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Packet containing loose monochrome postcards showing scenes in Khartoum. The packet is 'Set III' of four sets issued by the Sudan Government Railways and Steamers.

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158 x 97 mm. matt print with 63 x 108 mm. negative.

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89 x 62 mm.

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139 x 77 mm.

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110 x 65 mm. An aerial view of the Nile at Asyut.

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95 x 95 mm. View from a high aspect.

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Views of stations, landscapes and people from the train during the journey to Kampala, including Ripon Falls and the River Nile.

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154 x 226 mm. A view looking towards the Nile with the tower of a ruined mosque standing on the banks and balanced in the composition by two palm trees in the foreground. Frith states that there are also huts in the foreground which were: 'composed of Doura straw, and are the temporary portable homes a troupe of Gawazee, or dancing girls.'

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234 x 152 mm. A view showing the temple colonnades at the left of the print with the Nile winding away through a rocky landscape beyond. The island of Philae lies above the Asswan Dam, completed in 1906, and when the sluices were closed, the island was submerged. With the building of the second dam the problem of the survival of the monuments at Philae became acute and a twenty year project to remove the buildings to Agilkia has recently been completed.

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132 x 89 mm. A view looking along the Nile from the palace. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum'.

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77 x 76 mm. A view looking along the Nile from Wad Hamid.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: Two albums with two loose prints (which may not belong to this collection) inserted. The two albums were the property of Charles Edwin Collard, Captain, Royal Marine Light Infantry. The albums have been rebound, but the labels on the covers ‘Uganda 1898-1900’ have been retained. Most of the photographs are 115 x 90 mm. Collard was presumably the photographer except for the few prints in which he appears, and all the photographs are captioned. However, it appears likely that this was...

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78 x 77 mm. An uncaptioned print showing a view from the river looking towards the fort on the shore, with hills beyond.

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175 x 75 mm. General view.

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80 x 55 mm. Showing three men on a boat on the river.

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175 x 75 mm. Showing a village beyond a body of water. There are perhaps fourteen huts in total.

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145 x 115 mm. Showing two huts or shelters, with people stood around them, on the bank of the river.

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90 x 75 mm. Showing a group of men dressed in robes and carrying spears.

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70 x 75 mm. Showing four women all wearing animal skins (cattle hide?). They are stood before a tall fence or partition made of sticks and woven dried grasses.

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115 x 85 mm. A view of four boys or youths stood on the river bank. They each appear to have spears, or sticks.

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278 x 216 mm. A view looking across part of the Nile towards an Arab settlement with a pyramid in the left background. Photograph by Georgiladakis.

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278 x 220 mm. A view looking across part of the Nile towards an Arab settlement with a pyramid in the left background. Photograph by Georgiladakis.

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229 x 167 mm. A view showing a four pillared ruin on the banks of the Nile. Sir G. Wilkinson named the site 'Gertasse', which Frith expounds on in the commentary which accompanies this print.

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65 x 125 mm. Showing a woman stood in front of a hut holding a large cylindrical pot on her head. She wears many bands around her ankles and arms, and material around her hips.