20 Interesting Vintage Photos Capture Daily Life in Cairo From the Late 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Egyptian bootblacks cleaning a European's shoes in Cairo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1870

A white lady in crinoline, attended by two women, in a harem in Cairo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1870

Hired musicians, riding camels “decked in gaudy trappings”, lead the bridal party to the house of the bridegroom, Cairo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1890

The tram station in Midan El-Ataba El-Khadra, or Ataba Square in Cairo, Egypt, March 1919. The building on the left surmounted by a globe is the Tiring department store. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

An Egyptian girl with feathers at a Cape to Cairo Red Cross fete in Central Hall. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). December 1915

English soldier Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby, 1st Viscount Allenby, at work on the verandah of the Residency at Cairo with his Egyptian servant. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 1918

Old buildings in the Touloun quarter of Cairo. Examples of highly decorated “mashrubiyeh” windows. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1880

A lemonade seller in Cairo offers glasses of lemonade on small brass trays. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1905

Tourists and souvenir hunters visit the tomb of Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamen, discovered by Howard Carter, in the Valley of the Kings in Luxor. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). Circa 1922

Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova (1885 – 1931) in the garden of the Shepherd's Hotel, on a “Cunarder Scythias” trip to the Mediterranean Society in Cairo. (Photo by Topical Press Agency/Getty Images). 1923

General Edmund Henry Hynman Allenby (1861 – 1936), High Commisioner in Egypt from 1919–1925, taking the salute in Cairo. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1919

Prince Friedrich Leopold of Prussia (with hand on hip) attends the opening of the tomb of Tutankhamen at Luxor, by the Egyptian government. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). 1922

Soldiers watching treasures being removed from Tutankhamen's tomb. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). Circa 1923

Aerial view of Howard Carter's archaeological excavations of the tombs of the Pharoahs Ramesses VI and Tutankhamen (better known as King Tut), Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Egypt, 1922

British archaeologist Howard Carter (1874 – 1939) at Tutankhamen's tomb. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1st March 1923

Opera Square or Midan Opera in Cairo, with the opera house in the background and on the right, an equestrian statue of Ibrahim Pasha by Charles Cordier, circa 1910. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Members of the Mesopotamia Commission, set up to discuss the future of Mesopotamia at the Cairo Conference. Included in the photograph are Gertrude Bell (second from left, second row), T E Lawrence (fourth from the right, second row) and Winston Churchill (centre front row). (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Getty Images). 1921

Abdullah bin al-Hussein, Emir of Transjordan (later King Abdullah I of Jordan, 1882–1951, in car, left), in Cairo for a meeting with the British High Commissioner in Egypt Edmund Allenby, circa 1921. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

A barber at work in Cairo. (Photo by P. Schoefft/Hulton Archive/Getty Images). 1880

British Colonial Secretary Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965) in Cairo for the 1921 Cairo conference, at which he helped establish the borders of the modern Middle East. (Photo by General Photographic Agency/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)