Cairo. Tombs of the caliphs – Historic Print
![Cairo. Tombs of the caliphs, [between 1860 and 1890] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/05/05115d503e3c-L.webp)
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare historic print captures Cairo. Tombs of the caliphs in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Cairo. Tombs of the caliphs
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The Tombs of the Caliphs sit in the desert cemetery on the northeastern edge of Cairo, a necropolis of domed mausolea and mosques built over several centuries under Mamluk and earlier Islamic rulers. This albumen print, catalogued as number 152 in an album that also covers Jerusalem, Alexandria and Rome, shows the stone structures as travelers of the 1860s through 1880s would have seen them. Photographs like this one were often sold in bound sets, so they carry the framing of a Western tourist's itinerary as much as a record of the site. The date range is broad, and the record does not name the photographer, so the image is best read as a document of the monuments themselves and of the growing appetite for Egyptian scenes in that period.
| Created / published | [between 1860 and 1890] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Albumen prints 1860-1890. |
| Notes | In album: Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo, Rome, no. 152. |
| Subjects | Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Egypt--Cairo--1860-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,293 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181607 |
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