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90 x 130 mm.

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45 x 70 mm.

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An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

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45 x 65 mm.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: A collection of albums, containing captioned black and white photographs, taken by one, or more, people travelling in the same group. The albums form a photographic account of a six-month long touring holiday.Of the albums, the first ten are all of the same style and manufacture and each has an embossed title on the front. They follow the journey chronologically. The remaining two contain a smaller selection of images from the same journey, again in chronological order. They are...

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223 x 281 mm. Full length studio portrait of two Sudanese warriors, dressed in white and carrying spears. Photographer unknown, probably Zangaki.

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65 x 40 mm. A view of buildings and boats taken from the sea.

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Booklet entitled 'Suez' containing 12 detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez, the Canal and Port Said. Published by 'Lévy Fils et Cie, Paris'. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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A view looking shorewards, from the harbour at Suez.

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Booklet entitled 'Souvenir of Suez' containing detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez and the Canal. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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299 x 239 mm. A view showing Egyptian labourers at work shifting earth with horse drawn railway trolleys under the supervision of an European overseer. In the background can be seen the funnels of numerous large steamers, and it seems likely that this is Port Ismailia, where Henry Williamson worked as a canal constructor after work had finished on the Aswan Dam. Y3041B/38 may also have been taken in this area.

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66 x 42 mm. Ships in the canal.

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A view showing a small settlement of wooden huts on the bank of the canal.

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A view showing a palm surrounded house on the bank of the canal with a small wooden jetty in the foreground.

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A view from the Canal showing the Cairo express on the bank.

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A dull view looking over the Al Buhayrah al Murrah al Kubrá and Al Buhayrah al Murrah as Sughrá (salt lakes).

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A view from the canal showing a camel caravan on the bank, with one of the lakes on the canal route in the background.

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A view from the canal showing a camel caravan on the bank, with one of the lakes on the canal route in the background.

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A head-on view of the Japanese steamer in the canal.

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A view from the canal showing stone buildings and elevated water tanks of Al-Isma`iliyah.

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A view showing administrative buildings and a jetty on the canal bank.

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An uninformative slide taken from the ship and showing an undifferentiated blur on the bank of the canal.

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A head-on view of the steam yacht 'Lysistrata' in the canal.

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A blurred slide showing two men in a rowing boat taking the mooring line to the shore.

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A view showing the rowing boat near the banks of the canal with the mooring rope trailing behind her back to the ship.