North African Gallery

Bishari girl, Aswan, Egypt, 1898. Creator: Christian Wilhelm Allers

Bishari girl, Aswan, Egypt, 1898. Portrait of a child from the Bishari tribe who live in the eastern Nubian Desert in Sudan and in southern Egypt. Amna, Bischarin Madchen, Assuan'. From "Rund um die Erde" [Round the Earth], written and illustrated by C. W. Allers. [Union Deutsche Verlagsgesellschaft, Stuttgart, 1898]

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Albert Frederick Calvert in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 1907. Creator: Unknown

Albert Frederick Calvert in the Alhambra, Granada, Spain, 1907. Portrait of
Australian traveller and author Calvert (1872-1946) wearing oriental dress and smoking a huqqa, in the palace of the Alhambra, which mainly dates from the 14th century. From his "The Alhambra: being a brief record of the Arabian conquest of the Peninsula with a particular account of the Mohammedan architecture and decoration". [John Lane, London & New York, 1907]

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The Prussian flag before the Sultan of Morocco, 1780, (1936). Creator: Unknown

The Prussian flag before the Sultan of Morocco, 1780, (1936). Die Preussische Flagge Vor Dem Sultan Von Marokko, 1780'. A Dutch captain named Klock lost his ship in a storm off the coast of Morocco. He and his crew were caught and imprisoned, but when Emperor Muley Ismael learned that they and their flag belonged to the empire of Frederick the Great of Prussia, he ordered them to be released and gave orders that his ships respect the Prussian flag. From "Bilder Deutscher Geschichte", (Pictures of German History), No.12, cigarette card album. [Cigaretten-Bilderdienst, Altona-Bahrenfeld, Hamburg, Germany, 1936]

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