"The Great Sphinx", 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
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content: 1 Postcard (Binder, color, 5.5 x 3.5 in)
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 2001-001-4306
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content: Archival materials
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content: Postcards
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content: Postcards
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content: Title created by archives staff; typed description on verso
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content: THIS SPACE FOR CORRESPONDENCE; The Great Sphinx, Egypt.--This picture represents the[,] great Gizeh, or great Sphinx, being one of a group of[,] Sphinx that are supposed to be tombs and monuments of[,] the great kings of Egypt. This particular Sphinx is 188[,] feet in length, and is hewn out of a natural eminence in[,] the solid rock. Steps lead down to the front of this won-[,]derful monument, where are sanctuaries and tablets of[,] very ancient dates. At one time they were most imposing[,] monuments, but centuries of change have made a desert of[,] a once wonderful place, and the Sphinx are partly sub-[,]merged in sand.; FOR ADDRESS ONLY; POST CARD; PUT[,] ONE-CENT[,] STAMP[,] HERE.