Images in this collection
RECORD DATE NOT STATED Sailing boats with cargo on the Nile, Group of sailing boats sailing up the Nile, photograph, Part of Travel Album with 80 Photos of Egypt., negative number: 1415 , photographer: Maison Bonfils, Egypt, c. 1870 - c. 1898, North Africa, pasteboard, paper, albumen print, height 223 mm x width 280 mm, sailing-ship, sailing-boat, Nile, A wide water scene filled with multiple sailboats with large triangular sails, some sails overlapping and billowing, several small dark-hulled boats close to the camera and more farther back, a larger vessel at the right edge stacked high with rounded objects, a long low building with rows of windows along the shoreline, a metal bridge visible in the distance, vertical masts and poles rising from some boats, calm Copyright Penta Springs LCK260531_03318
RECORD DATE NOT STATED Dahabie on the Nile, Passenger boat (dahabie) on the Nile, photograph, Part of Travel Album with 80 Photos of Egypt., negative number: 95 , photographer: Maison Bonfils, Egypt, c. 1870 - c. 1898, North Africa, pasteboard, paper, albumen print, height 222 mm x width 278 mm, sailing-ship, sailing-boat, Nile, A large boat with tall masts and long spars is docked along a riverbank, showing a wooden hull with a row of cabin windows and an open deck with railings and steps leading down; several ropes, rigging lines, and ladders run up the masts, and a group of people wearing light clothing and head coverings sit or stand near the stern and along the deck; the river water is calm and stretches across the image with another boat partly visible in Copyright Penta Springs LCK260531_03317
RECORD DATE NOT STATED View of a dam on the Nile near Cairo, General view of the Nile dam, photograph, Part of a travel album with 80 photos of Egypt., check stamp: 1445 , photographer: Maison Bonfils, Egypt, c. 1870 - c. 1898, North Africa, pasteboard, paper, albumen print, height 221 mm x width 281 mm, dam, Ottoman Empire, Cairo (city), A wide riverside scene shows a long bridge extending into the distance with evenly spaced vertical supports rising from the water, leading to a series of brick towers with crenellated tops and arched openings; a larger ornate brick gateway with rounded turrets and decorative arches stands near the foreground, showing carved stonework and columned openings, while people in period clothing walk and stand near the entrance and on Copyright Penta Springs LCK260531_03316
