The title of the painting, which is known in English as Mona Lisa, comes from a description by Renaissance art historian Giorgio Vasari, who wrote "Leonardo undertook to paint, for Francesco del Giocondo, the portrait of Mona Lisa, his wife."
View of the three-story building where the Daily Alta California Newspaper's publication office was located. A man stands at the entrance to the building.
The K.A.C. Creswell Photographs of Islamic Architecture digital collection currently contains over 300 oversized photographs collected by K.A.C. Creswell of Islamic architecture in Egypt. Photographs were collected by Creswell from notable photographers in Cairo such as Antonio Beato, and G. Legekian. Notable buildings in the collection include the Mosque of Muhammed Ali, the Al-Azhar mosque, and the Mosque of Ibn Tulun as well as domestic architecture.