Cairo (inhabited place). Africa - Egypt - Urban - Cairo. Longitude: 31.2500. Latitude: 30.0500.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Journal of travels in the Near East and Greece of
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.10121
Scope and Contents
With an illustrated narrative of his residence in Cairo and Jerusalem and additional papers.
Dates:
1844-1845.
Letters to Grant Bey (James Andrew Sandilands Grant) and members of his family.
File
Identifier: MS.15976
Scope and Contents
James Grant (1840-1896), a physician working in Cairo, collected Egyptian antiquities, and his correspondence includes letters on both archaeological and medical topics from well-known figures in these fields. There are few references to contemporary events in Egypt and much of the correspondence concerns visitors to Cairo.
Dates:
[?1869]-1923.
Printed maps of North Africa.
File
Identifier: Acc.11150
Scope and Contents
Used on a journey by Michael Strachan and J Enoch Powell between Algiers and Cairo in 1943, many containing notes by the Strachan on their progress.
Dates:
circa 1943.