Procession of the Holy Carpet from Cairo

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Procession of the Holy Carpet from Cairo

PAU 1897-03

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1 Paul 75 (1897)  
2 Henry William Short  
 
Mr. Paul’s photographer has returned from a tour in Egypt with a series of 12 interesting and characteristic pictures taken in that country. In addition to local views, these include the annual procession of the Holy Carpet leaving Cairo for Mecca; a caravan of camels arriving at the Pyramids; Arab women fetching water from the Nile, and several pictures representing native industries and amusements, including:—Arab knife-grinders, cigarette-makers, fishermen, sawyers, and a native bullock-pump in work. The series of pictures will probably be produced for the first time next week the Oxford Music Hall.
Globe, Londres, samedi 24 avril 1897, p . 3.
 
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On Chawal 23, March 26, there will be a combined lord mayor's show and circus procession in Cairo-soldiers of the khedive as an escort, camels laden with orange branches and fruit, bands playing Arabian music, and pilgrims escorting the booth containing the carpet. Immense throngs line the way and struggle with each other for a chance to touch the sacred conveyance. The pilgrims camp in great state at the Pilgrim's lake, ten miles east of Cairo, but there the state ceases. The booth, camels and all, is laden on freight cars and choo-chooed to Suez, and there they are put on a khedivial steamer.
The Anaconda Standard, Anaconda, dimanche 7 mars 1897, p. 15.
4 Egypte. Le Caire.  

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Les vues publiées par Illustrated London News, en 1899, signées par Henry William Short sont probablement de 1897, à moins que ce dernier ne soit revenu au Caire en 1899, ce qui n'est pas prouvé.

1899 le caire 01 1899 le caire 03 1899 le caire 02
"Procession accompanying the pilgrimage to Mecca" "Carrying the holy carpet through the streets of Cairo" "Procession of the Marmal"
Photographs by Henry W. Short, London
Illustrated London News, Londres, samedi 24 juin 1899, p. 915.

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