Pyramids of Giza seen from the tramway

photographic print

A photograph of the Pyramids of Giza taken from the tramway that connected them to Cairo. This was a view popular in photographs and postcard from the time, emphasizing the contrast of the very ancient with a very modern mode of transportation, as well as representing the traveler's arrival at the pyramids. From an album of photos from a 1908 voyage to the Mediterranean on the CARPATHIA.