Cairo, looking S.W. across city to Pyramids that furnished stone for many of its buildings. Photographer: Underwood and Underwood
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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...
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
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Stereoscopic view, overlooking Ramleh Place and the Sultan Hasan Mosque. Copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood, 1904.