What Cairo looked like in 1910

What Cairo looked like in 1910

Categories: Africa | History

These color photos were taken in Cairo in 1910, when it was growing rapidly. More precisely, these are slides painted by hand, on which you can see the long-gone times in the Egyptian capital. At that time ,the "city of a thousand minarets" was under British occupation, which lasted from 1882 to 1956.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

What Cairo looked like in 1910

1. Funeral in Cairo. (Oester­re­ich­sches Volkshochschularchiv/Imagno / Get­ty Images)

What Cairo looked like in 1910

2. A wedding procession in Heluan, a town south of Cairo.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

3. Poor people begging for alms, and local residents in a roadside cafe near the opera house.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

4. The medieval gate of Bab Zuweila of the Ottoman Empire era.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

5. Public transport in Egypt in 1910.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

6. The Kalaun Mosque, built at the beginning of the XIV century.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

7. Linen over the Cairo streets.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

8. The entrance to the El-Akmar Mosque, built in 1125.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

9. Men on the streets of the capital of Egypt.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

10. Local market.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

11. Covered lane.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

12. A soda seller in Heluan.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

13. Street vendors in Heluan.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

14. Arab Folk Festival.

What Cairo looked like in 1910

15. Prostitutes at the fish market in Cairo.

Keywords: Africa | History | Egypt | Archive | Cairo | Color slides

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