Jacob L. Loose Collection

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Businessman and humanitarian Jacob Loose and his philanthropist wife Ella were frequent travelers.  The collection is comprised of images from their early 20th century trips around the world, featuring views of locales as varied as Africa, Ceylon, India, Palestine, and numerous western European countries.
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Dar el Makhzen, sultan's palace in Tangier, Morocco

Dar el Makhzen, the sultan's palace in Tangier, Morocco. Three of the local people are walking through an entranceway wearing customary local clothing.
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Woman in repose in Tangier, Morocco

An unidentified Moroccan woman in repose on her left side in Tangier, Morocco. Her eyes look a bit to the right and not at the camera. She boosts herself from two stacked mattresses, a mat, and two round pillows by leaning on with her left forearm. Her shoes lie on the floor on a rug by the couch. She wears a hat, large hoop earrings, a bracelet on each wrist, and a ring on third finger of her left hand. Her robe is held by a wide waistband. The opening of the robe has short tassels.
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Procession in Tangier, Morocco

Procession of people in a public square in Tangier, Morocco. One man rides a horse on a roadway ahead of a few other men on horses behind him; all others walk. Some hold large flags. Others hold long poles. There are several mules with packs on their backs. All are wearing customary local clothing. There is a row of buildings behind the huge crowd.
Type: Image
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Grand Moorish Bazaar

Street scene showing the Grand Moorish Bazaar, a mosque and its Grand Mosque minaret, and other buildings in Tangier, Morocco. A few local people walk down the sidewalk between the buildings.
Type: Image
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Buda Castle Tunnel in Budapest, Hungary.

People and a dog stand and walk along the sidewalks on either side of the road leading through the Buda Castle Tunnel in Budapest, Hungary. Carriages, a pushcart, and a man on a horse use the road that leads through the tunnel. A man with a sword at his side hanging from a belt and wearing a backpack, stands in the middle of the road looking at the camera. Two billboard type signs are on the wall to the left of the tunnel but are not fully visible. All that is visible on the top is Krayer E. esT. All that is visible on the bottom is owasser J. There is a large post to post to advertising bills on the left side of the sidewalk next to a triple streetlight. A staircase leads up the mountain to the castle on top of the tunnel on the left side of the photograph. Printed in the margin on the below left of the photograph, "4636. Budapest. Alagut-Buda. — Tunnel in Ofen. Printed in the margin on the below right of the photograph, "Verlag von Stengel & Markert, Dresden."
Type: Image
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Széchényi Chain Bridge

Panoramic photograph of Széchényi Chain Bridge, that joins Buda and Pest in Hungary by crossing the Danube River. In the center back of the photograph among the buildings of Pest, St. Stephen's Basilica looms above the skyline. Two sculpted lions on pedestals guard the entrance to the bridge. People are blurred in the photograph as they cross the bridge by either walking on the sidewalks on the left and right sides of the road down the center or walking, pushing a cart, or riding on the road in the center. Ships are parked along the far side of the river. Printed in the margin on the below left of the photograph, "4626. Budapest. Panorama von der k. Burg mit Kettenbrücke." Printed in the margin on the below right of the photograph, "Verlag von Stengel & Markert, Dresden."
Type: Image
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View of Gellért Hill, Budapest, Hungary

A view of Gellért Hill with the Gellért Citadel on top of the hill in Budapest, Hungary. A paddle steamer ferry, Hatty U, is in the foreground crossing the Danube river with a few passengers aboard. Another vessel is further across the river on the left side of the photograph. Three buildings sit along the bay's edge below the cliffs of Gellért Hill. The one furthest to the left has the words, "Rudas Furdo" panted across the roofline. This is a Turkish bath house. Printed in the margin on the below left of the photograph, "4611. Budapest. Gellérthegyról. — Blocksberg." Printed in the margin on the below right of the photograph, "Verlag von Stengel & Markert, Dresden."
Type: Image
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Széchenyi Island

