Finding Aid for Middle Eastern and North African Portraits, circa 1860-circa 1889
Finding aid prepared by Beth Guynn
Descriptive Summary
Title: Middle Eastern and North African Portraits
Date (inclusive): circa 1860-circa 1889
Number: 93.R.31
Physical Description:
21.0 photographic prints
Repository:
The Getty Research Institute
Special Collections
1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 1100
Los Angeles, California, 90049-1688
(310) 440-7390
Abstract: Studio portraits or other posed shots of indigenous Middle Eastern and North African individuals, produced for a European
audience.
Language: Collection material is in
French
Biographical/Historical Note
The photographs in this collection were taken in the Middle East and North Africa by various photographers, known and unknown,
between the 1860s and 1880s.
Administrative Information
Access
Open for use by qualified researchers.
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
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
Acquisition Information
Acquired in 1993.
Processing History
Processed and cataloged by Beth Guynn; finding aid encoded by Holly Larson with grant funding from the Council on Library
and Information Resources (CLIR).
Scope and Content of Collection
Subjects of these albumen prints include women in native costume (including a Jewish woman and a Greek woman); native types
and trades (porters, a grocer, Arab theologians, musicians and dancers); and genre scenes (checkers players, Arab café, interior
courtyard). The countries represented by these images include Algeria, Egypt, Syria, and Tunisia.
Photographers are identified for 12 of the photographs: Sébah (4); Arnoux (2); Bonfils (2); H. Béchard (1); Hammerschmidt
(1); Lékégian (1); Zangaki (1). Nine images are by unidentified photographers. Most prints are unmounted. Captions are transcribed
as they appear in negative or on verso, as indicated.
Arrangement
No discernible original order; arranged by cataloger. Grouped by photographer.
Indexing Terms
Subjects - Topics
Clothing and dress--Africa, North
Clothing and dress--Middle East
Indigenous peoples--Africa, North--Portraits
Indigenous peoples--Middle East--Portraits
Occupations--Africa, North
Occupations--Middle East
Genres and Forms of Material
Albumen prints--1860-1889
Albumen prints--Africa, North--1860-1889
Albumen prints--Middle East--1860-1889
Photographs, Original--19th century
Studio portraits--19th century
Studio portraits--Africa, North--19th century
Studio portraits--Middle East--19th century
Contributors
Arnoux, Hippolyte
Bonfils, Félix, 1831-1885
Béchard, Henri
Hammerschmidt, W., d. 1869
Lékégian, G.
Sébah, J. Pascal
Zangaki, Constantin
Middle Eastern and North African portraits
Box 1
Unidentified photographers
Box 1
93.R.91-1
Costume juive de la Tunisie
Scope and Content Note
Numbered on verso: 135.
Box 1
93.R.91-2
Epicier Arabe
Scope and Content Note
Written on verso.
Box 1
93.R.91-3
Jouers d'échecs
Scope and Content Note
Numbered in negative: 1336.
Box 1
93.R.91-4
Three male musicians and dancers
Scope and Content Note
Title devised by cataloger.
In negative: 31.
Box 1
93.R.91-5
Femme grecque
Scope and Content Note
Written on verso.
Box 1
93.R.91-6
Seated woman with large jug
Scope and Content Note
Title devised by cataloger. Numbered in negative: 14. Studio portrait.
Box 1
93.R.91-7
Negro d'Alger
Scope and Content Note
Numbered in negative: 1331.
Box 1
93.R.91-8
Three women, one with basket of fruit on her head
Scope and Content Note
Title devised by cataloger. Numbered in negative: 830. Studio portrait.
Box 1
93.R.91-9
Woman seated on rocks with urn
Scope and Content Note
Title devised by cataloger. Numbered in negative: No. 239. Studio portrait.
Box 1
93.R.91-10
Tollahs Porteuses d'eau
Scope and Content Note
Title in negative: Arnoux...1360, Port Said.
Box 1
93.R.91-11
Miscellaneous [food?] stuff merchant and his customers
Scope and Content Note
Title handwritten on verso. Numbered and initialed in negative: Arnoux, H., 168.
Box 2
93.R.91-12
Boab (Portiers)
Scope and Content Note
Title in negative: Béchard, Henri, No. 60.
Box 2
93.R.91-13
Groupe de Bedouins Syriennes
Scope and Content Note
Title in negative: Bonfils...
Box 2
93.R.91-14
Lukkois vidant leurs outres
Scope and Content Note
Title in negative: Bonfils, 673.
Box 2
93.R.91-15
Navich girl
Scope and Content Note
Title in negative: Hammerschmidt, G.
Box 2
93.R.91-16
Type Fellah
Scope and Content Note
Title and number in negative: Lékégian, G., No. 312. Attribution: Photo Art A. Lekegian & Co.
Box 2
Sébah, J. Pascal
Scope and Content Note
All captions in negative.
Box 2
93.R.91-17
Theologians arabes
Scope and Content Note
Title and number in negative: Sébah, P., No. 380.
Box 2
93.R.91-18
Café arabe (á Gyzéh)
Scope and Content Note
Title and number in negative: P. Sébah Phot., No. 43 bis.
Box 2
93.R.91-19
Interieur d'une coeur arabe
Scope and Content Note
Title and number in negative: Sébah, P., 136.
Box 2
93.R.91-20
Hámal (Porteur d'eau)
Scope and Content Note
Title and number in negative: Sébah, P., 264.
Box 2
93.R.91-21
Shalom Alek
Scope and Content Note
Title and number in negative: Zangaki, Constantin, No. 411.
Woman with baby greeting man in window.
