Title

'Cairo, looking south west, across the city to the pyramids, Egypt', 1905.Artist: Underwood & Underwood

Caption

'Cairo, looking south west, across the city to the pyramids, Egypt', 1905. 'The high-walled building on the extreme left is the mosque of Rifa'iyeh. Between the dome jwith the peak awry and the distant sandhills ... is the court of the oldest mosque in Cairo. It was built in AD 877-879 by Ibn Tulûn, the first independent Sultan of Egypt.' Stereoscopic card. Detail. From a series called Egypt Through the Stereoscope, text by James H Breasted.
The Print Collector collection

Date

1905

Credit line

Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

Reference

HRM19C39_496

Model release

No

License type

Rights managed

Available size

50,4Mb (2,8Mb) / 13,5in x 14,5in / 4051 x 4346 (300dpi)

Keywords

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