Arabs in Tripoli

This photograph of a street scene in Tripoli, Libya, is from the George Grantham Bain Collection at the. The collection contains approximately 40,000 glass plate negatives and 50,000 photographic prints, most dating from the 1900s to the mid-1920s. Bain, who was born in 1865 and died in 1944, founded the New York-based in 1898. Specializing in news about New York City and, to a lesser degree, the eastern United States, Bain distributed its own pictures and those purchased from other commercial agencies to about 100 newspapers. While focusing on the United States, the also provided coverage of other countries. Although little information about this photograph has survived, it most likely was acquired and distributed by Bain in connection with news of the 1911-12 Italo-Turkish War in which Italy wrested control of Libya from the Ottoman Empire. Street scenes; Turco-Italian War, 1911-1912; Women

Date

1910–1915

Archive

Library of Congress (via Wikimedia Commons)

Type

photograph

Original size

1,393 × 1,024 pixels

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