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Photo ID number: B7082_NS

Photo subjects: People & places: Site: Giza; View: Giza, Harvard Camp

Description: Visit of Queen Marie of Romania: Queen Marie (in dark dress, with parasol), her youngest daughter Princess Ileana (white dress), and George Reisner (out of view in front with cane), in cemetery G 7000 by Hetepheres magazine, looking N toward Khedive Ismail rest-house (built in 1869, demolished by King Farouk in 1944, who built his rest-house in 1946; architect: Mustapha Fahmy Pasha); Hansmartin Handrick in pith helmet facing camera; identity of older woman in light-colored dress not certain

Photo date: 03/17/1930

Literature reference: see photo of this group, with Reisner, between the paws of the Sphinx published in Alain Blottière, Vintage Egypt. Cruising the Nile in the Golden Age of Travel (Pollina: Flammarion, 2003), p. 119