Stereoscopic views of Egypt

Descriptive Summary
Title: Stereoscopic views of Egypt
Creator: Underwood & Underwood
Inclusive Dates: 1908
Language(s): English
Extent: 0.75 Linear Feet 3 boxes
Collection Number: ms3724
Repository: Hargrett Library

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Collection Description

Historical Note

The stereoscope allowed two images to be viewed as one image in order to create a three-dimensional illusion. The firm Underwood and Underwood created travel series of stereoscopic views that allowed the viewer to take a visual tour of a foreign place. The stereoscopes were images of people, historic sites, cities, landscapes, industry, and agriculture.

Scope and Content

The collection consists of stereographs of images of Egypt. Also included is a stereograph of three people with leprosy sitting on the ground outside the city of Jerusalem.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Sterescopic views of Egypt, ms3724, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2019.

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Related Materials and Subjects

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

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Pompey's Pillar, the sailor's landmark, and modern Alexandria

 

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Cairo- home of the Arabian nights, greatest city of Africa

 

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Citadel and Mohammed Ali Mosque beyond Bab-el-Wezir cemetery, Cairo

 

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Cairo- looking southwest across city to pyramids

 

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A "Ship of the Desert" passing tombs of by-gone Moslem rulers, Cairo

 

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Tomb Mosque of Sultan Kait Bey, Cairo

 

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The prayer-niche and pulpit in the tomb mosque of Kait Bey, Cairo

 

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The Holy Carpet Parade with the Mahmal, Cairo

 

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The harem-windows in the court of a wealthy Caiene's house

 

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Diorite statue of King Khafre, builder of the Second Pyramid of Gizeh, Cairo

 

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The famouse wooden statue called the Shekh-el-Beled, in the Museum, Cairo

 

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Mummy of Sethos I, who lived in the 14th Century, B.C., Cairo

 

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The jewelry of Queen Ahhotep, 17th Century B.C., Cairo Museum

 

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The stela of Amenophis III, Cairo Museum

 

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The great Nile bridge at Cairo

 

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The road to the pyramids from near Cairo

 

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The Great Pyramid of Gizah

 

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King Khufu's tomb, the Great Pyramid of Giza

 

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Looking up the northeast corner of the Great Pyramid

 

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From the summit of the Great Pyramid looking East

 

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The second pyramid

 

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Looking down the southwest corner of the Great Pyramid

 

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Entrance to the Great Pyramid

 

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Looking down the main passage to Khufu's sepulchre within the great pyramid

 

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Khufu's sarcophagus broken by robbers

 

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Ruins of the granite temple, the Sphinx, and great Pyramid

 

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The Sphinx

 

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Statue of Ramses II

 

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Attempt of pyramid

 

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Quarry chambers of Masara

 

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The obelisk of Heliopolis

 

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The brick store-chambers of Pithom, built by Hebrew bondsmen

 

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Dahabiyehs on the river ready for a Nile Voyage

 

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Watchoing a sand whirlwind

 

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An Egyptian "shaduf" lifting Nile waters to the fields

 

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An Egyptian Sakieh

 

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Threshing in Egypt

 

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The winnowing of the grain

 

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Brick making as seen today

 

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The tomb of a feudal lord at Benihasan built about 1900 B.C.

 

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Cliff-tombs of the lords of Assiut

 

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Assuit, the largest city of Upper Egypt

 

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The temple of Sethos I, Abydos

 

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Columns of Sethos I temple

 

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Sethos I and Ramses II worshipping ancestors

 

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Temple of Hathor at Denderah

 

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Across the plain of Thebes and past the Memnon statues

 

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The deserted Temple of Luxor

 

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The Moslem mosque in the court of Luxor Temple, Thebes

 

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Colonnade, Luxor Temple, Thebes

 

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Ramses II obelisk in front of Luxor Temple

 

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Grand avenue approaching the temple of Karnak, Thebes

 

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Tempole at Karnak, Thebes

 

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Excavating an avenue to the temple of Karnak

 

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Avenue of sacred images after excavation, Karnak, Thebes

 

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The great court of the Karnak Temple, Thebes

 

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Colonnade, Karnak, Thebes

 

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Looking across sacred lake to graet temple, Karnak, Thebes

 

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Middle aisle of the great hall and obelisk of Thutmosis I, Karnak, Thebes

 

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The tallest obelisk in Egypt, in the temple of Karnak, Thebes

 

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Plants and animals brought from Syria by the Pharoahs, Karnak, Thebes

 

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Great war reliefs sculptured in the wall at Karnak Temple, Thebes

 

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Records of the campaign of Shishak who captured Jerusalem, Karnak, Thebes

 

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Colossal "Memnon" statues at Thebes

 

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The Ramesseum-temple of Ramses II at Thebes

 

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From roof of Ramesseum over the Plain of Thebes

 

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Plain of Thebes and the colossi of Memnon, seen from the Ramesseum

 

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Looking south over the Theban plain and Temples of Medinet Habu

 

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Painted tomb-chamber hewn in the rock of the cliffs at Thebes

 

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Colonnaded terraces of templew at Der-el-Bahri, Thebes

 

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Reliefs of Queen Makere's expedition to East Africa, Der-el-Bahri, Thebes

 

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From the high cliffs at Der-el-Bahri across the plain to Luxor, Thebes

 

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Down the Nile from the western cliffs of Thebes

 

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Valley of the kings' tombs at Thebes

 

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Descending gallery in tomb of Sethos I, Thebes

 

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Looking north to temple of of Sethos I, Thebes

 

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The first pylon of the great temple at Medinut Habu, Thebes

 

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The hunting of the wild bull, carved on temple wall at Medinut Habu

 

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Scenes of battle and the chase carved on wall at Medinut Habu, Thebes

 

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Walled City of El Kab, seen from door of a tomb in the cliffs

 

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The pylon and court of the temple of Horus at Edfu

 

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Temple at Edfu

 

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The Holy of Hollies and shrine for the divine image, temple of Edfu, Egypt

 

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Assuan and thew island of Elephantine from the western cliffs

 

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Tomb of Harkhuf, a frontier baron in the days of the pyramid builders

 

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The Nilometer (measurer of inundations) at the first cataract

 

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Ninety-two foot obelisk still lying in the quarry of Assuan

 

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Inscription of a seven year's famine on an island in the Nile

 

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Philae, the "Pearl of Egypt"

 

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Looking down on the island of Philae and its temples

 

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The great Assuan dam seen from the Philae temple

 

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The Nubian temple of Kalabsheh

 

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Kasr Ibrim and a view down the Nile in Nubia

 

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The grotto temple of Abu Simbel, seen from the Nile

 

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The sixty-five foot portrait statues of Ramses II at Abu Simbel

 

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Looking down on the river past front of Abu Simbel temple

 

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Interior of rock-hewn temple of Abu Simbel

 

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Second cataract of the Nile

 

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The toomb of the Mahdi at Omdurman, Sudan

 

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Governor's palace and armored steamer leaving Khartum, Sudan

 

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"Lepers" outside of Jerusalem