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

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

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85 x 60 mm. Showing three women and a young girl sat in the grass before their automobile. Location unidentified, but presumably Saqqara.

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45 x 65 mm. Showing a man stood in front of the rear end of an automobile. Location unidentified but probably Egypt.

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65 x 45 mm. Showing a stone ruin with a large arch. Location unidentified, but probably Egypt.

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283 x 218 mm. View looking down onto one of the locks at Ismailia. Photograph at Zangaki.

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...

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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.

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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.'

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! ...

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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).

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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.

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70 x 45 mm. A view looking over a tent, of the landscape, and buildings in the distance. A caption on the album page reads 'Cairo and Baghdad', this particular image was probably taken in Cairo.

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234 x 152 mm. A view showing the temple colonnades at the left of the print with the Nile winding away through a rocky landscape beyond. The island of Philae lies above the Asswan Dam, completed in 1906, and when the sluices were closed, the island was submerged. With the building of the second dam the problem of the survival of the monuments at Philae became acute and a twenty year project to remove the buildings to Agilkia has recently been completed.

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241 x 193 mm. A view from the top of the Great Pyramid of Cheops looking south-west towards the second and third pyramids (the Khefren and Menkewre pyramids), with the Libyan desert in the background.

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272 x 217 mm. View looking along a hillside towards the crenellated ramparts of an unidentified fortress. Precise location unknown.

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Approximately 220 x 160 mm. Photographer unknown.

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229 x 152 mm. A view showing part of the temple of Isis and the colonnade leading up to it, with broken rubble and stone in the foreground.

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261 x 195 mm. View looking along the Suez Canal, with a sailing vessel in the distance.

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278 x 216 mm. A view looking across part of the Nile towards an Arab settlement with a pyramid in the left background. Photograph by Georgiladakis.

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278 x 220 mm. A view looking across part of the Nile towards an Arab settlement with a pyramid in the left background. Photograph by Georgiladakis.

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288 x 225 mm A view from the Nile looking towards Aswan, with dhows and steamboats moored and the bank and the houses of the town beyond. The town lies some five miles north of the dam on the eastern bank of the river.

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276 x 222 mm. View looking along a section of waterfront at Alexandria, not precisely located, but probably on the East Harbour. Photograph by Zangaki.

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280 x 220 mm.