Keywords: La rue du Caire. Avenue de Suffren - Champ-de-Mars.jpg The Cairo Street was a reconstitution of what was perceived as a typical Egyptian street In the 1889 exhibit it was financed by the Baron Delort de Gléon who was a French entrepreneur living in Egypt The Cairo street was a very successful attraction and would appear again in several other World Fairs The ornaments that can be seen on the houses had been stripped down from several Cairo buildings The street included a smaller version of the Minaret of Qayt Bey but the reconstitution was far from being realistic Instead it included many attractions that a European public would have expected such as bellydancers and whirling dervishes but which were not necessarily representative of what a real street of Cairo would have looked like 1889 photo-mechanical engraving 25 5 x 19 5 cm Institution Brown University Library object history exhibition history credit line Glücq L' album de l'Exposition 1889 Vol 1 Paris Ch Gaulon 1889 accession number 1254162040163050 PD-old Rue du Caire de l'Exposition Universelle 1889 Images of Paris from the Brown University Library 1889 in Egypt |