A boy holding a cannister in one hand stands on the bank between a trail and a pond in the city park in Budapest, Hungary. In the pond, two men are facing each other on either end of a skiff from which the man in the stern is paddling. A footbridge over the water on the left side of the photograph leads to Széchényi Island. The island is forested and has a walking trail that goes through trellises to an lookout over the pond. A lower trail by the water leads to a rock tunnel under the trellis garden. Printed in the margin on the below left of the photograph, "4656. Budapest. Széchényi-Insel." Printed in the margin on the below right of the photograph, "Verlag von Stengel & Markert, Dresden."
Type: Image
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Ferenc Deák Monument in Budapest, Hungary

Three boys pose with swagger in front of the Ferenc Deák Monument in Budapest, Hungary. A circular park surrounds the statue and building are behind it. Printed in the margin on the below left of the photograph, "4632. Budapest. Deakszobor. — Deak-Monument." Printed in the margin in the below right of the photograph, "Verlag von Stengel & Markert, Dresden."
Type: Image
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Gate through the wall in Tangier, Morocco

Two unidentified men seen through a gateway with the city skyline including a mosque behind them in Tangier, Morocco. This is possibly the Bab el-Kasbah (Gate of the Kasbah). the open door to one side of the gate is visible on the left. One man walks up a step toward the gate as another stands to the side reading an item he holds in his hand. Both are in customary local clothing.
Type: Image
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Panoramic view of the Grand Socco marketplace

Panorama of the public market, Grand Socco, the skyline of Tangier on the hill above the marketplace, and the Bay of Tangier in the background in Tangier, Morocco. Crowds sit, stand, and walk about the market wearing customary local clothing as horses graze and packed donkeys wait.
Type: Image
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Two Vedda men in Sri Lanka

Two unidentified Vedda men wearing traditional clothing sit with axes, bows and arrows in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. One man sits on what appears to be a rock with straw on top of it. The other man sits on the ground. A bush stands behind the men. Printed in black ink in the bottom left-hand corner, "Scowen." Printed in white ink on the bottom left-hand corner, "Charles T. Scowen and Co. Ceylon." The words Charles T. Scowen and is mostly faded. Printed in white ink below the two seated men, "Veddahs."
Type: Image
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Grand Oriental Hotel in Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Grand Oriental Hotel and street intersection in Colombo, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. People stand in the road by the side of the hotel on the left side of the photograph. A man pulling a rickshaw, a loaded cart being attended two by several men, and a carriage also use the street. A sign hangs from the eve over street, "Ceylon Views." On the right side of the photograph, a horse and carriage stand in front of the hotel. The sign at the top of the hotel is partially out of the photograph. We are able to see "Grand Orient Hotel.' Printed in white ink on the bottom left-hand corner, "C. A. Co. LTD." Printed in white ink on the bottom center, "Columbo, No. 77."
Type: Image
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Singhalese fishing boat

A Sri Lankan man stands by the mast of the sail on the framework where the outrigger is attached to the boat in a Sinhalese fishing boat called a Bala Oruwa that sits on the beach in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. Another man sits in the stern. On down the beach, two men carry an outrigger toward the water. At the end of the beach, five mean stand facing the camera. A covered wagon with a bowed bonnet sits at the tree line beside the beach. Palm trees line the entire coast. Printed in dark ink on the bottom left-hand corner, "Scowen." Printed in white ink on the bottom left-hand corner, "Singhalese fishing boat. No. 67. C. A. Co. Ceylon."
Type: Image
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Temple of the Tooth in Kandy, Sri Lanka

Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa) in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon], is surrounded by a moat that has a parapet between the moat and the lane and then between the most and the temple on the left side of the photograph. An octagonal building with a pointed roof stands toward the left center of the photograph. A square gateway over the moat with arched doorways is built into the parapet around the temple. A man on a horse-drawn carriage is coming down the lane by the steps into the gateway. another man walks down the lane in the center of the photograph. On the right side of the photograph, two men stand in a park between to street lights and below a pole of prayer flags hung on circular wire around the pole. A conical structure looms behind them. Printed in white ink along the bottom of the photograph, "Dalada Maligawa - Temple of the Tooth, Kandy." Printed in white ink on the left-hand corner, "C. A. Co. LTD."
Type: Image
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