Moorish Gallery

Mitchells Corn Palace, Mitchell, South Dakota, USA

Mitchell's Corn Palace, The World's Only Corn Palace at Mitchell, South Dakota, USA. The card notes that this building is redecorated annually at a cost of $10, 000 in natural colored grains and grasses. The annual festival is held the last week in September and the building is open free the year around. It is the most outstanding exhibit of nature's wonderful colors blended into interesting designs and pictures by skilled decorators'. The Russian-style onion domes and Moorish minarets were added in 1937. Date: circa 1937

© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection

King Ali's tent at Benowm, Kingdom of Ludamar

View of a moorish camp: King Ali's tent at Benowm, Kingdom of Ludamar. Ali sat on a black leather cushion clipping the hairs on his upper lip while a female servant held a mirror. From Mungo Park's Travels in the Interior of Africa. Copperplate engraving by Dell'Acqua handcoloured by Lazaretti from Giovanni Battista Sonzogno's Collection of the Most Interesting Voyages (Raccolta de Viaggi Piu Interessanti), Milan, 1815-1817. Date:

© Florilegius/Mary Evans

The Golden Tower, Seville, Spain, from Spanish Pictures by Reverend Samuel Manning

KW268382 The Golden Tower, Seville, Spain, from Spanish Pictures by Reverend Samuel Manning, published in 1870 (engraving) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Muslim watchtower once part of the Almohad city walls; supposed to have been covered in golden tiles; the highest part of the tower was added by Sebastiano Vander Borcht in 1760;); Ken Welsh; English, out of copyright

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