"Sphinx and Pyramids", Egypt
place: label: Place
content: Egypt
topic: label: Topic
content: Works of art
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content: Stephen Grant postcards
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content: Stephen Grant postcards / Egypt - Sphinx
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Postcard (Binder, color, 5.5 x 3.5 in)
unitdate: label: Date
content: c. 1927
container: label: Container
content: Binder 16
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.2001-001, Item EEPA 2001-001-4348
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Postcards
label: Type
content: Postcards
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Title created using postcard caption.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Sphinx and Pyramids, Egypt; SPHINX OF GIZEH AND PYRAMIDS[,] EGYPT, AFRICA[,] This is the most remarkable Sphinx, a colossal[,] form, hewn out of the natural rock, and lying three[,] hundred feet east of the second pyramid. It measures[,] 172 ft. 6 inches long by 56 ft. high. In front of the[,] breast is a small naos or chapel, formed of three[,] hieroglyphical tablets, dedicated by the monarchs[,] Thotmes III. and Ramses II., who adored the sphinx[,] under the name of the "Sun on the Horizon".; IRC&N [logo]; 410-32; This side for Address.; POST CARD; Place Stamp[,] Here[,] Domestic[,] Canada Cuba[,] Mexico, Hawaii[,] Philippines[,] Porto Rico[,] 1 Cent[,] Foreign[,] 2 Cents. Published by IRC&N