Egypt
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Colonialist postcards (Middle East)
File — Box 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: C-132
Scope and Contents
Collection of postcards depicting landscapes, people, and scenes from the Middle East, including Algeria, Egypt, Morocco, Yemen, Israel, and Palestine.
Dates:
circa 1900-1970
Egypt and Syria photographs, c. 1890
File
Scope and Contents
Collection of 16 portrait photographs.
Egypt and Syria, c. 1890.
16 albumen prints on cardboard (480 x 325 mm), mostly captioned in the image in German.
The photographs depict natives in traditional costume: Arabic women, a snake tamer with a cobra, a camel driver from Sinai, merchants at the Bazar, a fellah family, an Arabic servant and Arabic children, an Arabic school, a Jewish girl from Syria, Bedouin sheikhs and a black chief from Upper Egypt, etc. The photographs, many of which bear...
Dates:
c. 1890
Egypt photographs
File — Box 1, Folder: 5
Identifier: c-185_egypt
Scope and Contents
Includes one albumen photographic print on paper, circa 1870-1879 of two women posing.
Dates:
circa 1880-
Oversize photographs
File — Box 2
Identifier: c185_oversize
Scope and Contents
Flat box containing oversize black and white photographs taken in the Middle East. Includes one sheet of studio portraits and one photograph of a man seated with children at a school in Algiers, circa 1890s. One photograph is captioned "Danseuses Arabes" (Arab dancers). Another is captioned "Servante Egptienne" (Egyptian servant/maid), taken by Zangaki.
Dates:
circa 1880-
