Stereoscopic views of Egypt

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

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.


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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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 
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11Pompey's Pillar, the sailor's landmark, and modern Alexandria
 
12Cairo- home of the Arabian nights, greatest city of Africa
 
13Citadel and Mohammed Ali Mosque beyond Bab-el-Wezir cemetery, Cairo
 
14Cairo- looking southwest across city to pyramids
 
15A "Ship of the Desert" passing tombs of by-gone Moslem rulers, Cairo
 
16Tomb Mosque of Sultan Kait Bey, Cairo
 
17The prayer-niche and pulpit in the tomb mosque of Kait Bey, Cairo
 
18The Holy Carpet Parade with the Mahmal, Cairo
 
19The harem-windows in the court of a wealthy Caiene's house
 
110Diorite statue of King Khafre, builder of the Second Pyramid of Gizeh, Cairo
 
111The famouse wooden statue called the Shekh-el-Beled, in the Museum, Cairo
 
112Mummy of Sethos I, who lived in the 14th Century, B.C., Cairo
 
113The jewelry of Queen Ahhotep, 17th Century B.C., Cairo Museum
 
114The stela of Amenophis III, Cairo Museum
 
115The great Nile bridge at Cairo
 
116The road to the pyramids from near Cairo
 
117The Great Pyramid of Gizah
 
118King Khufu's tomb, the Great Pyramid of Giza
 
119Looking up the northeast corner of the Great Pyramid
 
120From the summit of the Great Pyramid looking East
 
121The second pyramid
 
122Looking down the southwest corner of the Great Pyramid
 
123Entrance to the Great Pyramid
 
124Looking down the main passage to Khufu's sepulchre within the great pyramid
 
125 Khufu's sarcophagus broken by robbers
 
126Ruins of the granite temple, the Sphinx, and great Pyramid
 
127The Sphinx
 
128Statue of Ramses II
 
129Attempt of pyramid
 
130Quarry chambers of Masara
 
131The obelisk of Heliopolis
 
132The brick store-chambers of Pithom, built by Hebrew bondsmen
 
133Dahabiyehs on the river ready for a Nile Voyage
 
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234Watchoing a sand whirlwind
 
235An Egyptian "shaduf" lifting Nile waters to the fields
 
236An Egyptian Sakieh
 
237Threshing in Egypt
 
238The winnowing of the grain
 
239Brick making as seen today
 
240The tomb of a feudal lord at Benihasan built about 1900 B.C.
 
241Cliff-tombs of the lords of Assiut
 
242Assuit, the largest city of Upper Egypt
 
243The temple of Sethos I, Abydos
 
244Columns of Sethos I temple
 
245Sethos I and Ramses II worshipping ancestors
 
246Temple of Hathor at Denderah
 
247Across the plain of Thebes and past the Memnon statues
 
248The deserted Temple of Luxor
 
249The Moslem mosque in the court of Luxor Temple, Thebes
 
250Colonnade, Luxor Temple, Thebes
 
251Ramses II obelisk in front of Luxor Temple
 
252Grand avenue approaching the temple of Karnak, Thebes
 
253Tempole at Karnak, Thebes
 
254Excavating an avenue to the temple of Karnak
 
255Avenue of sacred images after excavation, Karnak, Thebes
 
256The great court of the Karnak Temple, Thebes
 
257Colonnade, Karnak, Thebes
 
258Looking across sacred lake to graet temple, Karnak, Thebes
 
259Middle aisle of the great hall and obelisk of Thutmosis I, Karnak, Thebes
 
260The tallest obelisk in Egypt, in the temple of Karnak, Thebes
 
261Plants and animals brought from Syria by the Pharoahs, Karnak, Thebes
 
262Great war reliefs sculptured in the wall at Karnak Temple, Thebes
 
263Records of the campaign of Shishak who captured Jerusalem, Karnak, Thebes
 
264Colossal "Memnon" statues at Thebes
 
265The Ramesseum-temple of Ramses II at Thebes
 
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366From roof of Ramesseum over the Plain of Thebes
 
367Plain of Thebes and the colossi of Memnon, seen from the Ramesseum
 
368Looking south over the Theban plain and Temples of Medinet Habu
 
369Painted tomb-chamber hewn in the rock of the cliffs at Thebes
 
370Colonnaded terraces of templew at Der-el-Bahri, Thebes
 
371Reliefs of Queen Makere's expedition to East Africa, Der-el-Bahri, Thebes
 
372From the high cliffs at Der-el-Bahri across the plain to Luxor, Thebes
 
373Down the Nile from the western cliffs of Thebes
 
374Valley of the kings' tombs at Thebes
 
375Descending gallery in tomb of Sethos I, Thebes
 
376Looking north to temple of of Sethos I, Thebes
 
377The first pylon of the great temple at Medinut Habu, Thebes
 
378The hunting of the wild bull, carved on temple wall at Medinut Habu
 
379Scenes of battle and the chase carved on wall at Medinut Habu, Thebes
 
380Walled City of El Kab, seen from door of a tomb in the cliffs
 
381The pylon and court of the temple of Horus at Edfu
 
382Temple at Edfu
 
383The Holy of Hollies and shrine for the divine image, temple of Edfu, Egypt
 
384Assuan and thew island of Elephantine from the western cliffs
 
385Tomb of Harkhuf, a frontier baron in the days of the pyramid builders
 
386The Nilometer (measurer of inundations) at the first cataract
 
387Ninety-two foot obelisk still lying in the quarry of Assuan
 
388Inscription of a seven year's famine on an island in the Nile
 
389Philae, the "Pearl of Egypt"
 
390Looking down on the island of Philae and its temples
 
391The great Assuan dam seen from the Philae temple
 
392The Nubian temple of Kalabsheh
 
393Kasr Ibrim and a view down the Nile in Nubia
 
394The grotto temple of Abu Simbel, seen from the Nile
 
395The sixty-five foot portrait statues of Ramses II at Abu Simbel
 
396Looking down on the river past front of Abu Simbel temple
 
397Interior of rock-hewn temple of Abu Simbel
 
398Second cataract of the Nile
 
399The toomb of the Mahdi at Omdurman, Sudan
 
3100Governor's palace and armored steamer leaving Khartum, Sudan
 
334"Lepers" outside of Jerusalem

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