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
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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. -
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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.
(1911)Men, women and children congregate at a festival. One holds a flag. -
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Saint's Tomb in the Desert Behind the Cataract Hotel at Assuan.
(1911)The ruins of a domed, brick structure are pictured. -
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Dragoman Explaining Cartouches in the Temple of Komombo.
(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.
(1911)A naked, or nearly naked, boy performs manual labor as a man in the shade looks on. -
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The Temple of Ptah at Karnak, Where the Moon Shines on the Image of the Goddess Sekket.
(1911)The ruins of a stone-block temple sit atop a brush landscape. A group of four columns with square roof gone mark the entrance.
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