Egypt (nation)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 733 Collections and/or Records:
Item
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Mombasa to Mengo
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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).
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Near Port Said, Mar 1920, 1920-03
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/382
Scope and Contents
65 x 60 mm.
Dates:
1920-03
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).
Fonds
Newscuttings on Southern and East Africa
Fonds
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 332
Scope and Contents
Four volumes of newscuttings, three relating to Southern and East Africa and one to the Native Question in South Africa, and loose cuttings on related subjects. Many of the articles concern the activities of the colonial powers in Africa, notably Great Britain, Germany, Spain and France.
Dates:
1883 - 1932
Conditions Governing Access:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Nile Bridge and Dahabieh (Nile boats), 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/395
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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Nile near Korosko, 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/2
Scope and Contents
76 x 51 mm.
Dates:
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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Nile near Korosko, 1928
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/7/3
Scope and Contents
99 x 110 mm.
Dates:
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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Nile near Korosko, 1920
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/3/196
Scope and Contents
70 x 44 mm.
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).
File
No. 1. Cairo to Khartoum, 1928
File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/8/2/1
Scope and Contents
From the Sub-Series:
Photographs and negatives of Eastern and Southern Africa.
Dates:
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Tymms collection on civil aviation
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Photographs
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Africa
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Negatives
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North Side of Dam looking east 23/12/02, 1902-12-23
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/5
Scope and Contents
291 x 241 mm. A view from below the north side of the dam showing a torrent of water pouring from below sluice gates, with two Europeans standing on a rock in the foreground. The figure on the left is probably Captain (later Sir) Henry G. Lyons (1864-1944) Director-General of the Survey of Egypt.
Dates:
1902-12-23
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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North side of dam looking west, 1906-06-10
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/16
Scope and Contents
286 x 321 mm A view showing water pouring through a set of sluices in the dam.
Dates:
1906-06-10
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).
File
Notebook A, J. H. Middleton, Naples 1856, 1856 - Nov. 1899
File
Reference Code: GBR/3437/JHMN/1/1
Scope and Contents
The label on the front board states that this was J. H. Middleton's notebook in 1856. This would have been when JHM was age ten. However, the notebook is filled with copious notes and illustrated when JHM was an adult, starting from age twenty. The notebook is a mix of notes taken from reading upon the subject of Classical art and archaeology, visiting the British Museum, attending lectures such as one on Ephesus at the Royal Institution in 1875, and in situ measured drawings made while...
Dates:
1856 - Nov. 1899
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Nuba Mountains, 1924 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/6/26
Scope and Contents
75 x 170 mm. Showing a woman stood beside a road smoking a pipe.
Dates:
1924 - 1945
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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Nuba Mountains, 1924 - 1945
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 120/1/6/30
Scope and Contents
100 x 190 mm. Showing women with either pots or rope. Scarification marks are visible on two of the women, who also wear necklaces, one with metal bands around her arms and a beaded 'cache-sexe'.
Dates:
1924 - 1945
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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Nubie, Bicharins en voyage, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/26
Scope and Contents
248 x 197 mm. Showing a group of Nubian men mounted on camels, the leader brandishing a spear.
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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Nubie, Bicharins en voyage, 1870 - 1889
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042B/27
Scope and Contents
279 x 213 mm. Duplicate of Y3042B/26.
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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Oasis at Bedrechen's Village, 1890 - 1899
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y304A/393
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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Officers, Lancashire Fusiliers, with red roses, commemorating the battle of Minden, August 1st, in Kasr el Nil Barracks, Cairo, 1898-08-01
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/29
Scope and Contents
161 x 108 mm. A view showing an unidentified group of officers in the barrack square, wearing red roses to commemorate the defeat of the French at Minden on August 1st 1759.
Dates:
1898-08-01
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Khartoum 1898
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Officers of 1st Battn [i.e.Battallion] Kings Royal Rifle Corps Abbassia Barracks Cairo, March 30th 1906, 1906-03-30
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/QM 7/139
Scope and Contents
The Prince and Princess with officers of the 1st Battalion.
Dates:
1906-03-30
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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Officers' Quarters, Assouan [i.e. Aswan], 1898
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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/9
Scope and Contents
78 x 78 mm. An exterior view of the officers' quarters at Aswan, a bungalow with a garden in the foreground.
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).
Found in:
Cambridge University Library
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Khartoum 1898
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[Official Inauguration Ceremony, Aswan Dam, December 10th 1902], 1902-12-10
Item
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/35
Scope and Contents
268 x 223 mm. A view looking down on the Navigation Canal and the western end of the dam, where a large crowd are gathered round the final piece of masonry to be inserted on the dam by the Duchess of Connaught, whose husband had laid the foundation stone on February 12th 1899.
Dates:
1902-12-10
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).