Portraits of Bedouins of the Middle East,views of Ba'labakk,Gerasa

Portraits of people of the Middle East and views of Ba?labakk and Gerasa
Title: Portraits of people of the Middle East and views of Ba?labakk and Gerasa
Creator(s): Dumas, Tancrède R., photographer
Date Created/Published: 1880-1893.
Summary: Predominately portraits of men and women from a variety of countries and ethnic and religious groups. Included are people from Beirut, Lebanon; Tunis, Tunisia; Biskra, Algeria; Jaffa, Israel; Damascus, Syria; Alexandria, Cairo; and Port Said, Egypt. Also depicted are Druze from Mount Lebanon; snake charmers in Tangier, Morocco; Armenian clergy at Varagavank Monastery, Van, Turkey; Bedouins, a Jewish man, and the Maronite Patriarch of Jerusalem. Also includes a group portrait of people with the holy caravan (Mahmal) in Syria on the way to Mecca during the Hajj. Archaeological ruins depicted include Ba?labakk, Lebanon; Gerasa, Jordan; and some unidentified sites.
Notes:
Digitized images of these items display with associated descriptions in the Prints & Photographs Division Online Catalog, http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/catalog.html
LOT title devised by Library staff.
47 photographs attributed to Tancrède Dumas based on 'Dumas' on photograph or LC P&P staff research. Remainder of photographs may be by Dumas or other photographers.
Various sources; 1890-1950.
Most of photographs captioned in French.
Subjects:
Bedouins--Middle East--1880-1900.
Arabs--Middle East--1880-1900.
Maronites--Middle East--1880-1900.
Armenians--Turkey--Van Ili--1880-1900.
Jews--Jerusalem--1880-1900.
Druzes--Lebanon--1880-1900.
Archaeological sites--Lebanon--Ba?labakk--1880-1900.
Archaeological sites--Gerasa (Extinct city)--1880-1900.
Albumen prints--1880-1900.
Group portraits--1880-1900.
Portrait photographs--1880-1900.
Bookmark /2004667914/
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