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Cairo. Mosque of Kaget Bey, Arab village – Antique Wall Art

Cairo. Mosque of Kaget Bey, Arab village, [between 1860 and 1890] — historic photograph
Cairo. Mosque of Kaget Bey, Arab village, [between 1860 and 1890]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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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Set in an Arab village in Cairo, this view centers on the mosque of Kaget Bey, a modest local landmark rather than one of the city's grand monuments. Albumen prints like this one, made between 1860 and 1890, were often gathered into travel albums, and this example is numbered 151 in a set that also covered Jerusalem, Alexandria and Rome. Photographers of the period were drawn to Cairo's mosques, whose domes and minarets appealed to European and American audiences eager to see the Near East. The print preserves how village architecture looked in those decades, before many such places changed.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1890]
GenreCityscape photographs 1860-1890.Albumen prints 1860-1890.
NotesIn album: Jerusalem, Alexandria, Cairo, Rome, no. 151.
SubjectsMosques--Egypt--Cairo--1860-1890.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan3,279 × 4,096 px · prints to 11 × 14 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-181606

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