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Egypt (nation)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 690 Collections and/or Records:

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[Man in front of walled town], 1927 - 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/23
Scope and Contents

70 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).
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[March past of troops], 1911 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/56
Scope and Contents

135 x 82 mm A view showing a contingent of troops marching through the streets of Port Said. Photographer unknown, probably Henry Williamson.

Dates: 1911 - 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).
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Meal time, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/8/13
Scope and Contents

241 x 190 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).
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[Men with aeroplane], 1927 - 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/22
Scope and Contents

45 x 70 mm. Showing three men stood beside an aeroplane (only the wing is partially visible) checking machinery in a hole in the ground. 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).
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[Military band ], 1911 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/57
Scope and Contents

135 x 82 mm. A view showing a military band marching through the streets of Port Said. Photographer unknown, probably Henry Williamson.

Dates: 1911 - 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).
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[Military camp], 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/64
Scope and Contents

135 x 78 mm. A view looking towards a military camp with rows of bell tents, and railway trucks in the foreground. Exact location unknown. 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).
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[Military Tournament, Gzira Sports Club, Cairo, 1906], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/40-41
Scope and Contents

143 x 84 mm. Two similar views showing an equestrian event during the tournament, with spectators leaning against a fence in the foreground. Photographer unknown, probably John Williamson.

Dates: 1906
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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[Military Tournament, Gzira Sports Club, Cairo, 1906], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/42-43
Scope and Contents

142 x 84 mm. Two views showing a tug-of-war event at the tournament with a large crowd of spectators watching the participants. Photographer unknown, probably John Williamson.

Dates: 1906
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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[Military Tournament, Gzira Sports Club, Cairo, 1906], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/44-45
Scope and Contents

142 x 84 mm. Two similar views showing spectators watching a display of cannon firing. Photographer unknown, probably John Williamson.

Dates: 1906
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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[Military Tournament, Gzira Sports Club, Cairo, 1906], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/46-47
Scope and Contents

144 x 84 mm. Two similar views showing spectators watching a display of highland dancing. Photographer unknown, probably John Williamson.

Dates: 1906
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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[Military Tournament, Gzira Sports Club, Cairo, 1906], 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/48-49
Scope and Contents

144 x 84 mm. Two similar views showing spectators watching a display of rodeo riding. Photographer unknown, probably John Williamson.

Dates: 1906
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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Miscellaneous glass plates, 1880 - 1980

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII
Scope and Contents

Nothing is known of the provenance of this collection of lantern slides and glass plates. The images likely were created to illustrate lectures given at the RCS.

Dates: 1880 - 1980
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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Mohammed Fadi, Spy, imprisioned and mutilated by Khalifa, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/7
Scope and Contents

78 x 78 mm. A view showing Mohammed Fadi on a flight of steps (at Aswan ?). His right hand and left foot have been chopped off.

Dates: 1898
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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[Moored boats], 1927

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/133
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm. 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).
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Mooring, Port Said, 1909

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011B(LS)/95
Scope and Contents

A view showing a ship's boat taking a line across to the shore.

Dates: 1909
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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Mosque de [illegible ?Bahouf] et Citadelle, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/20
Scope and Contents 274 x 228 mm. View looking along the eastern wall of the citadel towards the Mosque of Mohammed Ali. The Citadel is situated in the SE corner of Cairo and was begun by Saladin in 1176. The Gamia Mohammed Ali or Alabaster Mosque was begun by Mohammed Ali on the site of a palace blown up in 1824. It was completed in the form seen here by Saibl Pasha in 1857. The architect was a Greek Yasuf Boshna; this possibly accounts for the undeciphered word in the caption. The caption on the print...
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).
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Mother and baby with nurses, 1950 - 1969

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS/8/12
Scope and Contents

241 x 190 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).
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Mount Horeb, Sinai, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214C/2
Scope and Contents

227 x 160 mm. A view looking across the rocky plain of Er-Raha towards the triple summits of Mount Horeb.

Dates: 1860
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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Mount Serbal, from the Wadee Feyran, 1860

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214C/3
Scope and Contents 227 x 159 mm. A view from the north looking towards the rocky summit of Mount Serbal, with a valley floor and a gnarled tree which, according to Frith 'gives such great vigour to the picture' in the foreground. He continues, in his commentary: 'Nature is here stripped of the beautiful colours and forms that elsewhere vary her surface, and reduced to the above conditions of her older state. This naked simplicity, apart from the effect of lofty mountains and majestic forms, and of the pure...
Dates: 1860
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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Mr Lesseps’ house, Suez Canal, 1879 - 1880

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022NN/7
Scope and Contents

205 x 155 mm. View looking across the Canal (at Port Said) towards the two storey house of Ferdinand de Lesseps, builder of the canal.

Dates: 1879 - 1880
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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Mt. Sinai, 1900-02-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 158/8
Scope and Contents From the Fonds:

66 watercolours, 150 x 200 mm in size. The captions, including the names of institutions, have been recorded as found and may include language which is offensive, inaccurate or inappropriate. They have been retained to reflect the context of the collection's creation. Notes provided by H.B. Thomas have been incorporated into the description.

Dates: 1900-02-01
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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Mubin Sheppard and F.B.ff.S on shore Ismailia Egypt, 1928-01

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3031P/1
Scope and Contents

Mubin Sheppard, possibly with brother.

Dates: 1928-01
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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N: 611 Les trois pyramides de Giseh, Caire, 1870 - 1929

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/2
Scope and Contents

280 x 223 mm. A professional photograph bearing a caption in French and the name 'H Arnoux' which possibly relates to the photographer. The album page bears the caption 'The pyramids'.

Dates: 1870 - 1929
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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Native cart in Cairo, 1890 - 1899

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/398
Scope and Contents

Approximately 220 x 160 mm. Photographer unknown.

Dates: 1890 - 1899
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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Navy house, Port Said, 1906-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 9/195
Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints, of an approximate size of 80 x 100 mm, mounted on card, six to a page, in a padded black leather album inscribed on the cover India 1905-06 from C.C. and 'Photographs taken by Sir Charles Cust Bt. 1905-06' is written on the fly leaf in Queen Marys hand. Sir Charles Cust took this collection of amateur photographs while accompanying the Royal Party. Most of the photographs have elegant hand-written captiions, but these are not always very explicit - some portraying...
Dates: 1906-03
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).