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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Queen Anne's bedroom

Queen Anne's bedroom in Hampton Court Palace in London, England, shows a four-post bed with the same ornate fabric covering the bedposts, bed, bed back wall, canopy, bed bench, side chair, ottoman, and wall bench in the center of the photograph. A bit of the fireplace is on the extreme left. A chandelier above brings the eye to the numerous paintings on every inch of the surrounding walls. A guard fence is in the foreground of the photograph.
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South front of Hampton Court

South front of the Tudor-style Hampton Court Palace in London, England. A row of potted trees sit along a fence that runs the entire length of the palace. Repetitive windows beneath a long flat skyline with contrast between the darker brick and the paler stone quoins, frames and banding. There are circular and decorated windows of the second-floor mezzanine with square paned windows on the floor above and rectangular paned windows on the row below. The street-level windows are square with an arched top.
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Interior of Henry VII's chapel at Westminster Abbey

Henry VII Chapel, Westminster Abbey; London, England. A view of the brass gate, a row of seats, and the two rows of crest flags hanging on either side of the chamber. Printed in white ink along the bottom of the photograph, "745. Henry VII's Chapel. Westminster Abbey."
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Choir of Westminster Abbey

Choir section from the east and looking west of Westminster Abbey in London, England. The Gothic style interior has two rows of stalls facing each other on either side of the checkerboard tile floor. An ornate music stand is in the bottom center of the photograph. The top center of the photograph shows the stained glass west window of the nave. Printed in white ink along the bottom of the photograph, "48 Westminster Abbey, The Choir from the East."
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Brighton Beach

Panorama of Brighton Beach in Brighton England. People relax on the beach or comb for shells or sea life in the water. Many utilize umbrellas. Several row boats and one sailboat are beached on the shore. There are benches among the beachgoers and boats, but no one is using them. A stone pier runs along the bottom of the photograph. Kings Road runs between the beach and the buildings of Brighton. Under the road toward the beach, 25 arched doorways face the beach. On down the road from the doorways, a triangular ramp supported by a building underneath, allows beachgoers to go up or come down from Kings Road. Seven arched windows are centered on the building that the ramp is built on. Several people are on the ramp. The arched doorways under Kings Road, some with awnings, continue after the ramp all the way down the beach. On Kings Road are horses and carriages with drivers and people riding horses, and other walking. The first seven-story building with a spire in the center across Kings Road on the left side of the photograph is Hotel Metropole. Many of the windows of the hotel that look out to sea over a balcony, have awnings. The portico into the hotel has a gabled roof. The promenade shelter at the street in front of the hotel has a hip roof. A few buildings stand between Hotel Metropole and the next large building, the Grand Hotel. The Grand hotel is seven stories tall with balconies facing the beach along each story. Other lower buildings follow the grand on down Kings Road many with awnings over the sidewalks outside of their entrances. Large waves are visible on the right center of the photograph.
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North front of the Rosslyn Chapel

The north front of the Rosslyn Chapel in Roslin, Scotland, of the Gothic architecture style of the church. Printed in white ink on the bottom center of the photograph, "North Front, Rosslyn Chapel. 6374. G.W.W."
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Great Hall of Hampton Court Palace

The Great Hall [Wolsey Hall] of the Hampton Court Palace in London, England. All of the walls are lined with tapestries in the Gothic Perpendicular style room. Shoulder mounts of several species with antlers are hung above the tapestries between each window or beside each sculpture on the entrance wall. Spare tables and chairs sit in the hall. Each stained glass window on the side wall are two rows of four arched panes. The entrance wall has two stained glassed windows at the ceiling of two arched panes each. Below those windows and above the doorway is a large stained glass window of three rows of windows. The top row of 14 arched panes. The two rows below the top row are made up of eight arched panes each row, the bottom row being shorter heights windows than the middle row. Above the entry door are three statues. One either side above the door is a knight standing guard. Directly above the door is a knight slaying a dragon.
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Queen Mary's bower

Queen Mary's bower, a view of an arched opening of a shade-covered walkway through an arbor of elm trees on the grounds of Hampton Court Palace in London, England.
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man with a backpack

An unidentified man from his left side in Tangier, Morocco. He stands on long grass with a backdrop behind him. He wears a turban, a short robe, shorts, and shoes without heels. He carries a full backpack made of fur. In his right hand he carries a bell that is on a fob with small chains hanging from the fob. In his left hand he carries a short baton with a piece of leather hanging from the end. A rope wraps around a piece of the side of the backpack and the other end of the rope wraps around the end of the baton. His head is bowed but his eyes lifted looking forward.
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View of Tangier from the beach of the Bay of Tangier

Panorama of the coastline of the Bay of Tangier looking back at the city of Tangier, Morocco. On the beach, locals are walking along side packed mules at the water side. Others walk along the beach. Small sheds are on the beach. A long low building or wall with a few other two-story buildings sit at the base of the hill that rises between the beach and the city of Tangiers.
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Liberian coffee plant

Close-up photograph of a Liberian coffee plant with flowers, fruit, and leaves. Printed caption on the bottom center right in white, "Coffea Liberia - Liberian Coffee. -. Handwritten in white ink on the bottom left hand corner, "Scowen, & Co., Ceylon." Handwritten twice in dark ink, "SCOWEN."
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woman wearing a chador

An unidentified woman wearing a chador covers her lips with a hand that is under the chador Tangier, Morocco, and looks directly at the camera with her head bent slightly forward. She stands in front of a backdrop.
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Bay of Tangier from The Median in Tangier

A photograph of the Bay of Tangier beyond the Grand Mosque minaret and surrounding building rooftops inside The Medina in Tangier, Morocco.
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Jacob and Ella Loose at Jīzah, Egypt

Jacob Loose stands with his left side to the camera as he looks at a local guide who may be a teenage boy. A camel is lying on the ground beside the guide with his neck stretched flat on the ground. Ella Loose is seated on a camel behind Jacob with a local guide standing beside the camel holding the lead. Great Pyramids are behind the Great Sphinx which loom behind the party in Giza, Egypt. The Great Sphinx is visible between Jacob Loose and Ella Loose. A saddled donkey stands with his back to the group on the left side of the photograph. Small groups of other people are on the far left and far right of the photograph.
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Jacob and Ella Loose at Jīzah, Egypt

Three local guides stand next to the two camels that they are leading that Jacob Loose and Ella Loose are riding, at the Great Sphinx and the pyramids in Giza, Egypt. Another local person is climbing up by the chin of the Great Sphinx. Ella rides side saddle. A pyramid is behind the Great Sphinx.
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