Egypt (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 725 Collections and/or Records:
File
Travels in Europe, 1874-07-11 - 1875-01-23
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011BBB
Scope and Contents
Vellum bound illustrated diary that describes Laing's journey through Great Britain (chiefly Scotland), July-September 1874 (pp. 1-32); France, Switzerland and Italy, September-December (pp. 33-144); Greece and Asia Minor, December (pp. 144-186); Egypt, December 1874-January 1875 (pp. 188-216); the Suez Canal and Palestine, January (pp. 218-270); and Egypt, 17-25 January; ending at Keneh with the note 'Continued in Vol. II' (pp. 272-286). The journey was apparently made in the company of an...
Dates:
1874-07-11 - 1875-01-23
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Treating a small patient, 1950 - 1969
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/8/9
Scope and Contents
247 x 196 mm. Location unidentified.
Dates:
1950 - 1969
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Troops], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/28
Scope and Contents
45 x 65 mm. Showing troops at inspection. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Troops at the Sphinx], 1882
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/6
Scope and Contents
274 x 212 mm. Showing a group of British soldiers posed beneath the Sphinx at Giza, with Pyramids in the background. The photograph probably dates from 1882, after the British victory of the Battle of Tel-el-Kebir.
Dates:
1882
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Troopship-passing station-Suez Canal, 1888 - 1889
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/4
Scope and Contents
280 x 218 mm. A view looking along the canal with ships moored on the far bank, and a troopship steaming up the canal. The station is the cluster of bungalows, with a flagstaff, on the far bank-presumably military garrisons, or stopping-off places on the journey (descendants of Waghorn’s stations on the overland route from Cairo to Suez?)
Dates:
1888 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Truck on roadside], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/9
Scope and Contents
45 x 70 mm.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Tymms], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/118
Scope and Contents
65 x 45 mm. Showing Tymms and others stood beside a moored boat. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Tymms on a camel], 1927
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/130
Scope and Contents
45 x 75 mm. Showing Tymms and a woman both sat on camels. A caption on the album page reads 'Cairo and Baghdad', but it is not clear the exact location of this particular image.
Dates:
1927
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Unidentified building], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/112
Scope and Contents
45 x 60 mm. Showing a large building with a dome and tower. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Unidentified building], 1927
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/131
Scope and Contents
45 x 70 mm. Showing a view of a large building, with a number of large metal drums on their sides in the street. A caption on the album page reads 'Cairo and Baghdad', but it is not clear the exact location of this particular image.
Dates:
1927
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Unidentified building], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/41
Scope and Contents
60 x 80 mm. Showing a small building. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Unidentified building], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/48
Scope and Contents
90 x 60 mm. Showing a large domed building with a camel train in the foreground. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Unidentified building], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/58
Scope and Contents
45 x 65 mm. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Unidentified domed building], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/83
Scope and Contents
65 x 45 mm. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Unidentified domed building], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/96
Scope and Contents
65 x 45 mm. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Unidentified group], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/201
Scope and Contents
85 x 60 mm. Showing three women and a young girl sat in the grass before their automobile. Location unidentified, but presumably Saqqara.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Unidentified man], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/95
Scope and Contents
45 x 65 mm. Showing a man stood in front of the rear end of an automobile. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Unidentified ruin], 1927 - 1928
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/93
Scope and Contents
65 x 45 mm. Showing a stone ruin with a large arch. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.
Dates:
1927 - 1928
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[Up-stream lock at Al-Isma`iliyah], 1880 - 1889
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/23
Scope and Contents
283 x 218 mm. View looking down onto one of the locks at Ismailia. Photograph at Zangaki.
Dates:
1880 - 1889
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
Valley of the Tombs of the Kings, 1857
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214B/26
Scope and Contents
280 x 155 mm. A view looking along the bare landscape of the Valley of the Tombs of the Kings at Thebes, with donkeys standing in the road in the foreground. Frith comments: 'they are situated at a distance of five or six miles from the river, at the extremity of a deep and romantic gorge in the mountains. The entire course of this ravine presents a spectacle of desolate grandeur, which is in the highest degree impressive ... There is not a blade of grass, nor a sign of life except when a...
Dates:
1857
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
[View across the Canal, Port Said], 1914
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/63
Scope and Contents
135 x 78 mm. A view looking across the Suez Canal at the same location as Y3041B/62 and Y3041B/61. Photographer unknown, probably Henry Williamson.
Dates:
1914
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
View at Girgeh [Jirja], Upper Egypt, 1857
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/26
Scope and Contents
154 x 226 mm. A view looking towards the Nile with the tower of a ruined mosque standing on the banks and balanced in the composition by two palm trees in the foreground. Frith states that there are also huts in the foreground which were: 'composed of Doura straw, and are the temporary portable homes a troupe of Gawazee, or dancing girls.'
Dates:
1857
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
View at Luxor, 1857
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/8
Scope and Contents
230 x 158 mm. A view showing monumental temple columns with a stone wall and a partially obscured obelisk (? the Tuthmoside obelisk) in the background. According to Frith: 'The great columns represented in my picture, with the expanded lotus flower capital, will at once be familiar to every Nile traveller; many of whom I have no doubt, with myself ... have hurried past the superb columns in hot haste to the temple Mustapha-Aga, the native English consular agent, for their letters! Mustapha's...
Dates:
1857
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
View from above navigation channel, 1902-07-22
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/8
Scope and Contents
291 x 243 mm. A view looking down onto the navigation locks and across the completed dam from the west bank with the as yet empty reservoir at the right. A photograph taken a few months before the official opening. Photographer unknown. (George or Fiorillo).
Dates:
1902-07-22
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
Item
View from above navigation channel, 1906-05-17
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/12
Scope and Contents
287 x 229 mm. A view looking along part of the northern wall of the dam from the west bank, with the full reservoir in the background and water pouring from the sluices over the newly constructed masonry aprons.
Dates:
1906-05-17
Conditions Governing Access:
From the Fonds:
Unless restrictions apply, the collection is open for consultation by researchers using the Manuscripts Reading Room at Cambridge University Library. For further details on conditions governing access please contact mss@lib.cam.ac.uk. Information about opening hours and obtaining a Cambridge University Library reader's ticket is available from the Library's website (www.lib.cam.ac.uk).
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