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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Városliget lake in the city park in Budapest, Hungary

Two people in rowboats on are the Városliget lake in the city park, Stadtwäldchen, in Budapest, Hungary. A third rower is heading back to a large, castle-type building, a boat house, that is on the other side of the lake from the rowers and on the left side of the photograph. The sporting house has one large onion dome circled by four small onion domes. There are four medium onion domes; two on either end and two on either side of the large onion dome. A sidewalk runs along the side of the lake on the right side of the photograph with many people sitting on benches or standing and looking at the lake. They are wearing everyday clothing. Two women wearing work clothes stand on a bank between the lake and the sidewalk holding a handle on each end of a basket. They face the camera. Printed in the margin on the below left of the photograph, "4655. Budapest. Városliget to. — Stadtwäldchenteich." Printed in the margin on the below right of the photograph, "Verlag von Stengel & Markert, Dresden."
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Széchényi Chain Bridge

A photograph of Széchényi Chain Bridge that joins Buda and Pest in Hungary by crossing the Danube River from a park below the bridge in Buda. On the right side of the photograph, St. Stephen's Basilica looms above the skyline of Pest on the other side of the bridge. Two sculpted lions on pedestals guard the entrance to the bridge. Ships are parked along the far side of the river. The sidewalks in the park at the base of the bridge in Buda, go around circular lawns. Printed in the margin on the below left of the photograph, "4604. Budapest. Lánczhild. — Kettenbrücke von Ofen gesehen." Printed in the margin on the below right of the photograph, "Verlag von Stengel & Markert, Dresden."
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Florence Villa, Kandy, Sri Lanka

Florence Villa in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon], was the home of Captain William Francis Dawson. A large tree stands in a circular lawn with a rickshaw parked by the trunk in front of a villa. Round poles support the roof over the porch than runs along the entire front side of the villa and the house. A pole supported portico covers the stairs up to the porch. Open French pane windows are installed all along the front of the villa looking out on the porch. A circular driveway is in front of the villa and around the tree. Palm trees lean toward the villa on the right side of the photograph. Printed in white ink on the lower left-hand corner of the photograph, "Florence Villa, Kandy, No. 193." Printed in white ink on the lower right-hand corner of the photograph, "C. A. Co. Ltd." Embossed in the lower left-hand corner, "Apothecaries Co Ltd, Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon."
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Villa, Sri Lanka

An unidentified building or villa in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon] sits among the trees with a parapet between the villa and the lane. Stairs lead up to a porch that runs the entire length of the building. The roof is supported by cylindrical poles that line the porch. Embossed in the lower left-hand corner, "Apothecaries Co Ltd, Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon."
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Monument to Archduke Rudolf of Hapsburg

Outdoor memorial monument, possibly by Ernst Herter, in Achilleion, Corfu, Greece, for Rudolf, Archduke of Austria and Crown Prince of Austria-Hungary. A reclining angel on a sheet knotted below his feet, rests an aida trumpet on his hip. The angel reclines just above a relief sculpture bust sculpture of Rudolf. The base of the monument reads "Rudolfus. Coronae . Princeps, Archidux . Austriae - Hungariae, Natus die 21 Augusti 1858. Obiit 30 Januarii 1889."
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Andrássy Avenue

A photograph of the buildings surrounding Andrássy courtyard on Andrássy Avenue in Budapest, Hungary. A man is exiting a carriage that stands in front of the building. The white horse hitched to the carriage hangs its head slightly. Women push a pram along the sidewalk toward the horse and carriage. A person leans on a bicycle on the extreme right side of the photograph. One the right side of the photograph a family walks away from the camera. A man is sweeping as he stands in the center of the street. Printed in the margin on the below left of the photograph, "4642. Budapest. Andrássy-udvar. — Andrassy-Hof." Printed in the margin on the below right of the photograph, "Verlag von Stengel & Markert, Dresden."
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Bullock cart and Sri Lanken men and boys in front of a market

