All Photographs from Images of Women, by Sarah Graham-Brown. (Columbia University Press, 1988).


 

Women working in a silk factory, Bursa, Turkey. Published in Sehbal Magazine, 1910.

 


 
 

Bedouin woman at a camp south of the town of Batna, Algeria., c. 1914.





A cotton ginning factory at Sakha in the Egyptian Delta. Early twentieth century.





 
 

Women carrying river mud from the Nile to enrich the soil. Egypt, early twentieth century.







Top:(1) A woman coolie (sic) feeding her cow. Yemen, 1924-1926.  Middle: (2) Two women grinding corn in a hand mill, Palestine, 1920. Bottom: (3) Arab women (and one man) selling fruit to British soldiers on their way upriver. Iraq, 1917.
 
 
 


 
 

Girl working at a new building, Khartoum, Sudan, 1907-1908.