Title from item. Date devised by library staff. The photograph is titled, signed "Zangaki" and numbered (107) in the negative. Main Heritage Compact... Show moreTitle from item. Date devised by library staff. The photograph is titled, signed "Zangaki" and numbered (107) in the negative. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0090 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i2647685x BIB-ID: 2830244 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The print is titled, numbered (20) and signed "P. Sebah, Phot:" in the negative. Main Heritage... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The print is titled, numbered (20) and signed "P. Sebah, Phot:" in the negative. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.25171-0004 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i2648092x BIB-ID: 2830454 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Manuscript caption on the mount. The print is signed "A. Beato" in the negative. Main Heritage... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. Manuscript caption on the mount. The print is signed "A. Beato" in the negative. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0053-0022 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26480852 BIB-ID: 2830447 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (855) and signed "Zangaki" Main Heritage Display General HC.HP... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (855) and signed "Zangaki" Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0053-0092 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26480918 BIB-ID: 2830453 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (225) and signed "Zangaki" Main Heritage Display General HC.HP... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (225) and signed "Zangaki" Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0053-0093 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26480888 BIB-ID: 2830451 Show less
Venice Simplon-Orient-Express Ltd., Tourism, Tourism--Middle East--20th Century, Orient Express (Express train), Railroad companies, Railroad companies--Middle East
Travel poster advertising the passenger train route connecting London and Cairo by the Simplon Orient Express. The illustration by Jacques Touchet... Show moreTravel poster advertising the passenger train route connecting London and Cairo by the Simplon Orient Express. The illustration by Jacques Touchet shows a lady carrying a pot on her head underneath palm trees by the Nile, with the pyramids across the reflective water in the distance. Train route marked below the image with the railway line stops: "London, Brussels, Paris, Lausanne, Wien, Praha, Bordeaux, Milano, Berlin, Budapest, Beograd, Sofia, Athenes, Istanbul, Bucuresti, Ankara, Alep, Nissibin, Bagdad, Bassorah and Cairo". Title and date from item. The poster is signed "J. Touchet" and inscribed "LUCIEN SERRE & Cie. IMP. 15-17-19, Rue du Terrage, PARIS". Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.P.2019.0106 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26214787 BIB-ID: 2800306 Show less
Public relationsEgyptian State Railways, Telegraphs & Telephones, Jāmiʻ al-Muʼayyad Shaykh (Cairo, Egypt), Tourism, Tourism--Egypt--20th Century, Railroad companies, Railroad companies--Egypt
Travel poster issued by the Egyptian State Railways.The poster shows a graphic depiction of the Mosque of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad under the crescent. Tit... Show moreTravel poster issued by the Egyptian State Railways.The poster shows a graphic depiction of the Mosque of Sultan al-Mu'ayyad under the crescent. Title and date from item. Main Heritage Compact General HC.GM.P.2019.0044 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26194764 BIB-ID: 2798727 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph shows the Bab Al-Khalq building that hosted the Egyptian National Library and... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph shows the Bab Al-Khalq building that hosted the Egyptian National Library and Archives from 1904 until 1971, together with the Dar Al-Athar Al-Arabiya; at the time of Sultan Hussein Kamel (d. 1917), this library was known as Sultanieh Library. Before that date, the National Library of Egypt—founded by the Khedive Isma’il Pasha in 1870 and originally designated as Kotub Khana or Khedieval Library— was housed in Darb al-Gamamiz. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0089-0008 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23703271 BIB-ID: 2524740 Show less
Artisans, Artisans--Egypt--Portrait photographs, Lattice windows, Lattice windows--Cairo (Egypt)--Photographs, Meshrebeeyehs, Meshrebeeyehs--Cairo (Egypt), Manners and customs, Manners and customs--Egypt--Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918--Portraits
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (627) and signed "Zangaki" in the negative. Main Heritage... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (627) and signed "Zangaki" in the negative. Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0053-0084 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26482137 BIB-ID: 2830554 Show less
The postcard shows the Eden Palace Hotel, which opened around 1900 in a location overlooking the Ezbekiyya Gardens (from this the old name of the... Show moreThe postcard shows the Eden Palace Hotel, which opened around 1900 in a location overlooking the Ezbekiyya Gardens (from this the old name of the street, and title of the postcard. "Genaineh" is جنينة, Egyptian Arabian for garden). Title from item, date devised by Library staff. On the verso the logo of German publisher and "Cai[ro] 81". Manuscript annotation on the recto "I stayed in this hotel [Eden Palace Hotel] in 1915" and on the verso of the print. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0089-0061 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i2682582x BIB-ID: 2854700 Show less
