen prints -- Africa, North -- 1860-1889
Albumen prints -- 1860-1889
Hammerschmidt, W., -1869
Lékégian, G.
Béchard, Émile, 1844-
Bonfils, Félix, 1831-1885
Arnoux, Hippolyte
Adelphoi Zangaki (Firm)