Zweite Anischt des Lagers der Mèjmūnahpilger

Photograph shows the tents of pilgrims during the Hajj near the tomb of Sittanā Mèymūnah, one of the wives of the Prophet Muḥammad on the outskirts of Mecca, Saudi Arabia.
Title from caption list in portfolio.
Plate no. VIII 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).