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Félix Bonfils

Femmes musulmanes Syriennes à Beyrouth, Costume de Ville

c. 1867–78
Albumen print from glass plate negative

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Many Westerners found the full veils worn by Muslim women in mid-nineteenth-century Beirut both fascinating and disturbing.

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