Digital Collections: Near East
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Album of Flowers and Pictures of the Holy Land, 1890s
Thirty-two pages with photographs of Holy Land sites are paired with dried flower arrangements.
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Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography Collection, 1850–1920
More than 4,500 images, including stereo views, photograph albums, illustrated books, and printed ephemera of the Middle East and North Africa taken by 164 photographers and photographic studios.
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Kitāb al-'ajā'ib wa al-gharā'ib (Book of Wonders and Oddities), 1553
This 321-page manuscript in Persian, Arabic, and Azeri traces the creation and evolution of celestial and terrestrial life. Composed by Zakarīyā ibn Muḥammad al-Qazwīnī in the 13th century, 148 miniatures depict constellations, zodiacal signs, celestial entities, animals, and fabulous creatures.
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Views of Algeria
One hundred photographs of Algeria, publications, and albums including C. Portier, Algérie pittoresque (1870), A. Le Roux, Views of Algeria (1880), Jean Geiser, Souvenir d'Algérie (1880), and Neurdein Frères, Vues d'Oran.
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