Hijab Collection

The Prince and Princess of Wales in Egypt: procession of the Holy Carpet at Cairo, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Prince and Princess of Wales in Egypt: procession of the Holy Carpet at Cairo, 1869. Religious festival, the start of the journey to Mecca with new coverings '...for the Caaba...They are

The Bazaar at Constantinople, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Bazaar at Constantinople, 1869. 'Those who have revisited Constantinople, after some years of absence, upon the late occasion of the Eastern tour of the Prince and Princess of Wales

Scene at the Mohammedan festival of the Bairam, at Alexandria, 1869. Creator: Unknown
Scene at the Mohammedan festival of the Bairam, at Alexandria, [Egypt], 1869. '...general rejoicing...following the long fast of the Ramadan

Street scene at Gibraltar, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Street scene at Gibraltar, 1876. Engraving from a sketch by...a valued correspondent and amateur artist, Major W. O. Carlile, R.A...The drapery figures of Spanish women, and of Jews and Jewesses

Costumes of Western India, Moslem woman, 1876. Creator: Unknown
Costumes of Western India, Moslem woman, 1876....copied, by permission of Dr. George Burdwood, from a collection of drawings in the Museum of the India Government Office'

Costumes de Différents Pays, Mahometane Danseuse Publique, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Mahometane Danseuse Publique, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Musulmanes Fesant la Priere, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur
Costumes de Differents Pays, Musulmanes Fesant la Priere, c1797

Costumes de Différents Pays, Femmes Turques, c1797. Creators: Jacques Grasset de Saint-Sauveur, LF Labrousse
Costumes de Differents Pays, Femmes Turques, c1797

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

Street scene from Constantinople, 1886. Creator: Fritz von Dardel
Street scene from Constantinople, 1886

The Doubtful Coin, 1869. Creator: John Frederick Lewis
The Doubtful Coin, 1869

Turkey, 5 Piastres, from the series Coins of All Nations (N72, variation 2) for Duke brand cigarettes, 1889

Femme turque en toilette de ville, 1870s. Creator: Felix Bonfils
Femme turque en toilette de ville, 1870s

Woman and child near the Kobri el Gezira Bridge, Cairo, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Woman and child near the Kobri el Gezira Bridge, Cairo, 1898. An die Nilbrucke. From " Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers

Girls at Philae, Egypt, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers
Girls at Philae, Egypt, 1898. Portrait of two girls at the Island of Philae. Madchen auf Philae. From " Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers

Women carrying water pots on the banks of the Nile, Cairo, Egypt, 1898. Am Nilufer bei Cairo. From " Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers

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

Street scene with passers-by including a poor black African woman and child, pub
Street scene with passers-by including a poor black African woman and child, slave or freed slave, from Stamboul, Souvenir de l Orient, published 1865 (colour litho)

A Turkish pedlar, 1912. Artist: Sebah
A Turkish pedlar, 1912. From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. II. [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1912]

Woman of Dsjidda (Jeddah) selling flatbread, Arabia, c1772-1774. Artist: CJ de Huyser
Woman of Dsjidda (Jeddah) selling flatbread, Arabia, c1772-1774. From the account of the expedition to Arabia and the Middle East undertaken by the German explorer Carsten Niebuhr on behalf of

A Nile Sky Line, 1908. Artist: Lance Thackeray
A Nile Sky Line, 1908. From The Light Side of Egypt, 1908

A Financial Question, 1908. Artist: Lance Thackeray
A Financial Question, 1908. From The Light Side of Egypt, 1908

Ancient and Modern, 1908. Artist: Lance Thackeray
Ancient and Modern, 1908. From The Light Side of Egypt, 1908

Two Iraqi women at Bash Tapia Castle, Mosul, Iraq, 1977. The only remainder of the old city walls of Mosul

A Turkish lady in outdoor costume, 1912. Artist: Lekegian & Co
A Turkish Lady in Outdoor Costume, 1912. From The Living Races of Mankind, Vol. II. [Hutchinson & Co, London, 1912]

Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt, c1890. Artist: Newton & Co
Valley of the Kings, Luxor, Egypt, c1890. The Valley of the Kings was the burial place of Ancient Egyptian pharaohs and nobles of the 18th, 19th and 20th dynasties (16th-11th century BC)

Veiled woman, Algiers, Algeria, 1943

Veiled women, Sarajevo, Bosnia, 1936. From Peoples of the World in Pictures, edited by Harold Wheeler, published by Odhams Press Ltd (London, 1936)

Persian woman in traditional costume, c1890. Artist: Gillot
Persian woman in traditional costume, c1890. Illustration from En Perse, Types, Costumes and Moeurs, (a work on the people, costume and customs of Persia), by L Boulanger, (Paris, c1890)

Fruit stall, Baghdad, Mesopotamia, WWI, 1918. Mesopotamia, formerly part of the Turkish Ottoman empire, was under British military control from October 1918

A street in Baghdad, Mesopotamia, WWI, 1918. Mesopotamia, formerly part of the Turkish Ottoman empire, was under British military control from October 1918

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

Female water carriers, Amarah, Iraq, 1917-1919

Women collecting water at on the Tigris River, Baghdad, Iraq, 1917-1919

Hiring a Caique, Constantinople, 1877. A party of men and veiled women negotiate the hiring of a caique, a light boat used on the Bosphorus in what is now Istanbul, Turkey

Malagasy Women, 19th century. Artist: Alexandre Bida
Malagasy Women, 19th century. Engraving after a photograph

Zanzibar Arab family, c1890. An engraving from Robert Browns The Countries of the World, published by Cassell, (London & Paris, c1890)

Albanian peasants, 19th century

Egyptian Women and Child, vintage French postcard, c1900

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