The scanner has produced a bit of glare on some of the views due to the exaggerated curve. The Realistic Travels views are uncommon. They were produced by Doctor H.D. Girdwood and they date from just before or just after WWI. Difference in size is caused by scanner settings.
Fine Art Photographers' Publishing
Co. 'Bedrashen, Egypt'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #231.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Distant
view of Cairo and the citadel of Saladin from limestone quarries in Mokattan
hills, Egypt'.
Condition 9.
Order #232.
Price $12.
Underwood 'Cairo, home of romance,
N.W. from Saladin's citadel to Nile'. Descriptive text.
Condition 8 (mount bumped
at bottom corners).
Order #233.
Price $10.
Underwood 'Cairo, the city
of the Khalifs'.
Condition 8/9.
Order #234.
Price $12.
Underwood 'Cairo, looking S.W.
across city to pyramids that furnished stone for many of its buildings'.
Condition 9.
Order #235.
Price $12.
Underwood 'Citadel and Mohammed
Ali Mosque beyond Bab-el-Wezir cemetery, Cairo'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #236.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'The Mosque
of Sultan Hassan from the Citadel, west over Cairo, the home of the Arabian
Nights', Egypt'.
Condition. Images 10 but some
loss to mount, front and back.
Order #237.
Price $10.
Frank Mason Good. Eastern Series.
'No 102. Egypt - Cairo. From the Citadel with Mosque of Sultan Hassan'.
Condition. Light foxing in
sky.
Order #238.
Price $35.
Realistic Travels. 'Beautiful
Saracen Mosque of Kait Bey, noblest tomb in Necropolis of Marmeluke Sultans,
Cairo.'
Condition 10.
Order #239.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'European
Cairo from top of city's skyscraper, Eastern Telegraph Offices, to the
Royal Palace'.
Condition 9.
Order #240.
Price $12.
'Tombs of the Marmelukes, Citadel
of Cairo in the distance, and Mosque of Mohammed Ali'.
Condition. Slight marks.
Order #241.
Price $25.
Handwritten ' Tomb of the Caliph
Emir El Keb???, Cairo'. 1850s view.
Condition 8.
Order #242.
Price $22.
Handwritten 'Tomb of the Caliph,
Cairo'.
Condition 7/8.
Order #243.
Price $18.
'Tombeau du Scheikh Abou-Sipha'.
Condition 9.
Order #244.
Price $25.
Negretti & Zambra; '461.
Views in Egypt. Second Series - Cairo. The Mosque of Sultan el Hakem'.
Condition 9.
Order #245.
Price $25.
Negretti & Zambra. Francis
Frith No 472 (signed in neg.). Views in Egypt. Second Series - Cairo. Street
scene on the way to the Citadel'.
Condition. Light marks on
images and mount creased thru center, not affecting images.
Order #246.
Price $12.
Underwood/Strohmeyer. 'A crowded
street in Cairo'.
Condition. Fairly light images
and marks.
Order #247.
Price $3.
Realistic Travels. 'Electric
trams to Helipolis on Imad el Din St. in the newest quarter of the city
of Cairo'.
Condition 9.
Order #248.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Rival shop-keepers,
oriental life and graceful Minarets in the native bazaar, Cairo'.
Condition 9.
Order #249.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Egyptian
women with yashmaks, a veil worn in public in picturesque streets of Cairo'.
Condition 9.
Order #250.
Price $15.
Realistic Travels. 'Ablution
fountain where the faithful wash, before praying in Mohammed Ali Mosque,
Cairo'.
Condition 9.
Order #251.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Alabaster
Mosque of Mohammed Ali with lofty minarets, from terrace of his palace,
Cairo'.
Condition 9/10.
Order #252.
Price $12.
Excelsior. 'Interior, Mosque
Mohammed Ali, Cairo'.
Condition. Not bad for Excelsior.
Order #253.
Price $8.
Excelsior. 'Interior, Mosque
Mohammed Ali, Cairo'.
Condition. Not bad for Excelsior.
Order #254.
Price $8.
Realistic Travels. 'Sultan
Hasan, the Superb, finest Saracen mosque, built of casing taken from the
Pyramids, Cairo'.
Condition. Very slight ripple
on right image.
Order #255.
Price $12.
Underwood/Strohmeyer 'The Harem
Window, Palace of the Cheik-el-Sadaat, Cairo'.
Condition. Line across top
righ of right image is a bad dent fault.
Order #256.
Price $3.
Underwood/Jarvis. 'Interior
of Mosque Kalaun, Cairo'.
Condition 10.
Order #257.
Price $12.
H.C. White 'Beautiful Indian
Palm Grove, Cairo'.
Condition 8.
Order #258.
Price $8.
Underwood/Strohmeyer. 'Arab
merchants of Cairo'.
Condition 9/10.
Order #259.
Price $15.
