10.25377/sussex.7253159.v1 Freja Howat-Maxted Freja Howat-Maxted Leila Sansour Leila Sansour Jacob Norris Jacob Norris Men at the entrance to the Church of the Nativity, c.1900-1920 University of Sussex 2020 Nativity Church collection Ottoman Empire in Bethlehem Nativity Church Tarbush Bethlehem traditional dress Bethlehem churches Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history 2020-01-30 12:07:35 Dataset https://sussex.figshare.com/articles/dataset/Men_at_the_entrance_to_the_Church_of_the_Nativity_c_1900-1920/7253159 This is a digital reproduction of an image held at the Library of Congress. <div><br></div><div>This photograph shows a group of men standing at the entrance to the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem dressed in traditional attire. All the men in the image wear the tarbush, a close-fitting, flat-topped, brimless hat shaped like a truncated cone made of felt and a silk tassel that was popular during the Ottoman period. This is a cropped version of the image held at the Library of Congress. </div><div><br></div><div>This image exists as part of the Nativity Church collection within the Library of Congress project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.</div>