Dorot Jewish Division - Selected African Holdings

Dorot Jewish Division - Selected African Holdings

New York Public Library

Selected items with African Origination

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Ecole Juive

New York Public Library · 1890

Photograph of Tunisian Jewish school girls. Original caption: "Ecole Juive".

The chapel and grotto of Elijah, Jebel Músa. This gigantic cypress is one of the world-famous trees. In Niebuhr's time …

New York Public Library · 1881

Wâdy Feirân. The rock supposed to have been struck by Moses is in the right-hand forground. The Arabs call it …

New York Public Library · 1881

A village threshing floor. Showing a primitive threshing-sledge drawn by buffaloes, and a peasant separating the chaff from the grain …

New York Public Library · 1881

Alluvial desposits, Wâdy Feirân. These strange deposits serve as a "meter" to measure the height to which the Feirân streams …

New York Public Library · 1881

Sebîl, or street fountain. Supplied from a cistern below which is filled during the inundation of the Nile. The upper …

New York Public Library · 1881

The smaller obelisk of Karnak. Belonging to the pylon of Thomthmes I. The fragments of a fellow obelisk strew the …

New York Public Library · 1881

Jebel ed Deir, Sinai.

New York Public Library · 1881

Tomb of a Muslim saint at Minyeh. Shaded by an ancient sycamore-tree. It is on the north side of the …

New York Public Library · 1881

Entrance to Wâdy Gharandel.

New York Public Library · 1881