Frank Mason Good. Eastern Series.
'No 119. Egypt - Cairo. The White Ass of Syria'.
Condition 8.
Order #260.
Price $45.
Handwritten 'Gallery in Palace
of Chor???, Cairo'.
Condition 8.
Order #2871.
Price $15.
White label. 'Kisoque situé
dans le jardin du harem du Prince Ismail-Pacha, à son palais de
Guéziret, près du Caire (Egypte)'.
Condition 8.
Order #2872.
Price $18.
Realistic Travels. 'Humble
tombs of Egypt of yesterday and Pyramid of Khufu, a sepulchre from the
remote past, Cairo'.
Condition 9.
Order #2873.
Price $12.
Kilburn/Davis. 'Guezirch Grotto,
Cairo'.
Condition. This is delaminating,
the images are fine but this is a reference view until a better one comes
along.
Order #2874.
Price $2.
Realistic Travels. 'Buying
and selling camels, a busy morning in the Arabian stock market at Gizeh,
near Cairo'.
Condition 9.
Order #2875.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Fruit vendor
in the Gizeh bazaar, where date, fig and cocoanut markets are held weekly,
Cairo'.
Condition 9.
Order #2876.
Price $15.
Realistic Travels. 'The swing
bridge over the river Nile, open to permit passage of fleet of native boats,
Cairo'.
Condition 8.
Order #2877.
Price $10.
Realistic Travels. 'Vast crowds
rejoicing and celebrating after the great Mohammedan fast of Ramadan, Cairo'.
Condition 9.
Order #2878.
Price $12.
Handwritten. 'Tombs of the
Marmeluke Kings, Cairo, No 5'. '913' in the neg.
Condition. Clear but marks
and slightly dog-eared mount.
Order #2879.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Marble
sepulchres of the Khedives amid tombs of Marmelukes in desert east of Cairo'.
Condition 9.
Order #2880.
Price $12.
Underwood 'The Road to the
Pyramids, Egypt'.
Condition 9.
Order #2881.
Price $8.
Underwood/Jarvis. 'The Road
to the Pyramids'.
Condition 9.
Order #2882.
Price $10.
Underwood 'Watching a sand
whirlwind from top of Hawara pyramid (view S.E.)'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #2883.
Price $10.
Realistic Travels. 'Threshing
wheat with primitive driving sledges beneath the shadow of the mighty pyramids'.
Condition 9.
Order #2884.
Price $12.
Underwood. 'Ruins of the Granite
Temple, the Sphynx and Great Pyramid'.
Condition 8/9.
Order #2885.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'The Second
Pyramid with a crown of the original casing from the top of the Great Pyramid,
Egypt'.
Condition 7 with slight production
fault on left image.
Order #2886.
Price $8.
Realistic Travels. 'Looking
up Tourists' Corner, Gt Pyramid, with 2.5 million blocks of 2.5 tons each,
Egypt'.
Condition. Some surface ripples
from production.
Order #2887.
Price $8.
Handwritten 'Pyramid of Sakkera'.
Condition 8.
Order #2888.
Price $18.
Realistic Travels. 'Pyramid
of Zoser, the successor of the mastaba and first attempt at a pyramid,
Sakkara'.
Condition 9.
Order #2889.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Entrance
to King Khufu's tomb, with ascending hall within leading to the Sepulchre
Chambers, Egypt'.
Condition 9.
Order #2890.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Caravan
passing the Hawara Pyramid on edge of desert, near cotton field flooded
with water, Egypt'.
Condition 8.
Order #2891.
Price $8.
Realistic Travels. 'Over irrigated
cotton fields and date groves to the Danshur pyramids, on edge of desert,
Egypt'.
Condition 9.
Order #2892.
Price $10.
Underwood. 'Remarkable inscription
of a seven years famine on the Island of Sehel (1st Cataract), Egypt'.
Condition 8.
Order #2893.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Spirited
war reliefs of Sethy I, depicting victories over the Hittites, Temple of
Karnak, Egypt'.
Condition 8.
Order #2895.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'A banana
plantation in the Fayum - a tree with blossoms, fruit and seed on same
stalk, Egypt'.
Condition. Very slight blemish
on left image.
Order #2896.
Price $6.
Underwood 'An Egyptian sakieh
or ox-driven bucket-pump raising water for irrigation'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #2897.
Price $12.
Underwood 'Thou shall not muzzle
the ox when he treadeth out the corn (threshing), Egypt'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #2898.
Price $10.
Underwood 'Cliff tombs of the
lords of Assiut - the king makers of 4,000 years ago - Egypt'. Descriptive
text.
Condition 9.
Order #2899.
Price $12.
Underwood 'Assiut, the largest
city of Upper Egypt, seen from the cliffs at the west'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #2900.
Price $10.
Underwood 'The temple of Sethos
I - view S.W. to its dismantled front - Abydos, Egypt'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #10151.
