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Egypt (nation)

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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 733 Collections and/or Records:

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Egyptian woman, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/13
Scope and Contents

215 x 276 mm. Full length studio portrait of the woman seen in Y3042B/12. Apart from the veil, the woman is dressed in European style and carries a heart shaped fan.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Egyptian woman, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/14
Scope and Contents

275 x 215 mm. Full length studio portrait of a woman reclining on a chair; she wears pantaloons and a small waistcoat and holds the stem of a hookah. The photograph is taken against the same studio backdrop of palms and mountains as Y3042C/13.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Egyptian women, 1870 - 1879

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3011III/39
Scope and Contents

217 x 280 mm. A view of two Egyptian women.

Dates: 1870 - 1879
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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El Minsha. El Kubra, 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/166
Scope and Contents

69 x 44 mm. A group of people.

Dates: 1920
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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El Minsha el Kubrah, 23.2.20, 1920-02-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/275
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm. A group photograph. Some are wearing turbans. The man stood in the middle appears to be an important person in the group. Exact location unidentified.

Dates: 1920-02-23
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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El Minsha el Kubrah, 23.2.20, 1920-02-23

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/276
Scope and Contents

110 x 65 mm. Showing four men in discussion stood in a group facing one another, whilst a crowd of people apparently watching them form a long line some way in the distance. Exact location unidentified.

Dates: 1920-02-23
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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[English battleship], 1905 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/52
Scope and Contents

133 x 82 mm. A view showing an unidentified battleship in the Suez Canal, possibly a naval escort for the ‘Medina’s’ voyage to India. Photographer unknown, probably Henry Williamson.

Dates: 1905 - 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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[English gunboat], 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/65
Scope and Contents

138 x 80 mm. A view showing an unidentified naval gunboat moored at Port Said. 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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[English submarine], 1905 - 1914

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/54
Scope and Contents

144 x 84 mm. A view showing a Royal Naval submarine (number 68) steaming along the Suez Canal, with sandhills in the background. Photographer unknown, probably Henry Williamson.

Dates: 1905 - 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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Enslaved Nubian woman and child, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/31
Scope and Contents

188 x 238 mm. Half length studio portrait of a Nubian woman holding a baby.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Enslaved Nubian woman and child, 1870 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/32
Scope and Contents

215 x 277 mm Duplicate of Y3042B/31.

Dates: 1870 - 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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Entrance to the Great Temple, Luxor, 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/12
Scope and Contents

231 x 161 mm. A view showing the massive stone entrance to the temple with carved hieroglyphics over its face and flanked by two monumental statues of Rameses II buried to the shoulders in the sand and the rubble. Beyond the entrance can be seen the tower of a mosque of more recent date.

Dates: 1857
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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Entré de lacs Amers, 1860 - 1869

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3022B/85
Scope and Contents

291 x 230 mm.

Dates: 1860 - 1869
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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Entrée du Canal a Port Said, 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/16
Scope and Contents

271 x 215 mm. View looking south over the town and Canal, with docking areas in the background and Lake Menzaleh in the distance. Photograph by Zangaki.

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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Entrée du Canal à Port-Said, 1888 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y308A/2
Scope and Contents

270 x 218 mm. A view looking down from a roof top, showing quayside buildings and wharfs, ships moored at the entrance to the canal and the open sea on the horizon. No. 48 in a series of photographs by Zangaki.

Dates: 1888 - 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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Father Brindle, D.S.O. R.C. Chaplain, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/231
Scope and Contents

82 x 58 mm. A view showing Father Robert Brindle, a white-bearded figure wearing a large pith helment, standing in the desert. Brindle's DSO was awarded for services in the field during the Egyptian campaign.

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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[Ferry across the Suez Canal (i.e. Qanat as-Suways)], 1880 - 1889

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y302B/14
Scope and Contents

276 x 214 mm. Showing a camel caravan boarding a ferry somewhere along the route of the Suez Canal. The caption on the print is hard to read and part has been cut off at some stage. Photograph by Zangaki.

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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First African mission, 1928-01 - 1928-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

Dates: 1928-01 - 1928-08
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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First African survey, 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/6
Scope and Contents

Photographs taken in Egypt, Sudan, Kenya, Tanganyika and Zanzibar.

Dates: 1925
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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Flight of Lieut. Hon. E.D. Loch, D.S.O, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/229
Scope and Contents

80 x 80 mm. A blurred view showing Loch running from the camera between two tents at Sidi Gabr, near Alexandria. Loch is also a possible candidate for photographer of this album.

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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Foreign Office Prints, 1882 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/28/1
Scope and Contents F.O. Print. Summary by Lord Tenterden of the History of the Administration of Egypt, 1840-81F.O. Print. Report of the Committee… on the Administration of Egypt, 4 Nov. 1882Admiralty telegrams re the Soudan, 5 -7 Feb. 1884F.O. Section Prints re Alexandria Board of Health and Roman Sanitary Conference, Apr. - May 1885F.O. Section Prints re Red Sea and Somali Coast, Jan. - May 1885F.O. Section Prints re Suez Canal International Commission, Nov. 1882 and...
Dates: 1882 - 1885
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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Foreign Office Prints, 1882 - 1883

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/28/2
Scope and Contents

F.O. Section Prints re Egypt, 6 Jun. - 10 Aug. 1882

F.O. Paper re Egypt, 1882

F.O. Section Prints re Egypt Reorganization, Nov. 1882 - Apr. 1883



Dates: 1882 - 1883
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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Foreign Office Prints, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/28/3
Scope and Contents F.O. Paper - Analysis of Parliamentary Papers respecting Egypt, 1 Jun. - 30 Jun. 1882F.O. Section Prints re Egypt 21 May - 24 Jun. 1882 Admiralty Paper re Egyptian Affairs, 1882F.O. Section Prints re Egypt, 28 Jan. - 21 Mar. 1882F.O. Section Prints re Egypt, 22 Mar. - 20 May 1882Daily Prints of F.O. Telegrams, 4 - 7 Apr. 1882Daily Prints of F.O. Telegrams, Jan. 1882F.O. Section Print re Egypt 21 May - 24 Jun....
Dates: 1882
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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Foreign Office Prints, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/28/4
Scope and Contents

F.O. Prints re Egypt Judicial Reforms, Jun. 1883 - Nov. 1884

Daily Prints of F.O. Telegrams, Feb. - Mar., Apr. [part], May-July, 1882

F.O. Paper re Egypt, 1882



Dates: 1882
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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Foreign Office Prints, 1882 - 1885

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/28/5
Scope and Contents

Daily Prints of F.O. Telegrams, Aug. 1882

F.O. Telegrams and some Section Prints, 1 Jan. - 21 Jun. 1885

F.O. Print. Affairs of Central Asia, 20 Jan. - 31 Aug. 1883



Dates: 1882 - 1885
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).