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| Improving content |
| 1 | Improving content on contemporary photographers |
| Introduction to photography in Egypt |
| 2 | Introduction to photography in Egypt |
| Daguerreotypes |
| 3 | Daguerreotypes: Egypt |
| Cartes de visite |
| 4 | Cartes de visite: Egypt |
| Photographers |
| 5 | Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey: Egypt |
| 6 | Jules Itier: Egypt |
| 7 | Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia |
| 8 | Félix Teynard: Egypt and Nubia: Negatives |
| 9 | Louis de Clercq: Egypt |
| 10 | Maxime du Camp: Egypt |
| 11 | John Shaw Smith: Archaeological sites of Egypt (1851-1852) |
| 12 | John Beasly Greene: Le Nil (1854) |
| 13 | Robert Murray: Egypt |
| 14 | François Joseph Edouard de Campigneules: Egypt (1858) |
| 15 | Antonio Beato: Egypt |
| 16 | Henry Cammas: Egypt (taken 1859-1860) |
| 17 | Francis Frith: Books on Egypt, Sinai and Palestine |
| 18 | Francis Frith: Egypt |
| 19 | Francis Frith: Stereoviews: Egypt, Nubia and the Middle East |
| 20 | Francis Frith: Egypt, Nubia and Ethiopia, Illustrated with One Hundred Stereoscopic Photographs (1862) |
| 21 | Francis Bedford: The Prince of Wales and his trip to the East - Egypt (1862) |
| 22 | C.G. Fountaine: Photographic views taken in Egypt and Greece by C. G. Fontaine (1862) |
| 23 | Gustave Le Gray: Egypt |
| 24 | W. Hammerschmidt: Egypt: Archaeological sites |
| 25 | G. Lékégian: Egypt: Archaeological sites |
| 26 | Hippolyte Arnoux: Egypt: Archaeological sites |
| 27 | Zangaki Brothers: Egypt: Archaeological sites |
| 28 | P. Dittrich: Egypt: Archaeological sites |
| 29 | William de Wiveleslie Abney: Thebes and its Five Greater Temples (1876) |
| 30 | H. Béchard: The Pyramids |
| 31 | Pascal Sebah: Egypt: The Pyramids and the Sphinx |
| 32 | Abdullah frères: Egypt |
| 33 | Strohmeyer & Wyman: Egypt |
| 34 | Charles Piazzi Smyth: Lantern slides and other photographs of Egypt |
| 35 | Photographing in Egypt W.M. Flinders Petrie (1881-1891) |
| 36 | The Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan (1905-1907) |
| 37 | Photographing in the interior of the Great Temple at Abu Simbel (1906) |
| 38 | Photographing the Temple of Amun and Amunhotep III at Soleb (1907) |
| 39 | Charles Jacquin (French): Autochromes of Egyptian archaeological sites (ca 1912) |
| Cities - Cairo |
| 40 | Egypt: Cairo |
| 41 | Pascal Sebah: Cairo |
| 42 | Francis Frith: Cairo |
| 43 | W. Hammerschmidt: Cairo |
| 44 | Zangaki Brothers: Cairo |
| 45 | Félix Bonfils: Egypt: Cairo |
| 46 | H. Béchard: Cairo: Streets |
| Cities - Alexandria |
| 47 | Egypt: Alexandria |
| Hotels |
| 48 | Egypt: Shepheard's Hotel / Hotel Shepherd |
| Travel guides and photography |
| 49 | Karl Baedeker's Handbooks for Travellers - Cairo |
| 50 | Underwood & Underwood: James Henry Breasted - Egypt Through the Stereoscope |
| Diaries |
| 51 | Clara Whitcomb`s diary: Egypt and the Levant (1898-1899) |
| The Nile |
| 52 | Egypt: The Nile |
| 53 | Egypt: First and Second Cataracts of the Nile |
| Archaeological sites in Egypt |
| 54 | Egypt: Alexandria: Column of Pompey |
| 55 | Egypt: Cairo: Cemeteries and tombs of the Mamalukes |
| 56 | Egypt: The Pyramids of Giza |
| 57 | Egypt: Climbing the Pyramids |
| 58 | Egypt: The Sphinx |
| 59 | Egypt: Pyramid of Djoser (Zoser), Sakkarah (Saqqara) |
| 60 | Egypt: The Pyramids of Dahshoor (now Dahshur or Dashur) |
| 61 | Egypt: Beni Hasan |
| 62 | Egypt: Abydos |
| 63 | Egypt: Dendara |
| 64 | Egypt: Colossi of Memnon |
| 65 | Egypt: Thebes |
| 66 | Egypt: Thebes: Medinet Habu - Medinet Haboo (Mortuary Temple of Ramesses III) |
| 67 | Egypt: Valley of the Kings |
| 68 | Egypt: Luxor |
| 69 | Egypt: Karnak |
| 70 | Egypt: Esna |
| 71 | Egypt: Edfou (Edfu) |
| 72 | Egypt: Kom Ombo |
| 73 | Egypt: Philae |
| 74 | Egypt: Temple of Dendur (Dendoor) |
| 75 | Egypt: Abu Simbel |
| 76 | Egypt: Wadi Saboea [Wadi es-Sebua] |
| Archaeological finds in Egypt |
| 77 | Egypt: Wall art, bas-relief, hieroglyphics and graffiti |
| 78 | Emil Brugsch: La Trouvaille de Deir-El-Bahari |
| 79 | Délié & Béchard: Album du Musée Boulaq |
| 80 | Egypt: Cleopatra's Needle |
| Portraits |
| 81 | Egyptians |
| 82 | Studio portraits in Egypt |
| 83 | Mummies and Sphinxes as foreground props |
| 84 | Schier & Schoefft: Folk types in Egypt (ca. 1866-1868) |
| 85 | Naya & Schoefft: Pictoresque Cairo / Le Caire pittoresque - Portraits (ca. 1875) |
| 86 | G. Lekegian: Portraits |
| 87 | Hippolyte Arnoux: Egypt: Portraits |
| 88 | Hippolyte Délié: Occupational portraits |
| 89 | W. Hammerschmidt: Portraits |
| 90 | Emile Bechard: Portraits |
| Anglo-Egyptian War (1882) |
| 91 | Anglo-Egyptian War (1882): Bombardment of Alexandria (1882) |
| 92 | Anglo-Egyptian War (1882): Battle of Tel el-Kebir (1882) |
| Suez Canal (1869 onwards) |
| 93 | Suez Canal (1859-1869) |
| Snapshots |
| 94 | Early snapshots taken in Egypt |
| Christian architecture |
| 95 | Egypt: Saint Catherine's Monastery |
| Photographers |
| 96 | Van Leo: An Armenian Photographer in Cairo |
| 97 | Bieke Depoorter: As it may be (2017) |
| Arab and Iranian contemporary photography |
| 98 | Introduction to Arab and Iranian contemporary photography |
| 99 | Issues in the representation of the Arab World |