Price $12.
Underwood 'Across Theban plain
with Memnon statues, from W. cliff to Luxor'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #10152.
Price $12.
Underwood 'The entire length
of gigantic temple of Amon, Karnak (N.W.), Thebes'. Descriptive text.
Condition 9.
Order #10153.
Price $12.
Underwood/Jarvis. 'Looking
into the famous Hall of Pillars, Temple of Karnak, Upper Egypt'.
Condition 9.
Order #10154.
Price $12.
'Entrance to Hall of Columns,
Karnac'.
Condition 9.
Order #10155.
Price $25.
Francis Frith. 'No 368. Views
in Egypt and Nubia. The two Obelisks and part of the Hall of Columns at
Karnac'. Hand-tinted and signed by Frith in the neg. where it is numbered
371D.
Condition 8.
Order #10156.
Price $35.
Frith #326. 'Views of Egypt.
No 30. Ruins of Kardassy Temple No 2, Nubia. A small temple of great beauty
of the Ptolmean period'. Published by the New York Stereoscopic Company,
possibly pirated as not of the quality of the originals.
Condition 7/8.
Order #10157.
Price $8.
Frith #31. Handwritten. 'Columns
of the Temple of Carmel, Thebes'.
Condition. Three worm holes
in images. A few others in mount that didn't get thru to the images.
Order #10158.
Price $8.
Keystone. 'Date Palms, Alexandria,
Egypt'. Descriptive text.
Condition 10.
Order #10159.
Price $8.
Underwood/Strohmeyer. 'The
palm-fringed Nile, Egypt'.
Condition. Clear but quite
light (not faded).
Order #10160.
Price $6.
Underwood. 'The brick store
chambers of Pithom, the city built by Hebrew bondsmen (looking north),
Egypt'.
Condition 8.
Order #10161.
Price $12.
Realistic Travels. 'Delightful
palm groves and native village along River of Joseph, at entrance to Fayum,
Egypt'.
Condition. Slight marks.
Order #10162.
Price $8.
Underwood. 'The body of Sethos
I who lived early in the fourteenth century B.C. Museum of Cairo, Egypt'.
Descriptive text.
Condition. Slight damage to
mount. Images 7/8.
Order #10164.
Price $12.
Fine Art Photographers' Publishing
Co. 'Ostrich and young, Matariyeh, Egypt'. Descriptive text.
Condition 8.
Order #10166.
Price $6.
Francis Frith. Views in Egypt,
Second Series, No 466. 'The mosques of Mardani and Sultan Hassan. City
walls and general view looking S.W.' London Stereoscopic blindstamp.
Condition. Mount split at
center, not affecting images.
Order #10167.
Price $12.
Francis Frith. Views in Egypt
and Nubia, No 362. 'The approach to Karnak, with the Avenue of the Sphynxes,
and the beautiful Ptolemaic Pylon'. Label damaged but is New York Stereoscopic
Company/Langenheim. Ex collection of Viv and Ron Lowden.
Condition. Slight soiling
in sky area and production line on left image.
Order #10168.
Price $10.
Francis Frith. Views in Egypt
and Nubia, No 355. 'Crocodile on a sandbank in the Nile'. Grey label 'Stereoscopic
History' but is probably New York Stereoscopic Company/Langenheim. Ex collection
of Viv and Ron Lowden.
Condition. Not as clear as
the originals.
Order #10169.
Price $6.
Appleton/New York Stereoscopic
Co. Views of Egypt No 36. 'View of the Temple of Kalabscheh'.
Condition. Pirated version
with light foxing.
Order #10170.
Price $5.
Francis Frith. Views in the
Peninsular of Sinai, No 497. 'Sculptured stones at Sirabit-el-Khadem'.
Condition. Foxing. Slight
damage to edge of mount.
Order #10171.
Price $5.
Frank Mason Good. 'No 14. Graia
on the Red Sea, near Ezion Geber. The port of King Solomon'. Added in pencil
'Sir Samuel and Lady Baker in photo'.
Condition. Blue tinting in
sky looks like the work of a child who would have been better off employed
down a mine.
Order #10172.
Price $10.
Frith No 373. 'The Great Hall
of Columns at Karnak'. A rather strange color view on thin mount. Printed on the mount
rather than mounted, I guess this is a late version although the title
is written in Victorian hand. Ex collection of Viv and Ron Lowden.
Condition. Badly mounted.
Order #10176.
Price $6.
Handwritten. 'Portion of the
Columnar Court in the Temple of Karnack, Thebes'. By Frith but pirated.
Condition 7.
Order #10177.
Price $5.
Frith No 373. '57. Egypt. Portion
of the Great Hall of Columns at Karnak'. Descriptive text. Probably a pirated
version.
Condition 7.
Order #10179.
Price $5.
