Egypt Collection (page 20)

Coins and medals of the Egyptian Ptolemaic dynasty
Coins and medals from ancient Egypt, including portraits of Ptolemy Euergetes 1, 13, Berenice 2, Arsinoe 3, Ptolemy II Philadelphus 4, Arsinoe 5, Ptolemy V Epiphanes 6, Ptolemy VIII Physcon 7

Young Nubian woman and Ababde man. Ethiopian mixed-race people. Handcoloured steel engraving by Lizars after an illustration by Charles Hamilton Smith from his Natural History of the Human Species

Great pyramid of Giza
The great pyramid of Giza 1, interior chambers 2. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1792

Jean Lambert Tallien, deputy to the National Convention, 1769-1820. He accompanied Bonaparte to Egypt as a member of the scientific commission

View of the city of Cairo, Egypt, with its
View of the city of Cairo on the River Nile, Egypt, with its mosques, churches and synagogues, 1820. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Theodore Goetz after Cooke from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs

Interior of the Abu Simbel rock temples, Nubia, Egypt
Interior of the Abu Simbel rock temples to Pharaoh Ramesses II and his queen Nefertiti, Nubia, southern Egypt. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Theodore Goetz from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs

Abu Simbel rock temples in Nubia, southern Egypt
Abu Simbel rock temples to Pharaoh Ramesses II and his queen Nefertiti, Nubia, southern Egypt. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Friedrich Johann Bertuchs Bilderbuch fur Kinder

Music cover, Egypt, My Cleopatra, by Clare Kummer
Music cover, Egypt, My Cleopatra, words and music by Clare Kummer. Date: 1900s

Advertisement, Shepheards and Semiramis Hotels, Egypt
Advertisement, Shepheards Hotel and Semiramis Hotel, Cairo, Egypt -- The Egyptian Hotels Ltd. Date: 1936

Advertisement, National Bank of Egypt, with offices in Egypt and the Sudan. Date: 1936

Aerial view, Cataract Hotel, Aswan (Assuan), Egypt, on the River Nile. Date: 1936

Comic postcard, Golf in other lands, Egypt. Date: circa 1910

Souvenir postcard of Port Tewfik, Suez Canal, Egypt. Date: circa 1900s

Souvenir postcard of the Suez Canal, Egypt. Date: circa 1900s

Frieze, Egyptian scene with pyramids and camels

Cleopatras Needle or Settling the Point, by H Hunter
Promotional music sheet for Cleopatras Needle or Settling the Point, music hall song by Harry Hunter and W Redmond. The Egyptian obelisk

Anna Pavlova at Shepheards Hotel, Cairo
Legendary ballet dancer, Anna Pavlova, pictured at one of the tables on the famous verandah of Shepheards Hotel in Cairo, Egypt

Advertisement, Thomas Cooks Nile Service. 1912

Cemetery at Cairo, Egypt. circa 1860

Front cover photo, Of Old Egypt and Modern Beauty
Front cover photo, Profile Parity -- Of Old Egypt and Modern Beauty -- Lady Kay Muir, Queen Nefertiti, and Madame Guepin. Date: 1930

Visit Egypt advertisement by Gladys Peto
Exquisite advertisement for the Egypt Travel Bureau by Gladys Peto in The Graphic featuring tourists in Petos trademark colourful frocks among ancient ruins. Date: 1930

Cairo Characters, ministers to the travellers comfort
Sketches of the types a traveller to Cairo might meet during his stay. Top left, a page boy, top right, a porter, centre, the dragomans (guides)

The Graphic, Egyptian Number 1930
Front cover of The Graphic magazine specially designed in an Egyptian style for its number on the same subject. Date: 1930

The Season in Cairo - at the Ghezereh Palace
The grounds of the Gezereh Palace Hotel, one of the most fashionable rendezvous in Cairo during the winter season when smart society flocked there

Hotels in Egypt
Health and Sunshine Beckon You to Egypt Advertisement for Egypts top hotels catering to wealthy European and American tourists who went to Cairo for the season during the winter months

Road to the Pyramids during the Season in Egypt
The road from Cairo to the pyramids at Giza clogged with traffic on a Sunday afternoon during the season in Egypt when wealthy Westerner travelled there to enjoy the warm weather, good society

