Jewish woman and husband, Tunis, Tunisia, 1890-1923.
Source: Library of Congress
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Libyan Jewish classroom in a synagogue, Benghazi, Libya, 1930-1940.
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Queen Nariman of Egypt, 1951.
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M. Delie & E. Bechard, Auguste Mariette, Dona Josefina da Fonseca Costa, lady-in-waiting of the Empress, Luís Pedreira do Couto Ferraz, Baron of Bom Retiro, Empress Teresa Cristina, an unidentified man and Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil, surrounded by local Egyptians during the Emperor’s trip to Egypt, 1871.
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Place Mohammed Ali, Alexandria, Egypt, 1910s.
Armand, Nariman Sadek, the last Queen Consort of Egypt, a few days before King Farouk I and Queen Nariman’s wedding ceremony, May 1951.
source: Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Memory of Modern Egypt Digital Archive
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Riad Shehata, King Farouk I of Egypt with his wife Queen Farida and their daughter Princess Ferial, 1938-1939.
Source: Library of Congress
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Nazli Sabri, Queen Consort of Egypt on her coronation day, 28 February 1922.
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Roger Fenton, Ismail Pacha and Attendants, Egypt, 1855, salt print.
Source: The Art Institute of Chicago
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William Herman Rau, The Muski, the Great Street of Cairo and One of the Most Interesting in the World, Egypt, ca. 1903.
Source: Library of Congress
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