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Archive Reference (shelfmark) Photo 1296 Subject Architectural Styles

1. Photo 1296(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1296(2)
Title:
Cairo, home of the Arabian Nights, greatest city of Africa, [view looking] N.W. from Saladin's Citadel to Nile, Egypt. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view, overlooking Ramleh Place and the Sultan Hasan Mosque. Copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood, 1904.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1904
Extent:
1 item

2. Photo 1296(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1296(3)
Title:
Citadel and Mohammed Ali Mosque beyond Bab-el-Wezir cemetery, at feast of Bairam, Cairo, Egypt. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view. Copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood, 1904.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1904
Extent:
1 item

3. Photo 1296(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1296(4)
Title:
Cairo, looking S.W. across city to Pyramids that furnished stone for many of its buildings. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view. 'That high-walled building at the extreme left is the mosque of Rifa'iyeh. Between the dome with the peak awry and the distant sand-hills you notice a horizontal whitish streak—that is the court of the oldest mosque in Cairo, built in 877-879 A.D. by Ibn Tulun, the first inde...
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1897
Extent:
1 item

4. Photo 1296(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
Photo 1296(5)
Title:
A 'Ship of the desert' passing tombs of bygone Moslem rulers outside east wall of Cairo, Egypt. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
Scope & Content:
Stereoscopic view, showing a palanquin carried by two camels passing the Mameluk Tombs. Copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood, 1896.
Collection Area:
Visual Arts
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1896
Extent:
1 item