HISTORIC PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS
Historical Visual Selections from the Islamic World
Historical photographs of cities, architecture, and daily life from the Balkans, North Africa, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Central Asia, and South Asia.Inside this collection
Cities, places and album subjects
Scenes with Unconfirmed Locations206 images ↗Ada Kaleh6 images ↗Sarajevo3 images ↗Ukraine2 images ↗Bad Kreuznach1 images ↗Greece6 images ↗Prusac1 images ↗Kovel1 images ↗Tlemcen7 images ↗Jaipur1 images ↗Tunis12 images ↗Thessaloniki16 images ↗Florina5 images ↗Indonesia1 images ↗Afghanistan12 images ↗Tripoli1 images ↗New York4 images ↗Skopje6 images ↗France2 images ↗Rhodes5 images ↗Cairo19 images ↗Novi Pazar1 images ↗Mostar2 images ↗Samarkand399 images ↗Isfahan83 images ↗Berlin3 images ↗Budapest3 images ↗Svilengrad4 images ↗Mitrovica3 images ↗London3 images ↗Srebrenica1 images ↗Los Angeles1 images ↗Komotini1 images ↗Italy1 images ↗Tbilisi1 images ↗Kastoria3 images ↗Berchtesgaden1 images ↗Stara Zagora1 images ↗Nagasaki1 images ↗Preveli1 images ↗Frankfurt1 images ↗Canada1 images ↗Mururoa1 images ↗Ajiep1 images ↗Oran6 images ↗Kinshasa1 images ↗Hiroshima1 images ↗Arpalık (Ayios Sozomenos)1 images ↗Karlovo1 images ↗Barcelona1 images ↗Shkodër1 images ↗Tirana2 images ↗Ioannina1 images ↗Wardang Island1 images ↗Beirut2 images ↗Heraklion2 images ↗Russia1 images ↗Jajce1 images ↗Ulaanbaatar1 images ↗Egypt4 images ↗Pinatubo1 images ↗Finland1 images ↗Sunchon1 images ↗Azerbaijan1 images ↗Baku13 images ↗North Macedonia1 images ↗Nuremberg1 images ↗Rotterdam1 images ↗Ohrid2 images ↗Sidon1 images ↗Moscow1 images ↗Antakya3 images ↗Biskra1 images ↗Tripoli1 images ↗Salt1 images ↗Jordan1 images ↗India4 images ↗Alexandria4 images ↗Chicago1 images ↗Meerut1 images ↗Hisar2 images ↗Shimla1 images ↗Sindh, Pakistan36 images ↗Hazara, Pakistan3 images ↗Pakistan2 images ↗Kohat1 images ↗Indore1 images ↗Mysore2 images ↗Jammu1 images ↗Kerala, India1 images ↗Wünsdorf1 images ↗Delhi38 images ↗Bobigny3 images ↗Bagneux1 images ↗Paris1 images ↗Sohag1 images ↗Fez185 images ↗Blagaj1 images ↗Andijan2 images ↗Bukhara90 images ↗Anau33 images ↗Safed Buland14 images ↗Kasan11 images ↗Kokand3 images ↗Misrian5 images ↗Merv46 images ↗Osh15 images ↗Shakhrisabz46 images ↗Turkestan16 images ↗Uzgen28 images ↗Dzharkurgan1 images ↗Agra19 images ↗Lucknow7 images ↗Sikandra3 images ↗Fatehpur Sikri1 images ↗Istok58 images ↗Klina35 images ↗Yakova1 images ↗Vučitrn2 images ↗Dolac2 images ↗Mostaganem1 images ↗Casablanca2 images ↗Rabat2 images ↗Tangier2 images ↗Blida1 images ↗Bejaia1 images ↗Sfax2 images ↗Istanbul66 images ↗Jerusalem7 images ↗Damascus1 images ↗Abey1 images ↗Tanta1 images ↗Zagazig1 images ↗Suez1 images ↗Port Said1 images ↗Al-Eizariya1 images ↗Nazareth2 images ↗Magdala1 images ↗Tarsus1 images ↗İzmir1 images ↗Asfalou1 images ↗Azemmour1 images ↗Algiers1 images ↗Guelma1 images ↗Algeria2 images ↗Setif1 images ↗Khenchela1 images ↗Constantine1 images ↗Annaba1 images ↗Gabes1 images ↗Carthage2 images ↗Kairouan1 images ↗Nabeul1 images ↗Khiva13 images ↗Bastam7 images ↗Damghan14 images ↗Gonbad-e Kavus8 images ↗Kerman7 images ↗Mahan11 images ↗Maragha9 images ↗Nain5 images ↗Nishapur1 images ↗Qazvin4 images ↗Kum1 images ↗Radkan4 images ↗Sabzevar2 images ↗Shiraz22 images ↗Soltaniyeh21 images ↗Taybad5 images ↗Varamin12 images ↗Yazd24 images ↗Ardistan7 images ↗Semnan2 images ↗Rayy2 images ↗Tus7 images ↗Torbat-e Jam4 images ↗Mashhad14 images ↗Behshahr1 images ↗Damavand5 images ↗Qadamgah1 images ↗Balkh13 images ↗Ghazni8 images ↗Gazargah9 images ↗Herat30 images ↗Mazar-i Sharif8 images ↗Mecca3 images ↗Baghdad6 images ↗
1920–1921View overlooking Bab Guissa mosque and Dar Jamai (palace)
34.0347, -5.0162
1920–1921View overlooking Bab Guissa mosque and Bab Guissa quarter
34.0347, -5.0162
1920–1921Exterior view: Bab Jial from inside the walls
34.0347, -5.0162
1920–1921Exterior view: Bab al-Fetouh and ramparts from outside
34.0347, -5.0162
1920–1921General view: mausoleums of the Seb'aton Rijal in Bab al-Fetouh cemetery
34.0347, -5.0162
1920–1921General view: marabouts in Bab Fetouh cemetery
34.0347, -5.0162
1920–1921General view: Bab Fetouh cemetery
34.0347, -5.0162
1920–1921General view: Bab Fetouh cemetery
34.0347, -5.0162
1920–1921General view: Bab Fetouh cemetery
34.0347, -5.0162
1920–1921General view: the north tower (burj)
34.0347, -5.0162
1920–1921General view: Bab Boujeloud in Fez al-Bali (Old Fez)
34.0347, -5.0162
Catalogue date · 1851–1852Cemetery and Tomb of Murad Bey in Sohag
26.5477, 31.6993
Catalogue date · 1921Portrait of Si Kaddour Ben Ghabrit
Location not yet established
Catalogue date · 1873–1895Interior of al-Nasir Muhammad Madrasa in Cairo
30.0626, 31.2497
Catalogue date · 1873–1895Interior of Amir Manjak al-Yusufi Mosque in Cairo
30.0626, 31.2497
Catalogue date · 1927Mihrab and minbar of the Paris Mosque
48.8535, 2.3484
Catalogue date · 1920Graves of Muslim soldiers in Bagneux Cemetery
48.7951, 2.3027
Catalogue date · 1935A scene from the hospital opening in Bobigny
48.9064, 2.4452
Catalogue date · 1935Guests at the hospital opening in Bobigny
48.9064, 2.4452
Catalogue date · 1935Hospital opening ceremony in Bobigny
48.9064, 2.4452
Catalogue date · 1900Taghiyev Girls’ School in Baku
40.3777, 49.8920
1868Portrait from the Tanoli community in Hazara
Location not yet established
1868Fish sellers in Sindh
Location not yet established
1868An Afghan fruit seller in Sindh
Location not yet established