Nile Collection (page 10)

Egypt or A daughter of the Nile. Date c1887

Market on the Nile, Cairo, Egypt
Christmas postcard depicting a scene at the Market on the Nile, Cairo, Egypt, with people, a camel, and sailing boats on the water. Date: early 20th century

Water carriers with water from the Nile, Egypt
Egyptian water carriers with water from the River Nile, ready to sell to anyone who needs it. Date: early 20th century

Shilluk Tribesmen
Three Shilluk Tribesmen standing in front of the framework for a round house. Date: circa 1910s

A Dinka Man - Sudan, Upper Nile Date: circa 1910s

Thomas Cook cruisers - Luxor, Egypt
Nile river cruisers of the Thomas Cook Co. moored alongside the Winter Palace Hotel at Luxor, Egypt. Date: circa 1908

Crocodile Shooting Party - Sudan
How many Sudanese marksmen does it take to shoot a crocodile.... Date: circa 1910s

Filtering drinking water - Cairo, Egypt. An egyptian man has collected water from the River Nile in his animal skin container and now transfers this water to a large terracotta pot

Boats on the Nile at dusk - Cairo, Egypt
Dahabiya boats morred on the banks of the River Nile in Egypt. The view in the beautiful light as the sun begins to set on the still mirror water. Date: circa 1930

Governors Boat on the Blue Nile
The Governors Boat - The Elfin - on the Blue Nile in Sudan Date: 1910s

Palm Trees and the White Nile at Tewfekieh, Sudan Date: circa 1910s

Sudan - The Market at Kosti, White Nile
Sudan - The Market ( Suk ) at Kosti, White Nile Date: circa 1910s

Aswan Low Dam and Reservoir
The Aswan Low Dam and Reservoir (Old Aswan Dam). The dam is a gravity masonry buttress dam on the Nile River in Aswan, Egypt. Date: circa 1924

Sudan - Barbers Shop at Kosti, White Nile Date: circa 1910s

Allied soldiers awaiting orders, Egypt, WW1
Allied soldiers awaiting orders for the defence of the Nile, Egypt, during the First World War. Date: 1914-1918

Camel convoy at Shellal, Egypt, WW1
A camel convoy at Shellal, a village on the Nile, south of Aswan, Egypt, during the First World War. Date: 1918

Greek fire used by Saracens, 1248
Greek fire used by Saracens against Crusaders when crossing a branch of the Nile, 1248

Cairo, Egypt, with camels and driver
Grand Cairo with its Citadel under Mount Mokattam. The city is in the background with two camels and their driver in the foreground. 1803

Nautical Barber
A barber gives his client a haircut on board a boat on the White Nile, Sudan, North Africa. Date: early 1930s

Nile Paddle Steamer
Stern-wheeler paddle steamer for use on the Nile, built in England by the Yarrow company. Date: 1886

Cooks Arrangements for Egypt and the Nile
A Nubian Egyptian man stands in the foreground, with a River Nile steamer in the background, on the cover of Cooks Arrangements for Egypt and the Nile

Egypt, the Nile and Palestine, 1928-1929 Season, showing a Nile Steamer (The Arabia) at Aswan, with Elephantine Island in the background

A village close to the Pyramids on the banks of the River Nile, near Cairo

Cavalry disembaring WWI
The Middlesex Yeomanry disembarking from the Nile transport at Alexandria during World War I

Temple at Philae, Egypt
The Pharoahs Pavilion at the Temple of Philae, Egypt. Many years prior to the forced relocation of this spectacular Ancient Egyptain site due to the rising water created by the building of the Aswan

White / Red Star Lines Winter Cruises
Poster advertising winter cruises in the Mediterranean, West Indies, and around the world

Dhow or felucca on the River Nile, Egypt. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Temples of Philae, being moved to prevent submersion, the Tutunkhamun Exhibition in London part-financed this operation. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Camels on the banks of the River Nile, Egypt
Camels on the banks of the River Nile, ready to take people out the Aga Khans Mausoleum. Photograph by Lionel Coates

River Nile, Egypt - view toward first cataract at Aswan
River Nile, looking towards first cataract at Aswan. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Kom-ombo, Egypt
Kom-ombo, looking back from the entrance, across the River Nile. Photograph by Lionel Coates

Aswan, Egypt
A panoramic view of Aswan, Egypt. The city stands on the east bank of the Nile at the first cataract and is a busy market and tourist center. Its ancient name, Swenet, translates as trade

Tourist hassled by locals - Egypt
A cartoon postcard depicting the troubles encountered by tourists in Egypt, entitled The Battle of the Nile !

Souvenir postcard from Cairo
A souvenir postcard depicting scenes of life in Cairo at the turn of the century. Featuring the Sultan Hassan Mosque, the Palace of the Kedive and an arcaded terrace

Egypt - Women on a boat trip
Six women in the rear section of a small ferry boat about to cast off with a sailor in a fine striped uniform and young boy

The Nag Hammadi Barrage (Dam) - Egypt
Outlets of the Flushing Culverts in the dock - 22nd July 1928. Photograph from an album commemorating the opening of the Nag Hammadi Barrage (dam) in 1930

The River Nile at Boulaque

Traditional Egyptian water wheel
A traditional ox-powered Egyptain water wheel, used to draw up water from the Nile for irrigation

Feluccas and Dhows, Egypt
Feluccas and Dhows of the River Nile, Egypt

Seasonal Greetings card (Christmas) from Egypt
Christmas Wishes from Egypt to a Dear Mother with a scene of the banks of the River Nile with boats (feluccas and dhows) moored up on the riverbank

Egypt - Cairo - Kasr-el-Nil Bridge
Egypt - Cairo - the Pont de Ghazirah (a bridge over the Nile) and a street scene in the city

Sudan - Upper Reaches of the Nile

Egypt - Cairo - Kasr-el-Nil Bridge and Girl
Egypt - Cairo - The entrance to the Pont de Ghazirah - a bridge over the Nile at Cairo built by a French Ironworks. When Egypt became British, the two statues of the (very English) lions were added

Sudan - Shulluck Hippo Hunters at Hillet-Abbas

Shullucks of the Upper Nile (Khartoum)
Shulluck Tribesmen of the Upper Nile near Khartoum, Sudan

Lear / Nonsense / The Nile
There was an Old Man of the Nile, who sharpened his nails with a file, Till he cut out his thumbs, and said calmly, This comes of sharpening ones nails with a file! Date: First published: 1846

Egyptian scenes
A very early Egyptian postcard with scenes from the country including dhows and feluccas on the River Nile (set within a crescent motif) and a water carrier loading up a donkey

The Egyptian Temple Island of Philae, Egypt flooded
The Egyptian Temple Philae, Egypt under flood water. The Temple, under threat from the Nile throughout history, was eventually moved brick by brick to a new location in 1970 to prevent complete

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