Burqa 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

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)

Constantinople, c1930s. Artist: C Uchter Knox
Constantinople. In the main street of Scutari, he suburb over the Bosporus, is the Biyuk Jami, or Great Mosque, built in 1547, c1930s. From Geographical Magazine, Volume 3

Moslem Woman, 1903. Artist: Mortimer L Menpes
Moslem Woman, 1903. From World Pictures, by Mortimer Menpes. Text by Dorothy Menpes. [A. & C. Black, London, 1903]

In the courtyard of the Golden Temple. Amritsar, India, 1907. [H. C. White Co. Chicago, New York, London, 1907]

A street near the Citadel, Cairo, Egypt, 1936. From a private album of a passenger who undertook a cruise on the S.S. Arandora Star, which began 9th April, 1936

Mosque on New street, Baghdad, Iraq, 1917-1919

Egyptian Costume, c1808. Artist: Rigo
Egyptian Costume, c1808

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