Object Details
Creator
Raphael Tuck & Sons
Collection Citation
African Postcard collection, EEPA 1985-014, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution.
Scope and Contents
Printed caption on verso reads "Arab village near the Pyramids. Palm trees shade one side of the pool where Arab women come to fill their graceful water-pots, and palm-trees grow among the red granite buildings where live and love, and work, and marry, and die, a race of Fellahs who have not much changed from the type of their ancestors who brought bread and water and dried fish and fresh fruit to the workmen employed in builting the Pyramids that we see behind the village."
Additional printed text on verso reads: "'Wide-Wide-World' Picturesque Egypt. Series XI. / Raphael Tuck& Sons 'OILETTE' Postcard 7441. / Art publishers to Their Majesties The King and Queen. Printed in England." Publisher's logo on verso.
Items EEPA UA-14-05 and EEPA UA-14-07 are duplicate postcards.
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Local Numbers
EEPA UA-14-05
General
Title source: Postcard caption.
See Also
Egypt, Al Jīzah Governorate, Ahrāmāt al Jīzah (Pyramids of Giza) (29.975364, 31.140039)
Interactive maps
Place
Africa
Egypt
Egypt, -- Al Jīzah Governorate, -- Ahrāmāt al Jīzah (Pyramids of Giza)
Topic
Landscape -- Photographs
Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)
Landscapes -- natural
Provenance
I.U.: Indiana University collection; Donation.
Creator
Raphael Tuck & Sons
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African Postcard Collection
African Postcard Collection / Series 15: Egypt (UA)
Extent
1 Postcard (halftone., col, 9 x 14 cm.)
Date
[ca. 1910]
Container
Volume 1
Archival Repository
Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
Identifier
EEPA.1985-014, Item EEPA UA 2012-001-0123
Type
Archival materials
Postcards
Postcards
Picture postcards
Paintings
Collection Rights
Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
Genre/Form
Picture postcards
Paintings -- Reproductions
Collection Restrictions
Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
EEPA.1985-014_ref8295
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EEPA.1985-014
EEPA
Record ID
ebl-1536871081657-1536871087923-5