Lehnert & Landrock Tunis and Cairo, Egypt Austrian photographer Rudolf Franz Lehnert met Ernst Heinrich Landrock in Switzerland in 1904. They opened a shop in Tunis that same year with Landrock as manager. Here they sold stereo-views and printed postcards of their photos. They produced a great body of work depicting scenes of ordinary street life and types. World War One broke out in 1914 and ended their operation. In 1924 the old partners agreed to set up the Orient Art Publishing House in Cairo. Here they continued their old tradition of publishing postcards in a sepia gravure but they also produced a variety of chromolithographic cards in bright colors. Many of these views continued to depict life on the street. Images of Palestine and Syria were added to their Egyptian inventory. In 1930 Lehnert returned to work as a portrait photographer in Tunis having sold his share of the business to Landrock who continued to manage the store. Landrock retired to Germany, passing the store down to his Swiss stepson Kurk Lambelet in 1939. Their Sherif Street shop continues to exist as a source of guide books and related materials but has not published any postcards since Landrock left Egypt.