Jidda - five street-scenes

photographs

Five street scenes, black and white photographs, all full page, from Lawrence's own camera.

'Jeddah' typeset brc on dark area. Tall buildings viewed between the dark nearer walls of other buildings. Small figure walking off right.

'Jedda' typeset brc on a light grey area. Near view of a number of tall buildings, two figures on low balcony in foreground, and two small figures brc.

'Jeddah' typeset brc on dark area. Close view of tall buildings going off around left-hand corner. The buildings in the background are lighter in colour, and there are many balconies in view.

'Jiddah' typeset brc in a light area. A narrow street, with two figures working, left of centre, beneath an awning, and a boy in the bottom right foreground [tr ed p 72].

'Jeddah' typeset brc in light area. View completely blocked by buildings; a white one in the centre, flanked by darker ones, has three latticed windows at the top, one above the other. Small figure of man in white facing camera bottom centre, and one other figure going left.

The captioning and listing of these photographs gave Lawrence the opportunity to spell the place name in four different ways!

p 48 [tr ed p 72] - 'It was indeed a remarkable town. The streets were alleys, wood roofed in the main bazaar, but elsewhere open to the sky in the little gap between the tops of the lofty white-walled houses. These were built four or five stories high, of coral rag tied with square beams and decorated by wide bow-windows running from ground to roof in grey wooden panels. There was no glass in Jidda, but a profusion of good lattices, and some very delicate shallow chiselling on the panels of window casings.'

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