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Street scene with the Tribunal Mixed (Courts) behind.

A group of men standing and seated at the side of the road.

Mosque el Rifai, Cairo seen from street level.

The Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo taken from the side. In the foreground are pedestrians, a cyclist, a street sweeper and a man with a horse and cart.

A view of rooftops, mosques and minarets.

The railway station at Cairo at Bab el Haded Square.

A view of a church identified as the Elizabeth Church in the list of photographs.

A large mosque identified as The Citadel set on a low hill.

A road bridge across the Nile. Large numbers of pedestrians are waiting on the pavement. Police on horses are doing crowd control.

A street scene in front of the el Azhar Mosque

Headlines: Rommel's army in full retreat, 9000 prisoners taken, relentless attacks on disorderly columns, commander if Afrika Korps captured. 12 nights and days of attacks by allied forces, General von Stumme captured. 260 German and Italian tanks…

First article headlines: 8th army on heels of fleeing enemy, prisoners expected soon to number 100000, drive ahead, Montgomery new order to his troops. Account of operations in desert against German and Italian forces. Second article mentions…

Article 1. Headlines: Paulus and 15 generals captured, 18,000 more prisoners at Stalingrad, total force surrounded known to be 330,000, Germans peril in Caucasus. Article 2. Headlines: Mr Churchill flies to Turkey, meeting with president Inönü,…

Article 1 headlines: Churchill-Roosevelt-talks, closest unity, General Smuts joins premier and president in news Cairo conference. Article 2 headlines; Scharnhorst sunk in arctic battle, attack by home fleet guarding Russian convoy, long fight off…

A programme for a race meeting at Helmieh. There are four races with six horses in each race. On the front are a cartoon of two horses and riders, one carrying a mace and the second has a shirt with the caption 'Another shirt gone?'.

The leaflet has two maps of Cairo and adverts for holidays, restaurants, a book on Cpyrus [sic], language books and Arabic, French and Italian phrases.

A newspaper account of Dick Curnock's flight to Cairo to visit his ill brother.

Four items from an album.
Item 1 is a photo of five men in swimming trunks at a beach bar, captioned 'Eric, Ken, Cliff and self'.
Item 2 is a photo of a man in trunks sitting on a chair, captioned 'John at boat club, Karachi'.
Item 3 is a postcard…

Two postcards of the interior of the Palace Hotel, Heliopolis, taken from an album.

Four photographs from an album.
Photo 1 is Wag and Len walking along a street.
Photo 2 is a car on a street.
Photo 3 is an open air cafe.
Photo 4 is a group mainly squatting on the pavement, captioned 'Boot Blacks (Shoe shine Captain George?)'.

Five photographs from an album.
Photo 1 and 4 are bridges over the Nile.
Photo 2 is a view across the river.
Photo 3 and 5 are head and shoulders of Sam.

Two cyclists in a race. Background is blurred. On the reverse 'Cycle Race TURA'

The winner of the cycle race receiving a trophy. On the reverse 'Ray Herd receiving prize. Tura'.

German language leaflet. On the reverse times and frequencies from Cairo, Bari and middle Mediterranean. Delivered by RAF and USAAF.

A port side view of a York on the ground. It is annotated 'Mountbatten's York visiting Cairo'. In front is a guard in khaki and shorts.