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79 x 79 mm. A view showing Neufeld and an unidentified Sudanese prisoner sitting in chains in the prison courtyard at Omdurman. Behind them a building can be seen. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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183 x 106 mm. A view showing Charles Neufeld standing in a doorway in Yakoub's courtyard wearing a white suit belonging to Captain von Tiedemann, the German military attache and observer. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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157 x 107 mm. A view showing Charles Neufeld, his Abyssinian wife Umm es Shole, two children and an unidentified prisoner. See his 'A prisoner of the Khaleefa' for the circumstances of their marriage. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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150 x 130 mm. A view showing Captain (later Brigadier General) William Cavendish on a camel in front of the damaged tomb of the Mahdi. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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78 x 80 mm. A view showing von Tiedemann in full military uniform with plumed hat standing on a jetty on the banks of the Nile. Tiedemann uses a copy of this illustration in his own book (1906) and it is there entitled 'Der Verfasser im Paradeanzug für die Gordonfieir' (the author in full dress uniform for the Gordon ceremony).

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79 x 79 mm. A view showing Ismail Pasha's covered carriage. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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114 x 134 mm. A view showing Neufeld and an unidentified Sudanese prisoner sitting in chains in the prison courtyard at Omdurman. Neufeld was captured by Mahdist forces in 1887 while accompanying a caravan of arms into the Sudan. He remained in prison, often in chains as seen here, until the relief of Omdurman in 1898. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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78 x 79 mm. A view looking along the wide unsurfaced street that leads to the Mahdi's tomb and the Khalifa's house with Sudanese in the foreground and mud houses beyond. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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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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160 x 98 mm. A view showing a dervish corpse near the British lines.

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158 x 125 mm. A view showing Colonel (later Major General) Hatton standing beside a tent in the Omdurman camp, with the Nile in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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95 x 125 mm. Showing Hebbert and Anne in their garden.

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95 x 125 mm. Showing the couple stood in their garden.

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120 x 95 mm. Showing two men stood in Hebbert's garden, identified beneath the print as: Abdel Rahman (cook) and Mohd Suffrage).

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156 x 114 mm. A view looking towards the arches of the palace courtyard with rubble piled high on the ground and Gordon's pool in the foreground. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum'.

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74 x 77 mm. A view showing members of the Baggara tribe under the guard of Sudanese soldiers. Presumably these people are inhabitants of Omdurman rather than members of the Khalifa's army since they are not wearing jibbas. The dome of the Mahdi's tomb can be seen in the background. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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166 x 96 mm. A view showing dervishes at work in the arsenal courtyard under the supervision of Sudanese soldiers. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

Scope and Contents 79 x 79 mm. A view showing the paddle steamer moored off Omdurman. The steamer arrived on September 7 unaware that Omdurman had fallen to Kitchener. On questioning, the dervishes aboard stated that they had been fired on at Fashoda by troops under European command and Kitchener realised that Marchand and his men had reached Fashoda before him. This was the start of the Fashoda Incident which came close to bringing England and France to war and which resulted in the name of Fashoda being...

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155 x 88 mm. A view from the Blue Nile looking towards Gordon's palace on the river bank. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Khartum, September 4th'.

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82 x 70 mm. An uncaptioned print showing an indistinct view looking down on an army unit firing during the battle, with clouds of smoke drifting up from their guns.

Scope and Contents 160 x 89 mm. A view looking out over the battlefield during the second phase, with dervish corpses lying in the foreground. The second phase was a much more hard won affair during which there were many perilous moments, especially when the Khalifa brought up his Black Flag army to strike at Kitchener's right flank as his Green Flag army came down from the hills to the north. The two armies did not coincide and by 11.30 am the remnants of the Khalifa's armies had been driven off to the...

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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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150 x 95 mm. Six women and five men seated together, posing for the camera. The women all wear pinny's which feature an RAF Roundal, or 'bullseye', on the chest.

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80 x 80 mm. A view showing Guiseppe Rognotto ('Beppo') in a courtyard in Omdurman after his release. Rognotto was a colleague of Sister Teresa Gregolini at the mission at Dilling. The photograph is stuck on to an album page entitled 'Omdurman'.

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162 x 118 mm. A view showing three scouts watching the approaching Dervish army through binoculars.