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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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'.

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.

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.

241 x 190 mm. Location unidentified.

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

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

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.

296 x 212 mm.

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

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.

Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

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).

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

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

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.