The Tutankhamen Touch - fashion inspired by Ancient Egypt
Page from The Sketch reporting on patterned outfits inspired by Tutankhamen, whose tomb was discovered the previous year. Date: 1923

Visit Egypt advertisement
Advertisement promoting travel to Egypt with an illustration of the famous pyramids at Giza. 29 days of luxurious travel for 72.10.0 only? Sign me up. Date: 1929

The Golden Mask of Tutankhamun - one of the most wonderful pieces of artwork and design of the (very) ancient world. Date: circa 1920s

Social celebrities at a dinner in Cairo, 1932
Groups chatting and pulling faces while at dinner at the newly-opened Embassy Club in Cairo. Significant at the far end of the table is Miss Margaret Whigham (later Mrs Charles Sweeny)

Cairo - garden party held by Lord Kitchener
Overhead view of a garden party in Cairo for Anglo-Egyptian society given by Lord Kitchener, who was Consul-General in Egypt at the time. Date: 1913

Miniature bakery and brewery found during excavation, Egypt
Miniature bakery and brewery, with workers, discovered in a pyramid during excavations, Egypt. Their purpose was to minister to the needs of the buried dignitary. Date: 1922

Miniature granary found during excavation, Egypt
Miniature granary, with workers, discovered in a pyramid during excavations, Egypt. Their purpose was to minister to the needs of the buried dignitary. Date: 1922

Wooden statues of servants found during excavation, Egypt
Wooden statues of servants, discovered in a pyramid during excavations, Egypt. Their purpose was to minister to the needs of the buried dignitary. Date: 1922

Wooden statues of handmaidens, Thebes, Egypt
Wooden statues of handmaidens with baskets on their heads, discovered near Thebes during excavations, Egypt. Their purpose was to minister to the needs of the dead inside a pyramid. Date: 1922

Woman in face veil with child on her shoulder, Cairo, Egypt
Woman in face veil (burko) with gilt tube, carrying a child on her shoulder, Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1922

Arab cobbler at work in his shop, Cairo, Egypt, making the traditional pointed red leather slippers. Date: 1922

Men playing game of draughts in a courtyard, Egypt
Two men playing a game of draughts in a courtyard while a friend sits alongside, Egypt. They are smoking a double nargileh (nargile, hookah) which sits on the ground between them. Date: 1922

Rich man, dancing woman and beggar, Cairo, Egypt
Rich man, dancing woman and beggar passing the time in the native quarter of Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1922

Herb seller in street, chatting to a customer, Egypt
Herb seller in the street, chatting to a customer outside her home, Egypt. Date: 1922

View of colonnades in El-Merdani Mosque, Cairo, Egypt
View of colonnades in the courtyard of the El-Merdani Mosque (Amir al-Maridani Mosque), Cairo, Egypt, dating back to the 14th century. Date: 1922

Men at work in Tentmakers Bazaar, Cairo, Egypt
Men at work on a decorative awning in the Tentmakers Bazaar, Cairo, Egypt, with another piece on display on the wall behind them. Date: 1922

Old shops in booksellers row, Cairo, Egypt
Old shops with fretted woodwork in booksellers row, Cairo, Egypt. Date: 1922

Boys and girls outside their homes, Port Said, Egypt
Boys and girls standing outside their rickety, timber-built homes, Port Said, Egypt. Date: 1922

General view of Cairo, Egypt, from the Mokattam (Mukattam) Hills, with the Mosque of Muhammad Ali Pasha or Alabaster Mosque in the near distance. Date: 1922

Arab woman with goatskin butter churn, near Cairo, Egypt
Arab woman with a goatskin butter churn suspended from the broken stem of a date palm, at a village near Cairo, Egypt. A woman stands alongside with a child sitting on her shoulder. Date: 1922

Bisharin tribesman of the Nubian Desert, near Aswan, Egypt
Bisharin tribesman of the Nubian Desert, living at an encampment near Assuan (Aswan), Egypt. He is holding a large sword. Date: 1922

Arab pottery shop and shopkeeper, Cairo, Egypt, with a water carrier standing on the left. Date: 1922

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