Jacob L. Loose Collection

Description
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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LaBudde Special Collections
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Marble funeral vase

Marble funeral vase in a museum in Athens, Greece. Printed in white ink in the bottom, right-hand corner, "808."
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Marble funeral vase

Marble funeral vase in a museum in Athens, Greece. Printed in white ink in the bottom, left-hand corner, "809."
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Catholic church

A Catholic church in Dresden stands next to a castle as seen from across the formal grounds. A statue stands on the right side of the photograph. Printed in white ink on the bottom, left-hand corner, "19. Dresden, Katholische Hofkirche (vom Zwingerwall gesehen)".
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Funerary relief monument

Funerary stele for a woman, Hegeso, an Athenian noblewoman, being handed a box by a slave woman in Athens.
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Achilleion palace

A group of unidentified people, possibly workers, stop for a moment for a photograph around the gateway in front of Achilleion Palace in Corfu, Greece. There are also three men standing on the roof. The light-colored palace stands on a rise above a tall rock wall with a gateway into the grounds around the palace.
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Staircase to Achilleion palace

Statuary on pedestals beside the stairway leading up to the Achilleion Palace in Corfu, Greece.
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Fort above the village

The old fortress of Corfu, Greece, sits on a cliff above the harbor and village. A few people stand in the park or sit on benches around the edge of the park in the foreground of the photograph.
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Tomb of Menecrates

The tomb of Menecrates in Corfu, Greece, is a partially subterranean, circularly rock structure with carved writing around the edges. Trees and a building sit on the park-like land around the tomb.
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Achilleion Palace courtyard

Statues grace the base of the each column surrounding a courtyard in Achilleion Palace in Corfu, Greece. Large murals decorate the walls behind the columns. Benches sit on a porch below the murals and behind the columns. A table with a cloth and a chair with a patterned cover sit on the porch on the right side of the photograph.
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Harbor and village

A view of the village above the harbor at Corfu, Greece, includes a ship moored in the harbor, low buildings along the water side and taller buildings on the cliffs above the water. A fort structure sits at the highest elevation on cliffs above the village.
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Areopagus outcropping

Areopagus is a prominent rock outcropping located northwest of the Acropolis in Athens, Greece. Printed in white ink script on the bottom, left-hand corner of the photograph, "54. Aréopage." Printed in white ink on the bottom, right-hand corner of the photograph, "54."
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Acropolis

A general view of all of the Acropolis, Thessee Temple, in Athens, Greece. Written in white ink script on the bottom, left-hand corner of the photograph, "1. Vue générale de l'Acropole et Temple de Thésée." Printed in white ink on the bottom, right-hand corner of the photograph, "1."
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Roman Agora and Tower of the Winds

Apartment buildings surround the ruins of the Roman Agorra market including the Tower of the Winds, a time-keeping structure, in Athens, Greece.
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Temple ruins

Temple ruins, with a few boulder strewn about, stand in a flat field.
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Acropolis

General view of the Acropolis taken from the Thessus. Lower buildings along the valley lead up to the columns of ruined larger buildings and eventually to the largest ruined building on top of the hill in the center of the photograph. Printed in white ink script along the bottom of the photograph, "3 Vue générale de l'Acropole prise de l'Théssus." Printed in white ink on the bottom, right-hand corner of the photograph, "3".
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