Unidentified men and boys, barefoot and in traditional clothing, look at the camera as they stand on a sidewalk in front of an open-air market with Sinhala ulu roof, and a bullock cart in the street in front of them in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. The cart has a bowed bonnet. It is hitched to two oxen. The driver stands between two oxen. Chickens are under the cart. In the market are baskets stacked with produce and piles of mats. Printed on the lower left-hand corner in white, "Stowen."
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Schottenring in Vienna

Schottenring Street in Vienna, Austria is a wide street lined by tall buildings on both sides. Horse-drawn street cars, carriages and wagons are traveling up and down the center of the street. Crowds of people walk on the sidewalks. A double line of trees are on either side of the streetcar tracks. Streetlights line the edges of the sidewalks. Printed in the margin below the photograph, "Wien. Der Schottenring."
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Tea laborer harvesting tea leaves

A Tamil woman laborer looks down as she is plucking tea leaves from a tea bush in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. She carries a basket from a strap around her waist for the harvested leaves. She wears earrings with a necklace attached between the two earrings. Printed below the photograph in white ink, "Tamil Cooly Plucking Tea Leaf. Co. CEYLON."
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Maradana, Sri Lanka

A street scene in Maradana, a suburb of Colombo, in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. People in traditional clothing walk up and down a dirt lane between two rows of one-story buildings. Two people walking away from the camera, carry baskets balanced across their shoulders. A pulled rickshaw is coming toward the camera down the center of the lane. A wagon with a bowed bonnet is headed the other way down the lane. Trees, including palm trees, are on either side of the lane. Printed in white ink on the left bottom side of the photograph, "C. A. Co. Ltd." Printed in white ink on the right bottom side of the photograph, "Maradana. 25." Embossed on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph, "Apothecaries Co Ltd, Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon."
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Walk around Kandy Lake in Sri Lanka

Two unidentified men in traditional clothing stand along the walkway with the wall, Walakulu Bamma, between them and Kandy Lake in Sri Lanka {then Ceylon]. A row of trees separates the walkway from the lane. An unidentified woman holding an open umbrella, walks on the lane toward the camera. A carriage going away from the camera is on the lane near a building on the right. On the other side of the lane, on the right side of the photograph, is a statue of Sir Henry Ward standing on a monument in a small park.
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Perahera

A street in Sri Lanka is very crowded as the Perahera, an annual Buddhist procession during the Festival of the Tooth in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon], moves down the street. The parade down the center has lines of men in traditional clothing or costume, a line of elephants, three across, wearing decorative covers over their heads called, seeri, and blankets over their backs. On the elephant in the middle is a howdah. Over the howdah is a canopy held up on six long, thin poles held by six men walking along either side of the elephant. Men ride on the backs of the two elephants on either side of the center elephant. Behind the row of elephants are men playing instruments and dancing. Along both sides of the road are crowds of people watching the parade. Printed on the bottom left of the photograph in white ink, "The Perahera - An Annual Buddhist Procession - ." Printed on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph in white ink, "Scowen & Co. Ceylon."
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Street performers in Sri Lanka

Three unidentified, barefoot street performers pose on a path in front of a cliff in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. Two dancers in costume gesture with their hands and arms toward the man in the center, as they stand on either side of a drummer holding a gata bera drum with each hand on either end and across his body. Printed on the bottom left-hand corner in white ink, "Keen & Co. 1180."
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Boy from Sri Lanka

A profile view of the head and chest of an unidentified boy in Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. His hair is pulled back in a low bun just above his neck. Printed in white ink on the bottom right-hand corner, "Skeen & Co., 1117."
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Royal palace complex

Kandy Lake with the royal palace complex, containing Temple of the Tooth (Dalada Maligawa), in the background on the other side of the lake in Kandy, Sri Lanka [then Ceylon]. A Sri Lankan man on the right side of the photograph, walks along a sidewalk that runs by the lake. A few trees hang over the lake between the sidewalk and the lake. Embossed in the lower left -hand corner, "Apothecaries Co Ltd, Photographers, Colombo, Ceylon." Printed in white ink on the bottom left-hand corner, "Scowen."
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