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  • The sanitary demonstration area, with two soldiers, on a First World War (?) army camp, Abassia, Cairo, Egypt. Photograph, 1914/1918.
  • Doorway to an Arabian mansion, with men smoking outside, Cairo, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Abassia, Cairo, Egypt: the outside cooking area of a military camp, with soldiers and horse-drawn carts. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Mosque of Ayed Bey, with other tombs of the caliphs, Cairo, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • A Coptic Christian woman dictating a letter to a scribe, Cairo, Egypt. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • The sanitary demonstration area, with an army truck and soldiers, on a First World War (?) army camp, Abassia, Cairo, Egypt: marked out on the ground is a model of the reticulation system of trenches for waste disposal. Photograph, 1914/1918 (?).
  • Egyptian people boarding boats on the Nile during a cholera epidemic. Coloured wood engraving by W.J.Palmer after C. Loye.
  • The slave market in Cairo. Lithograph by J.C. Bourne after O.B. Carter and H. Warren, ca. 1840.
  • A barber is standing outside his shop in Cairo with the instruments of his trade in his hands. Colour lithograph after Amadeo Preziosi.
  • Abu Kassim is burying his slippers in the garden but he has been seen by another man over the fence. Engraving.
  • A street barber shaving the head of a small boy in Cairo. Wood engraving by H. Kaeseberg after W. Gentz.
  • A barber is standing outside his shop in Cairo with the instruments of his trade in his hands.
  • The aqueduct at Cairo with a ground plan. Line engraving.
  • The mosque of El Hakim and environs, Cairo. Coloured lithograph by Louis Haghe after David Roberts, 1849.
  • Qasr al-'Ayni Hospital and Medical School, Cairo: design for new buildings. Gouache after J. T. Cackett & R. Burns Dick, 1922.
  • The bazaar of the coppersmiths in Cairo. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1848, after D. Roberts.
  • Men and women are gathered outside a prison in Cairo as prisoners look out from behind the bars, and a child stands on ledge to look through the window. Wood engraving after J.C. Horsley, 1876.
  • The bazaar of the coppersmiths in Cairo. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1848, after D. Roberts.
  • Cairo: tomb of Sultan Barsbai (Barsbāy). Colour lithograph by G. Seitz, ca. 1878, after Carl Werner, 1871.
  • A street scene in Cairo with a street seller at work. Coloured lithograph by J. C. Bourne, c. 1840, after O. B. Carter.
  • A woman in Cairo holding a child, accompanied by an Abyssinian slave woman standing next to the cradle. Coloured lithograph by A. Mouilleron after Prisse d'Avennes, 1848.
  • Men smoking outside an arabesque mansion in Cairo. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1849, after D. Roberts.
  • The mosque of Sultan Qāʼit Bāy, Cairo. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1858.
  • The mosque of Sultan Qāʼit Bāy, Cairo. Photograph by Francis Frith, 1858.
  • The doorway to the Turkish bath, El-Télet, Cairo (?). Lithograph by L.A. Asselineau after A.C.T.E. Prisse d'Avennes.
  • An Egyptian man sits beside his hooka writing a letter, he is watched by his client, a woman. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1849, after D. Roberts.
  • A young woman posing naked in a photographic studio, lying on a wooden plinth. Photograph, ca.1900.
  • Astronomy: a large party climbing to observe the transit of Venus. Wood engraving.
  • The bazaar of the silk mercers in Cairo with a man smoking a long-stemmed pipe. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1848, after D. Roberts.
  • The bazaar of the silk mercers in Cairo with a man smoking a long-stemmed pipe. Coloured lithograph by L. Haghe, c. 1848, after D. Roberts.