Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Egypt. Show all posts
Friday, June 16, 2017

Port Said, The Queen Victoria Monument

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There's no way in hell that I'm going to try and make out what's on the back of this card, so I'm breaking protocol a...
Wednesday, June 14, 2017

Tombs of the Kalifs

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Or tombs of the Caliphs if you prefer.   Anyway, this one was actually sent to someone, "Mrs A. B. Hildritt, 400 West 10 Street, ...
Monday, June 12, 2017

The Market Near the Citadel

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Yesterday's post was of The Blue Mosque, seen on the right of this postcard.  On the left, The Citadel of Saladin, or if you prefer ...

The Blue Mosque

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Actually, there is more than one Blue Mosque.  The one in Cairo is also known as The Aqsungur Mosque, named for it's builder, Emir a...
Friday, June 9, 2017

The Lucky Crocodile

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Not very lucky, considering he's dead, stuffed, and mounted on a wall.  This is another one from the studio of Lehnert & Landroc...
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Thursday, June 8, 2017

The Statue of Ramses

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Yet another unused card, credited to "Lehnert & Landrock, Cairo"  I've actually been able to find some info on this pa...
Wednesday, June 7, 2017

The Ambulant Barber

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Yet another unused postcard from Egypt, credited to "B. LIVADAS & COUTSICOS-CAIRO."  I couldn't find anything about th...
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Monday, June 5, 2017

Shadoofs

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It didn't take long to figure out that chadoufs is French for shadoofs, which is a phonetic spelling from the Arabic.  A shadoof is ...
Saturday, June 3, 2017

Egypt via France

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I've been picking up Egyptian postcards for a few years now, and I think it's about time to start posting them.  I'm brea...
Monday, September 21, 2015

Views of the World, Rock Temple at Abu Simbel, Egypt

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The  temples at Abu Simbel were carved along the upper Nile, in the province of Nubia, during the rein of Ramses the Great.  It took aro...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Views of the World, Boats on the Nile, Egypt

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Just for the hell of it, I thought I'd scan one of this series in grey scale. Click on Views of the World in labels to see othe...
Friday, April 4, 2014

In Old Egypt

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This one's a real photo postcard.  The back has a standard Kodak manufactured K Ltd. stamp block, with no other identifying marks tha...
Monday, June 21, 2010

Washerwomen In Stereo

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. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Printed on the back of the card, "50-(W8668) WASHERWOMEN ALONG THE NILE, EGYPT These women are doing the ...