Cleopatra's needle : an account of the negotiations leading up to its gift to the city of New York by the Khedive of Egypt, its removal and its history and inscriptions, reprinted from "Egypt and its betrayal"
An account by Elbert E. Farman, the American consul-general in Egypt who negotiated the obelisk's transfer, reprinted in 1908 by the Grafton Press in New York for readers following the monument's removal to Central Park. Halftone photographs show the standing obelisk in Alexandria amid sheds and onlookers, hieroglyph-cut shafts at Luxor, and close views of weathered masonry courses and temple rubble.
