| Unidentified photographer/creator Photograph vendors of Cairo 1878 Book page Google Books LL/36012 Karl Baedeker (firm) Egypt. Handbook for Travellers. Part First: Lower Egypt, with the Fayum and the Peninsula of Sinai (Leipsic: Karl Baedeker, 1878), p.234-235.
Photographs. Schoefft, Abbasiyeh Street (Place Faghalla), with a good background for groups: also a fine collection of groups of natives, and a few desert scenes, some of which are very striking (various prices ; a collection of 25, of small size, is sold for 25 fr.). Helios, Rue du Tribunal, with a handsome studio; Calamidia, Kosetti Garden: Bechart, in the Ezbekiyeh Garden, and others. Among the numerous photographs of Egyptian landscapes and temples the best are those by Sebah of Constantinople, which may be purchased at his depot, adjoining the French consulate in the Ezbekiyeh, or at Kauffmann's. Hr. E. Brugsch, the keeper of the Bulak Museum (p. 293), has caused a number of the objects in the museum to be photographed. This collection, which costs 25 fr., maybe purchased at the museum, or at Kauffmann's, but is not sold by the photographers.
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