TIMEA Visual Materials

The TIMEA Visual Materials collection contains book illustrations, stereographs, postcards, photographic cards, and other emphemera related to travel in the Middle East. Currently the collection focuses on Egypt, primarily in the nineteenth century. Most of these materials are part of a collection held by Dr. Paula Sanders, Rice University.

If you would like to request access to a high quality version of any of the images offered here, please contact timea@rice.edu.

Recent Submissions

Musee de Boulaq

Edwards, E.

The King of the Bible Pharao
Musee de Boulaq

Edwards, E.

Interior view of the museum
Musee de Boulaq

Edwards, E.

Exterior view of museum building, with inset of figures at a table
Musee de Boulaq

Edwards, E.

Standing figure of Khafre
Caire. Musee de Ghizeh

Mieli, Carlo

Exterior view of museum building, with inset of figures at a table
Colossi of the Plain at Thebes, and Luxor beyond.

(1847)

Theban Colossi viewed from a distance.
Philæ, approaching it from the Cataracts.

(1847)

A view of Philæ from a distance
View in the Delta during the inundation of the Nile.

(1847)

A scene of men and oxen riding through water with a cluster of buildings in the background.
Boats of the Nile - Cangia and Dahabéëh.

(1847)

Two boats sail along the Nile.
The Norek, a machine used by the modern Egyptians for threshing corn.

(1847)

An illustration of a man riding a plow-like implement pulled by oxen
The Banner of the Prophet at the Feast of Bairam.

Sladen, Douglas (1911)

Men, women and children congregate at a festival. One holds a flag.
The Young Idea.

Sladen, Douglas (1911)

Five naked children run towards the camera.
The Temple of Amon-Ra at Karnak.

Sladen, Douglas (1911)

The ruins of a temple with two obelisks in the distance.
A Typical Nile Town.

Sladen, Douglas (1911)

A cluster of buildings along the Nile.
An Assuan Galley and the Island of Elephantine.

Sladen, Douglas (1911)

A boat with sails by Elephantine Island.
Saint's Tomb in the Desert Behind the Cataract Hotel at Assuan.

Sladen, Douglas (1911)

The ruins of a domed, brick structure are pictured.
The Witch of Assuan.

Sladen, Douglas (1911)

Photo of an old woman who lives in a tomb in Aswan.
Fuzzy-Wuzzy.

Sladen, Douglas (1911)

Bisharin tribesman stands in front of his camp.
Dragoman Explaining Cartouches in the Temple of Komombo.

Sladen, Douglas (1911)

In discussion, one man gestures to another with his right hand as he places his hand on a wall covered in hieroglyphics.
Boy Working a Shadùf.

Sladen, Douglas (1911)

A naked, or nearly naked, boy performs manual labor as a man in the shade looks on.