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Griffith Institute

Egypt

The Griffith Institute in Oxford has one of the largest collections of 19th-century “studio photographs” of Egypt. They were taken by professional photographers who had their studios in the major tourist centres of Egypt such as Cairo, Alexandria, Port Said, Luxor and Aswan between about 1860 and 1890. The photographs show ancient Egyptian, Christian and Islamic monuments, as well as scenes of contemporary 19th-century life.

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