Cairo. Tombs of the Caliphs – Vintage Wall Art
![Cairo. Tombs of the Caliphs, [between 1860 and 1890] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/9f/9fd3fadf223e-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 historic print of Cairo. Tombs of the Caliphs brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Cairo. Tombs of the Caliphs
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The Tombs of the Caliphs, or the Northern Cemetery of Cairo, is one of the most recognizable early photographic subjects in the city, and this view belongs to a group of albumen prints made in the decades after photography reached Egypt. The domed tombs and mausoleums rise from the desert edge to the northeast of the medieval city, built over several centuries for Mamluk rulers and their families. Photographers working in the 1860s through the 1880s were drawn to the stone domes and carved arches, which tourists and travel publishers treated as emblems of Cairo's Islamic past. The album from which this print comes, arranged by city, reflects the travel-souvenir market of that period.
| Created / published | [between 1860 and 1890] |
|---|---|
| Genre | Albumen prints 1860-1890. |
| Notes | In album: Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo, Rome, no. 144 |
| Subjects | Mosques--Egypt--Cairo--1860-1890. Tombs & sepulchral monuments--Egypt--Cairo--1860-1890. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,279 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-181600 |
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