Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography collection, 1788-1960

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Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography collection, 1788-1960

1788-1960

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The Ken and Jenny Jacobson Orientalist Photography collection comprises over 4,500 photographic images of the Middle East and North Africa. The majority of the images were created between 1850 and 1920 and record a period when the "Orient," increasingly open and accessible to the West, exerted a compelling allure on western viewers, travelers, scholars and entrepreneurs alike. Works by 164 different photographers and studios present an overwhelmingly western vision of and response to Egypt, the Maghreb and the Levant.

147.7 Linear Feet (103 boxes, 3 flatfile folders)

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