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Maker(s):Sébah, Jean Pascal
Culture:Turkish, (1872-1947)
Title:Sharia el Fouvah, Cairo
Date Made:late 19th - early 20th century
Type:Photograph
Materials:Albumen print
Place Made:Africa; Asia; Egypt
Measurements:mount: 14 in x 17 in; 35.56 cm x 43.18 cm; image: 10 5/8 in x 8 1/8 in; 26.9875 cm x 20.6375 cm
Narrative Inscription:  recto lwr. l. [in negative]: 164 Rue El Fouva; recto lwr. r. [in negative]: J.P. Sebah
Accession Number:  MH 1995.6.46
Credit Line:Gift of William and Sylvia Durfee
Museum Collection:  Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
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Description:
Black and white image of a narrow street with a minaret rising in the center of the composition. Many windows on the left side of the street are covered with protruding dormers made of wood carved with intricate lattice-like patterns.

Subjects:
Photography--Printing processes--Albumen

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