Файл:Zangaki. 0896. Arab with Three Wives and Two Servants.jpg

BPLDC no.: 08_04_000051

Page Title: Arab with Three Wives and Two Servants

Collection: Tupper Scrapbooks Collection

Album: Volume 26: Lower Egypt. Pyramids.

Call no. 4098B.104 v26 (p. 50)

Creator: Tupper, William Vaughn

Description: Scrapbook page with a photograph of an Egyptian man standing next to a cart with five people riding in it.

Subjects: Group portraits Egypt travel photography Carts & wagons Spouses

Page size: 33 x 38.1 cm

Annotations: On their weekly Friday excursion to the cemetery. Amoung the Muslims the separation of the sexes is as strict after death as his life. In family vaults one side is set apart for the men and the other for the women exclusively.

Language: English, photograph titled in French

Rights: No known restrictions.

Coverage: Egypt

Notes: Title supplied by cataloger, derived from captions or annotated information.

Format: Scrapbooks

Technique: Photographs, Albumen prints

BPL Department: Print Department

Photo 1: Photographer: Zangaki, Constantine

Title: No. 896 visite de cimitier

Caption: Arab with three wives and two servants

Date: ca. 1860-1890

Flickr data on 2011-08-03:

• Camera: Sinar AG Sinarback 54 FW, Sinar m
• License: CC BY 2.0
• User: Boston Public Library BPL