Erste Ansicht der Stadt Mekka: links im Hintergrund die Festung Djijād. Das grosse Gebäude rechts ist ied [i.e., die] Hamīdijjah, links daneben die Druckerei

Photograph shows view of buildings in Mecca including the Hamīdijjah, a government building constructed during the reign of Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II; the printing house and the Jiyād fortress in the background. Buildings in image no longer exist because the area has been expanded to accommodate pilgrims to the Hajj.
Title from caption list in portfolio.
Photograph is the left section of a four part panorama which includes Plates III, IV and V.
Plate no. II in portfolio: Bilder aus Mekka, C. Snouck Hurgronje. Leiden : E. J. Brill, 1889.
Photograph attributed to al-Sayyid ʻAbd al-Ghaffār by scholar Claude Sui. (Source: "Travel to the Holy Land and photography in the nineteenth century" by Claude Sui. Chapter in: To the Holy Lands: Pilgrimage centres from Mecca and Medina to Jerusalem. Mannheim: Reiss-Engelhorn Museum, 2008, pages 56-63)
Stamped with chop of former owner: Minami Manshū Tetsudō Kabushiki Kaisha Tōa Keizai Chōsakyoku zōsho no in (in position of Southern Manchuria Railroad Co. East Asia Economic Research Division).