Coming out of a snow-covered "igloo" - a winter home in the Artics - Ellesmere Land

A closer view permits us to peak into the very depths of the flowers of the Convolvulus or "Morning Glory"

Close-up view of the California poppy, Eschocholtzia californica

Royal Prince Pu Lun, future emperor of China, guest of Indianapolis, Ind. Week of May 17th, 1904

Royal Prince Pu Lun, future emperor of China, guest of Indianapolis, Ind., week of May 17th, 1904

Royal Prince Pu Lun, future emperor of China, with Mayor Holtzman's party attending Moy Kee's reception, May 20, 1904

Royal Prince Pu Lun, future emperor of China, with Mayor Holtzman's party attend Moy Kee's reception, May 20, 1904

Royal Prince Pu Lun, future emperor of China, with Mayor Holtzman's party attend Moy Kee's reception, May 20, 1904

Royal Prince Pu Lun, future emperor of China, with Mayor Holtzman's party attending Moy Kee's reception, May 20, 1904

Chicago Exposition Views, by Gentile "The A.F. Bellows group" /

Jewish scribes at work, Jerusalem, Palestine

Roshpinah, the Jewish colony, supported by Baron Rothschild in the mountain of Galilee, Palestine

Music school, Syria

Courtyard of old Kahn[i.e., han], showing loaded caravan, Shechem, Palestine

The native mode of grinding coffee, Palestine

View of Jerusalem, from the Mount of Olives, Palestine

Natives of Bethlehem on their way to Jerusalem

Crusaders' Chapel in the Citadel, Hunin, Palestine

The most primitive reeling tools for silk thread, Mt. Lebanon, Syria

A skillful Arab weaver and his primitive loom weaving the finest of Syrian silk

Daberath, Palestine

Native women and child of Jericho, Palestine

Deadening worms in silk cocoons by steam, Antioch, Syria

Cooling and drying silk cocoons after deadening process, Antioch, Syria

Loosening cocoon fiber and winding on frames, silk mill, Beyrout, Syria

Experts purchasing silk cacoons [i.e., cocoons], for export to France, Antioch, Syria

A basket full of wriggling silk worms hungry for the morning meal, Syria

Feeding silk-worms their breakfast of mulberry leaves, Mt. Lebanon, Syria

Boiling cocoons to loosen fibre ends in Syria's largest silk reeling plant, Mt. Lebanon

In a Syrian silk plant; examining and weighing raw silk ready for export