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241 x 190 mm. Location unidentified.

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65 x 45 mm. An aerial view of the coastline. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.

Scope and Contents A collection of albums containing photographs, the majority taken by A.C. McKay but some by R.V. Kamath and by professional photographers.The collection consists of photographs mostly 85 x 60 mm, but with occasional enlargements, carefully mounted in large albums and described in some detail in clear white writing on the black leaves. Each album is numbered on the spine, and clearly formed part of a larger collection than has been received.McKay was a prolific photographer,...

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60 x 85 mm. A group stood beside a small stone plinth. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.

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This collection of photographs by D. S. George, F. Fiorillo and G. Lekegian provides an important record of the construction work on the dam, with great detail discernible in some of the larger pictures. In addition there are photographs reflecting aspects of British social life in Egypt (plates 40-60) and the outbreak of war in 1914 (plates 61-67). The captions have been used as titles and have been recorded as found. Titles composed by the cataloguer are enclosed in square brackets.

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78 x 78 mm. A view showing Count Calderari standing on a flight of steps (at Aswan ?). Presumably Calderari was the Italian observer on the expedition.

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296 x 212 mm.

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233 x 156 mm. A view showing a large crocodile (probably dead) on the banks of the Nile in the Philae region.

Scope and Contents Album of photographs by various photographers inscribed 'H.M.S. Lancaster; Mediterranean Photographic Album: Diary of Events and Important Places Visited during the Commission 1910-1912' on the cover. This album was the property of Sydney Harold Liddle, whose name also appears on the front cover.There are two unnumbered plates followed by 190 prints, 140 x 97 mm numbered from 9 to 197, followed by a further unnumbered print. There is no indication as to why numbers 1-8 are not...

Scope and Contents Album containing photographs of various sizes together with three loose prints. From internal evidence it was compiled by Dr Cuthbert Christy, but was not with his papers and photographs received from the Royal African Society in 1972. The photographs in this collection are chiefly of two types, large albumen or collodio-chloride prints and small (?) collodio-chloride prints which are generally inferior in subject and quality. Some of the larger ones are clearly professional work; others...

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291 x 243 mm. A view looking down onto and along the top of the dam shortly after the official opening with the reservoir, at left, filled with flood water.

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Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

Scope and Contents Album of photographs relating to Miss Hartley's nursing activities in India, and places visited by her. These photographs are chiefly amateur snapshots taken by Miss Hartley or her friends and are 70 x 110 mm or smaller, unless otherwise stated; a few have been enlarged to post card size and there are also some commercially produced post cards which are so identified. Number 120 to 136 were taken by a missionary, and are her copyright. The descriptions of the photographs are drawn partly...

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Diaries with inserted photographs, drawings and other items.

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Prominent subjects include Bell’s social life, interests, personal affairs and travel, and a series of letters published in the press dealing with Japanese expansion and international peacekeeping, fish and animal welfare, the Loc Ness monster, cruelty to animals in film, and seventeenth-century administration of Saint Kitts (circa 90 sheets).

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299 x 239 mm. A view showing Egyptian labourers digging an irrigation canal with horse drawn railway trolleys for transporting earth.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

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229 x 164 mm. A pleasing composition looking up towards the ruined mosque and the rocky hillside from the bank of the Nile, with a clump of palms in the foreground.

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

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Johnson served with the CMS mission in Palestine for 13 years, mostly at Kervah; from 1908 he served in Baghdad

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82 x 82 mm. glass slides with brief, undated captions.

Scope and Contents Album of photographs recording Paton's missionary work in China. The photographs are captioned and have been numbered in pencil, but as there are several sequences, and these are not complete, fresh numbers have been given. Plates 68 to 78 show scenes taken in late August 1896 on Kulangsoo, the island south of Amoy (also known as Xiamen). The institutional work of the Amoy mission was centred here as it was found to be healthier than Amoy itself.There are three missing...

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284 x 213 mm.

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A sketch book, 15" x 11", of 21 completed full-page pencil drawings, watercolours and wash drawings and 16 smaller or unfinished sketches of Egypt, each with a brief description and date. The drawings are chiefly of architectural remains. There is no signature or indication of the artist's identity.

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285 x 232 mm. A view showing a section of the eastern end of the dam with a small settlement of houses in the foreground (probably the residence of European engineers and supervisors). In the distance the partially submerged island of Philae can just be seen.