Travelers in the Middle East collection of travel guides, narratives and images
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the physical materials that are represented digitally in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), a collection created to make possible the study of Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travel to Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The materials are of diverse types: images in the forms of post cards, photographs, and stereograph films; articles, pamphlets, and travel guidebooks; maps, and souvenirs.
Dates
- Creation: 1852 - 2004
Conditions Governing Access
This material is open for research.
Conditions Governing Access
Stored off-site at the Library Service Center. Please request this material via woodson@rice.edu or call 713-348-2586.
Conditions Governing Use
Permission to publish material from the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) Collection must be obtained through the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library.
Biographical / Historical
The Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA) is an archive of materials that reflect Western
interactions with the Middle East, particularly Egypt, during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This collection is composed of physical items in the archive apart from illustrations and photographs in books that are referenced in the related digital project, which is online at timea.rice.edu. These physical items are a variety of formats, including travel guides, museum catalogs, travel narratives; post cards and stereographic views of monuments, street scenes, people, and events; maps; pamphlets; souvenir programs; and souvenir objects.
The collection was assembled by Dr. Paula Sanders, Professor of History at Rice University. Many of the items were acquired over the period of time she prepared to write Creating Medieval Cairo: Empire, religion, and architectural preservation in nineteenth-century Egypt (American University in Cairo Press, 2008). Her gathering of items began when she was Scholar in Residence at the American Research Center in Egypt in 1995-96.
Extent
4 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of the physical materials that are represented digitally in the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), a collection created to make possible the study of Western interactions with the Middle East, particularly travel to Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. The materials are of diverse types: images in the forms of post cards, photographs, and stereograph films; articles, pamphlets, and travel guidebooks; maps, and souvenirs.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Donated by Dr. Paula Sanders, January 2016.
Genre / Form
Topical
- Title
- Guide to the Travelers in the Middle East collection of travel guides, narratives and images, circa 1852-2004
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Mary Tobin / Amanda Focke
- Date
- 2017
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Woodson Research Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas Repository
Fondren Library MS-44, Rice University
6100 Main St.
Houston Texas 77005 USA
713-348-2586
woodson@rice.edu