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>