Middle Egypt

In the late 1860s, the Anthropology and Ethnography Institute in Berlin commissioned Carl W. Dammann to produce photographic studies of people from Northern Africa. In the early 1870s, Dammann was asked to expand the project to produce a portfolio of racial types from around the globe. Such an undertaking required him to collect and incorporate work by other photographers, and Otto Schoefft's souvenir photographs of Egyptian "types" were used to represent this page on Middle Egypt, included in the fourth volume of the portfolio.