Images of Socotra, Mocha and Luhayya
In 1829 Captain Charles Francklin Head set out from Bombay for the Red Sea. His sailing vessel passed by Socotra, Aden, Mocha and...
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Picturing Yemen with Giovanni Canova
The Italian scholar Giovanni Canova recently (2019) published a book of photographs he took in Yemen during the 1980s. Here are just a...
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The Ḥaḍramawt in 1931
The Dutch civil servant David van der Meulen and the German explorer Hermann von Wissman visited the Ḥaḍramawt in 1931 and apparently...
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Yemen in 1901
The German explorer Hermann Burchardt visited Yemen in 1901 and took photographs, including those of Yemenite Jews. Several of these...
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Yemeni Fashion in 1873
It is rare to find photographs of Yemenis in the 19th century, especially ordinary people and not members of the elite. A series of...
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Lady Elwood in Hodeidah in 1825
Between 1825 and 1828 an English lady named Anne Katharine Elwood accompanied her husband, a colonel in the British service, to India. On...
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