Photography

[Photos] Photoglob Zürich

Four coloured photos of Egypt

1890s 20,5 x 26,5 cm.

Some small creases. One photo with a few short tears.

The photos are: Kairo. Pays (?) et femmes rentrant des champs; Kairo, venduses de cannes a sucre; Kairo, el kafr et les pyramides; Heliopolis, Sakkieh. The photos are marked P. Z. which stands for Photoglob Zürich, a company specializing in lithographic printing of colours on photographs, in other words the present photos are not colour photographs, they are colour prints on black and white photos. The company was founded in 1889 and their pictures soon became very popular. Exotic motifs such as these are uncommon.

Item No: 4182