A traditional café, Cairo
Photograph
1887-1908 (photographed)
1887-1908 (photographed)
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A mounted sepia-coloured photograph of a coffe shop facade with three men in traditional Middle Eastern dress sitting out front on a bench.
Object details
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| Additional title | Café Arabe (published title) |
| Materials and techniques | Platinotype |
| Brief description | Photograph by Lekegian & Co., captioned 'Café Arabe'. Cairo, Egypt, platinotype, 1887-1908 |
| Physical description | A mounted sepia-coloured photograph of a coffe shop facade with three men in traditional Middle Eastern dress sitting out front on a bench. |
| Gallery label | Trades
Photographs showing craftspeople at work are rare in this period. Few people felt such ordinary activities were worth recording. We appreciate these images now for the insight they give us not only into how objects were made, but also the lives of the people making them. These examples by the Armenian photographer Gabriel Lékégian show coppersmiths and wood turners practicing their craft in workshops open to the street.
5. A traditional café
About 1887-95
Gabriel Lékégian
Museum no. PH.1408-1896
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| Credit line | Purchased from Mr. Somers Clarke, 11 June 1896 |
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| Other number | 187 - G. Lekegian & Co. inventory number |
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| Accession number | PH.1408-1896 |
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| Record created | August 21, 2014 |
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