View at Girgeh, 1857, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Photographs, Francis Frith (British, Chesterfield, Derbyshire

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View at Girgeh, 1857, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Photographs, Francis Frith (British, Chesterfield, Derbyshire 1822–1898 Cannes, France), During three trips to the Middle East between 1856 and 1860, Frith made hundreds of negatives that he organized geographically and then printed in several illustrated books. In the text that accompanies this view, published in his 1858 book on Egypt and Palestine, Frith explains how the mosque originally attached to the minaret had slid, along with much of the village, down the mud slopes and into the Nile

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