A highlight of the 1889 Exposition Universelle was the Rue du Caire, or Cairo Street. Devised by a wealthy French engineer who had moved to Cairo to take over his uncle’s mining business, the five-hundred-foot-long street consisted of recreated Egyptian architecture spanning various time periods, including cafés, houses, and even a mosque. The seeming authenticity of the attraction derived not only from its blue tiles, polychrome marble, copperwork, and stained-glass windows, but also from the participation of performers playing donkey drivers, shopkeepers, and belly dancers. The Orientalist subject was illustrated across media: in photographs, watercolors, and even a wax tableau at the Musée Grévin.