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The collection contains single and double leaves from previously disbound Islamic texts, written in many parts of the Islamic world, including Afghanistan, China, Egypt, Gulf States [Qajar], India, North Africa…
Memoranda, orders, maps, reports, charts, photographs, and printed matter, relating to the invasion of French Morocco, Sicily, and southern France, activities of the Third and Seventh United States Armies, and…
The Landau Collection consists chiefly of Rom Landau's personal library and other materials, notably clippings, periodicals and government documents that he used in teaching coursework in Islamic Studies at the…
1. North Africa and Asia, primarily unidentified. --2. Egypt, Uganda, Aden, Palestine, West Africa, South Africa, mainly 1926; photographic prints and post cards. --3. India, Ceylon, Japan; primarily postcards. --4.…
96 b/w images, minimal captions in English, of local inhabitants, city views, street scenes, ports, boats, Roman ruins, in Algeria (Timgad, Lambise, Constantine, Tebessa), Tunisia (Dougga), and Morocco (Fez).
38 b/w snapshots, captions in English, of local inhabitants, desert, oases, village, market, and street scenes from Morocco (Amizmiz, Fez, Marrakesh, Taza), Algeria (El Oued, Khabylie, Tlemsen, Touggourt) and Tunisia…
The Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography collection comprises over 4,500 photographic images of the Middle East and North Africa that were amassed by the Jacobsons over a span of…
An album compiled by a British couple, with photos, postcard views, and clippings from brochures for a 25-day trip on the Royal Mail Steam Packet Company's Morocco Route, aboard the…
Album contains 180 black and white photographs taken in Nigeria, Gold Coast (Ghana), Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, Niger, and Sierra Leone. Photos are captioned in English, and document travels around Africa,…
Includes portraits of Robert J. Kerner and colleagues or unidentified others, and photographs taken in Africa. Many of the African snapshots are from Fez, French Morocco and from West Africa…
