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H. Delie & Cie. Phot. (Cairo, Egypt) 
Cleopatra‘s Needle (Obelisk), Alexandria 
1865 (ca) 
  
Carte de visite 
Christopher Wahren Fine Photographs 
 
LL/28693 
  
This is the selfsame obelisk later gifted to the United States. In 1879 the obelisk was removed from Alexandria, transported across the Atlantic in a specially-modified steamer and installed in Central Park, New York City, where it now resides.
 
Hippolyte Delié, Cairo, circa 1865. Card imprinted front "H. Delié & Cie. Phot." and on reverse "Photographie Universelle / H. Delié & Cie. / Caire (Egypte) / Succursale de la maison Pierson / Photographe de l'Emperor / Boulevart des Capucines, 3. / Paris." 
 

 
  
 
  
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