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Bazaar in Bethlehem

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The bazaar in Bethlehem, sits in an square surrounded by miles of buildings. Several camels stand or lie in the square ad many people stand or walk in the square. Pack donkeys stand on the bottom...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Building with women inside and in front of the structure

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Unidentified women stand outside an elaborate building in, possibly, Singapore, wearing traditional dress. One woman sits on a rickshaw with the rickshaw driver holding up the poles with which he is...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Bullfight in Seville, Spain

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A bullfight in Seville, Spain, shows a picador on a light colored horse in the bullring holding a long spear under his arm and pointing toward the bull's head. Three matadors in full regalia stand in...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Chester Rows at the Cross

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Chester Rows at The Cross, looking southeast down Eastgate Street in Chester, England. Chester Rows are a set of Georgian and Victorian buildings in each of the four main streets of Chester, in the...

Chief of Kandy and his family in Sri Lanka

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A Kandian chief and family are wearing traditional clothing and jewelry as they sit or stand in a room in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. He is the only male in the family. They all look somberly at...

Crowd among trees

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A large crowd of men and women standing in the open areas among tall trees for an unknown event. A long roof can be seen behind the trees.

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Czar Cannon

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A man stands on a large cannonball to look down the bore of the Czar's cannon that sits on a large carriage and on a pedestal in Moscow, Russia. A crowd of men, women, and children stand about the...

Date Published
1895 to 1900

Damascus gate

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A view outside the Damascus Gate has several people—men, women, and two children—walking on the dirt road. One man stands beside his ladened donkey as another man, holding an umbrella to shade the sun...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Devil dancers and drummer in Sri Lanka

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Four dancers in costume pose in the street with a wall behind them in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A drummer sits on the path in profile on the right side of the photograph, with a gata bera drum lying...

Date Published
1894 to 1900

Drawing of a bullfight

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A photograph of a pen and ink drawing by José Chaves. The drawing shows a busy bullring with a large crowd in the stands across the top of the picture. In the foreground, a matador, with one foot off...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Ella and Jacob Loose seated in rickshaw carts

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Ella and Jacob Loose are seated in rickshaw carts being held by unidentified native rickshaw drivers standing on a gravel driveway in Japan. An empty rickshaw is beside them. On the left-side of the...

Exposition to exhibit the Buddha's tooth

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Buddhists monks gather around a low, small table with a tablecloth, on which religious objects are displayed for the exposition of the Buddha's tooth in the Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa) in...

Date Published
1894 to 1900

Family at their houseboat

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An unidentified woman holding a toddler, stands between two children. The one on the left is possibly a teenager and the other a young child in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. They stand in the water in...

Date Published
1894 to 1900

Folk dancers performing at Skansen

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Women folk dancers in traditional dress, pair up to entertain while a man plays the nyckelharpa next to them on the right side of the photograph. One woman in each pair wears a scarf on her head while...

Galata Bridge

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In a view from the port to the city, the Galata Bridge is crowded with people walking across it. The Galata tower stands tall above the entire city in the background. Rowboats are on the water on the...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Galata Tower

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A view of the Galata Tower in Istanbul, Turkey, from down a lane that is being used by many men, women and children. Buildings line each side of the street. The tower was used as a fire lookout tower...

Date Published
1891 to 1900

Jacob and Ella Loose at Jīzah, Egypt

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Three local guides stand next to the two camels that they are leading that Jacob Loose and Ella Loose are riding, at the Great Sphinx and the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. Another local person is climbing...

Jacob and Ella Loose at Jīzah, Egypt

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Jacob Loose stands with his left side to the camera as he looks at a local guide who may be a teenage boy. A camel is lying on the ground beside the guide with his neck stretched flat on the ground...

Karl Johans Street in Oslo, Norway

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A panoramic view of Karl Johans Street in Oslo Norway with the Grand Hotel on the right front of the photograph. Many men and women walk the sidewalks beside buildings with awnings over the windows...

Date Published
1895 to 1900

Loose's and friends take an elephant ride

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Ella and Jacob Loose along with two unidentified people are seated on a saddle on an elephant in India. A driver straddles the elephant's neck by sitting on a blanket as he holds a hook. A helper...