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Egypt (former nation/state/empire)

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 91 Collections and/or Records:

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Egypt: Italian Fleet entering Alexandria, Luigi Cadorna, Vittorio Veneto, Eugenio di Savoia, 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/293-96
Scope and Contents From the File:

Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

Dates: 1944
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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Egypt: Victory Sports Day and Services Club, El Gedida, Heliopolis, Joyce and tea at Yacht Club, Alexandria, 1944 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/280-88
Scope and Contents From the File:

Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

Dates: 1944 - 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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Feluccas on the Nile, 1944 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/28
Scope and Contents

85 x 53 mm

Dates: 1944 - 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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Feluccas on the Nile, 1944 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/30
Scope and Contents

53 x 80 mm

Dates: 1944 - 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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F.O. Section Prints, 1883 - 1885

 File
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 37/28/8
Scope and Contents F.O. Section Prints re West African Conference, May 1884 - Feb 1885 F.O. Section Prints re West Indies and U.S. Trade, Oct 1884 - Feb 1885 F.O. Section Prints re Asiatic Reforms, Apr. 1883 - Apr 1884F.O. Section Prints re Alexandria Riots, Aug. 1883 - May 1885F.O. Section Print re U.S. Fishery Articles, Apr. 1885F.O. Section Prints re Asia, Mar. 1883- Jun. 1885 F.O. Section Prints re Pacific Islands, Jan. - March...
Dates: 1883 - 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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Fresh bread for sale, 1944 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/26
Scope and Contents

53 x 80 mm

Dates: 1944 - 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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Gezireh Palace Hotel, Cairo, 22.2.20, 1920-02-22

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/295
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm.

Dates: 1920-02-22
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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Gossipers, 1944 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/3
Scope and Contents

85 x 53 mm

Dates: 1944 - 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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Group of Egyptian clergy, 1906 - 1938

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/CMS 33/50
Scope and Contents From the Sub-Series:

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

Dates: 1906 - 1938
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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Hall of columns, Karnac, 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/21
Scope and Contents

228 x 160 mm. A view showing the closely built pillars of the great hall at Karnac (the Hypostele Hall of Sethy I and Rameses II) with piles of debris and stone in the foreground. Frith comments of his photograph: 'I am even ashamed of my view, it is so thoroughly inadequate to the subject.'

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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Heliopolis, 23.2.20, 1920

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/273
Scope and Contents

110 x 65 mm. An aerial view of the deserted settlement.

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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Heliopolis [i.e. Misr al Jadidah] - My office, 1927 - 1928

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/5/85
Scope and Contents

65 x 40 mm. A view of a simple long, low brick building.

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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Heliopolis, March 1920, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/294
Scope and Contents

85 x 60 mm. An aerial view.

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).
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Interior court of Medinet Haboo [Habu], Thebes, 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/34
Scope and Contents

232 x 162 mm. A view showing one of the inner temple courtyards with sculptured hieroglyphic inscriptions on the supporting pillars. In the courtyard itself lie fallen columns.

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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Italian fleet in harbour at Alexandria, 1944

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/1/297-98
Scope and Contents From the File:

Photographs are numbered from left to right in vertical columns.

Dates: 1944
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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Live chickens for sale, 1944 - 1945

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 359/2/2/24
Scope and Contents

85 x 53 mm

Dates: 1944 - 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).
 Sub-Series

London to Capetown Flight January 1920, 1920

 Sub-Series
Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/2/67-78
Scope and Contents

A collection of thirteen black and white photographs (one missing from the set) used by the RAF Museum 1971, taken in Aswan (67), Shereik (68-75) and Wadi Halfa (76-78) at the time of the aeroplane crash in 1920.

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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Looking North, 1906-06-09

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/19
Scope and Contents

287 x 231 mm. A view showing labourers at work on a section of the reservoir side of the dam. The work seems to be connected with altering the size of the sluice gates but may be preliminary work on the thickening and heightening of the dam which took place between 1907 and 1912. See also Y3041B/21. Fiorillo, F.

Dates: 1906-06-09
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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Looking north, 1906-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/21
Scope and Contents

A similar view to Y3041B/19 but showing work at a less advanced stage (the masonry wall visible in the foreground of Y3041B/19 has not yet been constructed in this print).

Dates: 1906-05
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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[Looking north, May, 1906], 1906-05

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/22
Scope and Contents

283 x 227 mm. A very dark print showing a similar scene to Y3041B/21, but from a slightly different viewpoint. Photographer unknown, probably F. Fiorillo.

Dates: 1906-05
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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[Navigation Channels, Aswan], 1902 - 1906

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041B/10
Scope and Contents

291 x 242 mm. A view looking along the canal which bypasses the dam towards a set of lockgates. Photographer unknown (George or Fiorillo).

Dates: 1902 - 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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New excavations below the pyramids, 1936

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCS/XII/50
Scope and Contents From the File:

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: 1936
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 Delta from the Pyramid, Mar 1920, 1920-03

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/RCMS 20/2/1/380
Scope and Contents

65 x 45 mm. View form the Pyramid. The shadow from the tip of the pyramid can be seen spreading across the Nile Delta.

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).
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Obelisk and granite Lotus Column, Karnac, 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/27
Scope and Contents

155 x 231 mm. A view showing the obelisk, which is , according to Frith: 'the most beautiful in Egypt', and the broken Lotus Column, which is, again according to Frith: 'an exquisite piece of work', standing among the ruins of Karnac.

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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Osiride Pillars and great fallen Colossus, the Memnonium, Thebes, 1857

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y30214A/17
Scope and Contents

238 x 161 mm. A view showing the row of Osiride pillars with the overturned colossal bust of Rameses II lying face down in the sand. In the foreground stands a group of Europeans, one of whom lies on the shoulders of the Colossus. It was from the Memnonium (more properly the Ramesseum) that Belzoni in 1816 took the other colossal statue, the 'young Memnon', now in the British Museum.

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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