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45 x 70 mm. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.

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154 x 114 mm. A view showing troops eating their breakfast at Luxor station platform, with their rifles stacked in rows in front of them.

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154 x 126 mm. A view showing troops eating their breakfast at Luxor station platform, with their rifles stacked in rows in front of them.

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152 x 138 mm. A view showing Camerons leaving one of the double-decker transport barges.

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65 x 45 mm. Showing men women and children stood in front of what appear to be tents constructed from blankets. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.

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281 x 224 mm. Showing the landing place, jetty and buildings, with ships moored or at anchor at the left. Terre-Plein stands on an artificial island SE of Suez which was created during the construction of the canal and connected to Suez by a 50 feet wide stone pier. Photograph by Zangaki.

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260 x 202 mm. View looking along the Suez Canal at Kilometre 143, with two steam vessels moored at a landing station in the foreground.

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A record of the Air Ministry Survey and Organisation Mission.

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78 x 78 mm. A view showing Captain Adolf von Tiedemann (1865-1915) standing at the bottom of a flight of steps (at Aswan ?). Tiedemann was an officer with Peters' Emin Pasha Expedition and served as an observer during the Dongola Expedition.

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281 x 226 mm. View from the Great Nile Bridge looking north along the east bank of the Nile, with dhows on the river in the foreground and part of the extensive military barracks at the right. The caption on the print is hard to read. Photograph by Zangaki.

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286 x 222 mm. A view from Elephantine Island looking across the Nile towards the Cataract Hotel, an imposing building that overlooks the river south of the town.

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295 x 232 mm. A view looking along the spacious dining-room of the Cataract Hotel, a high ceilinged room in vaguely Egyptian style, with rows of tables laid for a meal.

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133 x 83 mm. A view from the harbour looking towards a landing quay where a ceremonial arch has been erected in anticipation of George V’s visit. Photographer unknown, probably Henry Williamson.

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15 sheets.

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22 sheets.

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22 sheets

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30 sheets.

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Political papers relating to Childers' public career and private papers concerning his family, first wife Emily (nee Walker, 1827-1875) and their eight children.

Scope and Contents Contains loose photographs relating to various of Christy's travels; some photographs are his own and some are by professional photographers. Subjects include: scenes on the Nile including pyramids; railway views in Kenya; rubber trees and cultivation in Nigeria, Uganda and the Cameroons; scenes in the Congo including sufferers of sleeping sickness and ethnic groups of Central Africa of shorter than average height described as Pygmies; scenes in India; scenes from travels in Norway,...

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194 x 229 mm. Attributed to Tancrède Dumas by Deborah Bull in 'Up the Nile' (1979).

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Disbound album, containing albumen prints of various sizes. The contents include family photographs, scenes of the outward voyage (including France, Italy and Egypt), views in India including the 1877 Delhi Durbar, portraits and groups, including theatrical ones, maps and newspaper clippings (non photographic items are unnumbered). Also included is an envelope containing some of, what appears to be the original captions cut from the album. The collection is well captioned.

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153 x 114 mm. A view showing Grenadier Guards on the beach at Sidi Gabr with tents pitched at the left of the print. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'The Grenadiers at Sidi Gabr, near Alexandria'.

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157 x 229 mm. A view showing the ruins of Cleopatra's Temple (about five miles south of Thebes) with an Arab sitting on broken rubble in the foreground.

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211 x 160 mm. A view showing the standing columns of the Temple at Erment (also spelt Armant) with piles of rubbish and a seated figure in the foreground. In his commentary Frith condemns the contemporary prejudice that anything less than three thousand years old is considered 'degenerate', modern - of no interest.