Burkha Collection

Proclamation, Baghdad, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Proclamation, Baghdad, 1917. A crowd of men and women in Baghdad, Iraq, after the conquering of the city by the British Army in March 1917 during World War I.

Middle East Costumes, Egypt, May 14, 1878. Creator: Lockwood de Forest
Middle East Costumes, Egypt, May 14, 1878

Traveling Tartar Family, Near Yalta, Crimea, August 15, 1837, 1840. Creator: Auguste Raffet
Traveling Tartar Family, Near Yalta, Crimea, August 15, 1837, 1840

Tartar Women at the Baïdar, Crimea, August 26, 1837, 1842. Creator: Auguste Raffet
Tartar Women at the Baidar, Crimea, August 26, 1837, 1842

Woman in purdah, standing in front of doowrway, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Woman in purdah, standing in front of doowrway, between 1905 and 1915. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

Woman in purdah, standing near wooden door, between 1905 and 1915. Creator: Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky
Woman in purdah, standing near wooden door, between 1905 and 1915. Russian chemist and photographer Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky (1863-1944)

"A Departure from Palmyra", by Carl Haag, in the exhibition of the Society of Painters... 1862
"A Departure from Palmyra", by Carl Haag, in the exhibition of the Society of Painters in Water Colours, 1862. We have rarely seen a drawing so small as that we have engraved so full of

Young woman wearing chador, ca 1844-1850. Creator: Anonymous
Young woman wearing chador, ca 1844-1850. Private Collection

Kabul Types, 1840s, (1901). Creator: James Atkinson
Kabul Types, 1840s, (1901). Portraits of people in the capital of Afghanistan: a woman donning a burqa before going out (top left), An Afghan Sirdar, (a term denoting a prince or noblemen)

From Algiers Harbor. Private Collection

The Handing over of the Sacred Carpet in Cairo, 1876. Artist: Makovsky, Konstantin Yegorovich (1839-1915)
The Handing over of the Sacred Carpet in Cairo, 1876. Found in the collection of the State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

On the Street of Cairo, 1873. Artist: Makovsky, Konstantin Yegorovich (1839-1915)
On the Street of Cairo, 1873. Found in the collection of the Regional I. Kramskoi Art Museum, Voronezh

The Liberation of Muslim Women. Burning the Veil, 1928. Artist: Kravchenko, Alexei Ilyich (1889-1940)
The Liberation of Muslim Women. Burning the Veil, 1928. From a private collection

Courtyard of the Al-Azhar Mosque and University, Cairo, 1928. Artist: Bilibin, Ivan Yakovlevich (1876-1942)
Courtyard of the Al-Azhar Mosque and University, Cairo, 1928. From a private collection

Street sale in Central Asia, 1902. Artist: Sommer, Richard Karl (1866-1939)
Street sale in Central Asia, 1902. From a private collection

A market scene in Constantinople, with the Hagia Sophia beyond, 1860. Artist: Aivazovsky
A market scene in Constantinople, with the Hagia Sophia beyond, 1860. From a private collection

Bazaar in Constantinople. Artist: Khlebovsky, Stanislav (1835-1884)
Bazaar in Constantinople. From a private collection

The Silk Bazaar. Artist: Preziosi, Amedeo (1816-1882)
The Silk Bazaar. Found in the collection of the Pera Museum, Istanbul

The Grand Bazaar. Artist: Preziosi, Amedeo (1816-1882)
The Grand Bazaar. Found in the collection of the Pera Museum, Istanbul

A Scene in Cairo, 1878, (1917). Artist: Frederick Arthur Bridgman
A Scene in Cairo, 1878, (1917). From Bibbys Annual 1917, [J. Bibby & Sons, Liverpool, 1917]

Women water carriers, Tigris River, Baghdad, Iraq, 1917-1919

Bazaar, 1914. Artist: Macke, August (1887-1914)
Bazaar, 1914. From a private collection

The Mosque, 1881. Artist: Renoir, Pierre Auguste (1841-1919)
The Mosque, 1881. Found in the collection of the Musee d Orsay, Paris

The Street, Second Half of the 19th cen Artist: Brest, Germain Fabius (1823-1900)
The Street, Second Half of the 19th cen.. Found in the collection of the Pera Museum, Istanbul

The Turkish pavilion at the Universal Exhibition of 1900, Paris, 1900. Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a worlds fair held in Paris, France

The Persian pavilion at the Universal Exhibition of 1900, Paris, 1900. Exposition Universelle of 1900 was a worlds fair held in Paris, France

Cairo seen of left bank of the Nile, 1881. Published in L Egypt by Gaston Maspero, 1881

A Turkish Lady Going with her Slave to the Bath, ca 1760. Artist: Smith, Francis (active 1763-1780)
A Turkish Lady Going with her Slave to the Bath, ca 1760. From a private collection

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