Architectural Lantern Slides of Egypt
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Lantern slides created in Egypt under its British colonial occupation in the late 19th or early 20th century. Image subjects include archaeological digs and archaeological sites as well as Cairo mosques. These lantern slides were intended for use in architectural pedagogy. Some images include people and fashions of the time.
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Karnak, Precinct of Amun-Re: Obelisks of Thutmose I and Hatshepsut before Fourth Pylon

Karnak, Precinct of Amun-Re: Overall view of pylon showing cantered walls

Karnak, Precinct of Amun-Re: Overall view, ruined colonnade

Karnak, Precinct of Amun-Re: South face of the Eighth Pylon

Karnak, Precinct of Amun-Re: Walls of first courtyard with braces in center

Karnak: Approach to Karnak on processional way lined with sphinxes

Karnak: First Barque Chapel of Ramses III, Osiride pillars

Karnak: Gateway of Ptolemy III Euergetes and Ptolemy IV Philopator at the Precinct of Montu

Karnak: Hypostyle hall with closed lotus bud capitals

Karnak: Overall view

Karnak: Workers removing sand and doing restoration work

Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view

Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view of the rear

Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view of the rear

Kiosk of Trajan: Overall view showing landing and entrance hall

Luxor Temple Complex: Court of Amenhotep

Luxor Temple Complex: Detail of papyrus shaped column

Luxor Temple Complex: Frontal view of the Pylons of Ramses II

Luxor Temple Complex: Overall view, Court of Amenhotep

Luxor Temple Complex: Overall view, looking from inner court towards pylon

Luxor Temple Complex: Side view of one of the seated colossal statues of Ramses II

Mahmud Pasha Mosque: Part of the Citadel fortifications in the foreground, Mahmud Pasha Mosque, to the right

Mausoleum of Südün Amir Majlis: Context view

Medinet Habu: Detail, First Pylon of the Great Temple Mortuary Temple of Ramses III

Medinet Habu: Interior, one of three columned halls in Great Temple

Medinet Habu: Ramessid columns in the peristyle court, Mortuary Temple of Ramses III

Memphis: Calcite alabaster sphinx of the 18th Dynasty

Memphis: Pillared hall of the temple of Ptah

Minaret, possibly in the Sultan al-Nasir Muhammad ibn Qala'un Mosque, Cairo, Egypt

Mortuary Temple of Queen Hatshepsut: Distant context view