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Medina. Ambarije oder Rischadije, Hauptstrasse des Westviertels, – Antique Print

Medina. Ambarije oder Rischadije, Hauptstrasse des Westviertels,, [1914?] — historic photograph
Medina. Ambarije oder Rischadije, Hauptstrasse des Westviertels,, [1914?]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Step back in time with Medina. Ambarije oder Rischadije, Hauptstrasse des Westviertels,, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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A plain city street, rather than a mosque or monument, is the focus here: the caption identifies it as the main street of the western quarter of Medina, in the Hejaz, under the names Ambarije or Rischadije. Medina was the southern terminus of the Ottoman Hejaz Railway, completed in 1908, which brought new traffic and visitors to the city. The photoprint is by B. Moritz, a German photographer, and comes from a portfolio of views of Palestine, northern Arabia and the Sinai published in Berlin by Dietrich Riemer in 1916. The date of about 1914 is unverified, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of everyday street life in the late Ottoman period.

Created / published[1914?]
Medium1 photographic print.
NotesPhotoprint by B. Moritz. No. 64 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina, Nord Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin : Dietrich Riemer, 1916. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,076 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157744

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