Holy Land Digital Image Collections

Bain, Robert E. M

Marriage ceremony in Cairo [Graphic]

Earthly Footsteps of The Man of Galilee Being Three Hundred and Eighty-Four Original Photographic Views and Descriptions of the Places Connected with the Earthly Life of Our Lord and His Apostles Traced with Note Book and Camera showing where Christ was born, brought up, baptized, tempted, transfigured and crucified, together with the scenes of his prayers, tears, miracles and sermons, and also places made sacred by the labors of his apostles, from Jerusalem to Rome by Bishop John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D., Rev. James W. Lee, D.D., and R.E.M. Bain. London: W.A. Hammond, Holborn Hall, E.C.

St. Louis, 1894.

1 photograph : b&w ; 2 5.4 x 17.8 cm ( 10 x 7 in).

Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Daniel, iv.)--The picturesqueness of Oriental civilization strikes with great force every one upon his first visit to the East. There is much of color everywhere. The people seem to be slow and dull and to possess a large share of physical inertia and repose, but if we look outside to the material elements of Eastern civilization, everything is so highly colored as would naturally lead one to suppose that they were the expressions of excited imagination. The scene which we give above of a marriage ceremony in Cairo is of a piece with the whole of Egyptian civilization. The scene is festive and picturesque to the last degree. One would suppose from seeing such a procession go by that the parties were playing at marriage. The procession is headed by a body of musicians, and amid it all there is laughter and shouting and the jingle of tambourines." See 5150BAI/LVi68CAJS (Voyager # 358017)

Two camels haul a litter with two people inside

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Marriage Customs And Rites

Women

5342BAI/LVii68CAJS

CAJS Image Collection LVii BAI 5342 LVii68CAJS

The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Egypt

Cairo (Egypt)