Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile.

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Oriental album. Characters, costumes, and modes of life, in the valley of the Nile.

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Collection History

Many 19th century plate books on customs and costume came to NYPL from the founding Lenox and Astor library holdings, as well as the personal library of benefactor Samuel J. Tilden. Many of the titles chosen for digitization show dress in the context of ethnicity or nationality. Related dress materials, such as accessories and body ornamentation, are also included.

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See also the following digital collections for additional regional works: [Africana & Black History; Asia and the Pacific Rim in Early Prints and Photographs; The Luso-Hispanic New World in Early Prints and Photographs; After Columbus: Four-hundred Years of Native American Portraiture; and Icons and Images of Cultures: Plate Books from the Russian Empire, Early Soviet Russia, and Eastern Europe, 1730-1935]

- 9/23/2004

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Names: Prisse d'Avennes, 1807-1879 (Artist); St. John, James Augustus, 1795-1875 (Author)
Dates / Origin: Date Issued: 1851; Place: London; Publisher: James Madden
Library locations: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Art & Architecture Collection; Shelf locator: MMR++ (Oriental album: characters, costumes, and modes of life)
Topics: Egypt -- Social life and customs
Genres: Prints; Illustrations
Notes: Ownership: Lenox Library; Statement of responsibility: Illustrated from designs taken on the spot, by E. Prisse. With descriptive letter-press, by James Augustus St. John.
Physical Description: Extent: 3 p.¡., 60 p. front. (port.) 30 col. plates. 45 cm.; Chromolithographs
Type of Resource: Still image
Identifiers: RLIN/OCLC: NYPGR4423031-B; NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b11704804; Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 5c43b4a0-c6c4-012f-8c10-3c075448cc4b