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A view showing a German liner in the Red Sea near Suez

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Booklet entitled 'Souvenir of Suez' containing detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez and the Canal. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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Booklet entitled 'Souvenir of Suez' containing detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez and the Canal. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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Booklet entitled 'Souvenir of Suez' containing detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez and the Canal. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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Booklet entitled 'Souvenir of Suez' containing detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez and the Canal. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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Booklet entitled 'Souvenir of Suez' containing detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez and the Canal. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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Booklet entitled 'Souvenir of Suez' containing detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez and the Canal. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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Booklet entitled 'Souvenir of Suez' containing detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez and the Canal. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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Booklet entitled 'Souvenir of Suez' containing detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez and the Canal. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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Booklet entitled 'Souvenir of Suez' containing detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez and the Canal. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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241 x 190 mm. Location unidentified.

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230 x 175 mm. Showing Queen Hatshepsut's temple. The coordinates are given as: 45.N.133.P.

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44 x 70 mm.

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85 x 60 mm.

Scope and Contents 232 x 156 mm. A superb landscape showing the rounded forms of granite boulders in the foreground, the Nile beyond the buildings of Philae on the island in the background. Frith himself was well aware of the success of this viewpoint: 'This is one of the few views which a photograph can render without, perhaps, greatly distracting from its artistic frame. Everybody has sketched it - many clever artists have painted it - Murray has engraved it for his 'Guide', and now, in these later days,...

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241 x 193 mm. A view looking down on a section of the Avenue of Sphinxes which leads from the Temple of Mut to the Temple of Amenophis II at Karnac. Erected by Rameses II.

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An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

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An album, labelled on the spine, containing prints of various sizes. The numbering is sequenced from 1 to 131, but 101 is omitted. 14 of these prints are loose (118-131) , and are kept in a separate envelope in the album. Some of the prints are good quality professional work. Some of the photographs are captioned in ink; in other cases the titles have been derived from duplicate copies in Davies' other Indian album or from other photographs of the same scenes.

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226 x 160 mm. A view showing a European and two Arabs standing among the ruins of Kamac in front of the fallen obelisk. IN the background stand the Hall of Columns and another obelisk.

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153 x 113. A view showing soldiers in the Sidi Gabr camp with tents in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'The Grenadiers at Sidi Gabr, near Alexandria'.

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170 x 95 mm. A view showing tents of the Grenadiers at Sidi Gabr with buildings in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'The Grenadiers at Sidi Gabr, near Alexandria'.

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140 x 85 mm. General view.

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273 x 213 mm. View looking towards the Citadel and the Mosque of Mohammed Ali, with the Mameluke Tombs in the foreground.

Scope and Contents 225 x 159 mm. A view looking over a harsh and rocky valley landscape. Frith comments: 'In the view we look down the valley in which the convent stands towards the Plain of Er-Raha. The scene is strangely desolate. In the immediate foreground, up to the convent walls, stretches an arid tract strewn with broken fragments of rock, some of which are of vast size, as we see by comparing them with the little encampment in front. The fortress-like convent rises finely in the distance, and...

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70 x 44 mm.