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    The Visitation, version (c) richenda fairhurst
 Costume  (page two)
~ Traditional national and religious dress.

The Photochrom Photograph collection displayed on these pages is dated between 1890 and 1900 and available from the Library of Congress.  The collection includes pictures of abbeys, cathedrals, and churches, and also castles, city gates, bridges, harbors, and more.  This page is devoted to traditional costume.  Click here for Castles and Gates.  Clike here for Abbeys and Churches.  Click here for everything else.

I wish I had time to fill these pages with information about each abbey, grotto, tomb, shrine, church and monastery pictured.  But realistically, I just don't.  Fortunately, in today's world, if you need more information, you can google to find it.  Post any info in my comments section if you like. 

With or without the particulars, it is really the photographs that matter and in this case they speak for themselves.  Not only are they beautiful, but they were taken before motorcars arrived to ruin the historical setting.  Best of all, these photographs are all in the public domain, which means I am free to use them as I like, and so are you!

Enjoy them!!
 -Richenda
Various portraits of people in costume from Europe, North Africa, and the Holy Land.
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The Photochrome Collection.  Detroit Publishing Co., 1905.   Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
    

    Costume
    Germany
     
  
German Girl 
[A Girl of the Black Forest, Black Forest, Baden, Germany]
[A Girl of the Black Forest, Black Forest, Baden, Germany]
german_girl.>  310k



German Women
[National Vierlander costume, Hamburg, Germany]
[National Vierlander costume, Hamburg, Germany]
german_women.>   258k  

  

Milkwagon
[Milksellers, Cologne, the Rhine, Germany]
[Milksellers, Cologne, the Rhine, Germany]
milkwagon.>   273k



Holy Land


Bedouins
[Bedouins and children outside tent, Holy Land]
[Bedouins and children outside tent, Holy Land]
bedouin.> 288kDancing Girl



[Cairo. Dancing girl or Alma]
[Cairo. Dancing girl or Alma]
cairo_dancinggirl.> 132k
This photogaph is not part of the photochrom collection, taken
between 1860 and 1890.



Girl of Cairo
 [Cairo. Native girl]
cairo_girl.> 124k
This picture is not part of the photochrom collection, taken
between 1860 and 1890.



Cairo. Native Woman

cairo_woman.> 1.8M
This picture is not part of the photochrom collection, taken
between 1860 and 1890.Men of Bethlehem



[Peasants of the neighborhood of Bethlehem, Holy Land, (i.e., West Bank)]
[Peasants of the neighborhood of Bethlehem, Holy Land, (i.e., West Bank)]
men_bethlehem.> 313k >Milk Sellers



[Milk seller of Siloam, Holy Land]
[Milk seller of Siloam, Holy Land]
milk_seller.> 225k



Muslim Women
[Mahomedan women in town costume, Holy Land]
[Mahomedan women in town costume, Holy Land]
muslim_women.>        186k



[Water carrier of Jerusalem, Holy Land]
[Water carrier of Jerusalem, Holy Land]
water_carrier.>         289k



Armenian Patriarch
[Palestine, Jerusalem, Armenian Patriarch]  Armenian Patriarch of
Jerusalem, seated, facing front, wearing hooded vestment, adorned
with crosses and other medals on his chest, holding a strand of beads.
Palestine, Jerusalem, Armenian Patriarch
armenian_patriarch.>       184k
This photograph is not part of the Photochrom Collection. 
Taken between 1900 and 1910 by the American Colony (Jerusalem) photographer.



[Bedouin Chief of Palmyra, Holy Land (i.e., Tadmur, Syria)]
[Bedouin Chief of Palmyra, Holy Land (i.e., Tadmur, Syria)]
bedouin_chief.>        283k



[Sheiks of a Palestine village, Holy Land]
[Sheiks of a Palestine village, Holy Land]
bedouin_sheik.>    196k



[Bedouin shepherd of Syria, Holy Land]
[Bedouin shepherd of Syria, Holy Land]
bedouin_shepherds.>     286k



[Bedouins drawing water, Holy Land]
[Bedouins drawing water, Holy Land]
bedouins_water.>      359k



[Bread seller of Jerusalem, Holy Land]
[Bread seller of Jerusalem, Holy Land]
bread_sellers.>      306k



[Peasants grinding corn at Jerusalem, Holy Land]
[Peasants grinding corn at Jerusalem, Holy Land]
grind_corn.>    296k



[An Israelite, Jerusalem, Holy Land]
[An Israelite, Jerusalem, Holy Land]
israelite.>      249k



[Native of Palestine working with an ox and an ass, Holy Land]
[Native of Palestine working with an ox and an ass, Holy Land]
native_bethlehem.>    286k



[Native of Bethlehem on his donkey, Holy Land, (i.e., West Bank)]
[Native of Bethlehem on his donkey, Holy Land, (i.e., West Bank)]
native_bethlehem2.>     241k




[Irregular cavalrymen (bashi-bazouks or basibozuks)]
[Group portrait of three men, one smoking a nargile; possibly irregular
cavalrymen (bashi-bazouks or basibozuks)]  
irregular cavalrymen (bashi-bazouks or basibozuks)]
basibozuks.>          247k
This photograph is not part of the Photochrom Collection.  Taken
between 1880 and 1900.  Abdullah frères, photographer.



[Syrian peasant making bread, Holy Land]
[Syrian peasant making bread, Holy Land]
peasant_syria.>       383k



[Itinerant shoemaker of Jerusalem, Holy Land]
[Itinerant shoemaker of Jerusalem, Holy Land]
shoemaker.>          292k



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