Stereoscope card with the image of a man dressed in a red robe with a jug on his back walking down the street. "831. Water seller in the streets of Cairo, Egypt." On the back reads: "No. 831. Water Seller on the Streets of Old Cairo, Egypt. The street scenes presented by the City of the Khalifs afford an inexhaustible fund of amusement and delight to the traveler, admirably illustrating the whole world of oriental fiction. What makes Cairo so romantic and novel, is the contrast of barbarous and civilized scenes and incidents it presents, which forcibly strike and interest event the most blasé European, and which recur in every phase of life in this Arabian capital of the desert, and indeed throughout all Egypt. One of the strangest aspects in the water seller who wanders about crying: 'Oh, may God compensate me!' An Arab merchant, in flowing robe and turban, sitting on the floor of his diminutive shop, a mere recess in the wall, beckons to the water seller who walks up to him and exchanges a draft from the jar for a penny, then pursues his way, while the merchant hangs a network curtain over his goods and goes to the mosque to pray, sure to find his wares untouched when he returns." "A8723". 7"x 3 1/2".
