Cabinet card, 4 ¼ x 67 ½. Image of Little Egypt. Photo published by Newsboy.
"Little Egypt" was the stage name used by several belly dancers, most famously at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago. The most well-known of these was Fahreda Mazar Spyropoulos, but others, like Fatima Djemille and Ashea Wabe, also performed under the same name. The "Little Egypt" persona became synonymous with exotic, sensual belly dancing and contributed to the rise of burlesque and striptease. 
This image is of Ashea Wabe. She became front-page news in 1896 after she danced at the swank Fifth Avenue bachelor party for Herbert Seeley. A rival promoter reported that Wabe planned to dance nude and the party was raided by the vice squad. Though the raid precluded Wabe from completing her act, she nonetheless admitted to local authorities that she had been paid to dance and pose "in the all-together", a euphemism for having no clothes on. Theodore Roosevelt, then a New York City Police Commissioner, supported the police captain who conducted the raid and was subsequently vilified by the city media for interfering with a party held by upstanding gentlemen. Only later was it revealed that Wabe (a.k.a. Little India) had every intention of performing in the nude and would have done so had the police raid not occurred. The raid brought some amount of fame to Wabe. In fact, she was hired by Broadway impresario Oscar Hammerstein I to appear as herself in a humorous parody of the Seeley dinner. 
The image was originally taken by Falk of NY, and was produced by Newsboy. Newsboy was a tobacco company that used cabinet cards as premiums to encourage sales of their tobacco products.  
Exhibits some minor edge wear, overall Fine condition.