Djeddah early XXth century first impression of recent days

Carefully sorting and cleaning (from the glass side only)  the most treasured glass plates - stored in carton boxes, regretfully covered with dust. Yes, the family agrees it can and should be shared! Incredible learning - how to scan all this stuff: they appear to be much more detailed than that what could be scanned with 600 dpi (if needed at all). But it is still a treasure, look it up further here in the blog.

Djeddah, between 1900 and 1907. (c) J.A.Hooft
It was still the Ottoman Empire before the 1st World War.