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Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 270 Collections and/or Records:

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Le batteries du Mex démantalées, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/2
Scope and Contents 263 x 179 mm. A view of the shattered battlements of Fort Mex showing the two ten-inch guns which the bombardment had failed to silence. The gun in the foreground (with 'Mister Lolo' painted on its mounting) has had its muzzle burst by the landing party from 'Invincible' led by Lieutenant Bradford while the further gun seems still to be intact: this would suggest that Fiorillo was present during the raid on the guns, since Archer states that both guns were dealt with in this way (Archer...
Dates: 1882
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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Le Bombardement d'Alexandrie du 11 Juillet 1882, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/1
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264 x 189 mm. A photograph of a painting of the bombardment from the sea, with British ships in the foreground and the smoking town beyond.

Dates: 1882
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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Le Boulevard de Ramleh (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/50
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263 x 197 mm. A view looking over ruined houses and rooftops in the Boulevard de Ramleh. Exact location unknown.

Dates: 1882
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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Le College des Lazaristes (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/46
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262 x 197 mm. A view showing the fire-gutted building of the Lazarist College. The College and Church face onto the Rues des Soeurs.

Dates: 1882
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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Le Consulat Anglais (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/29
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261 x 198 mm. A view looking west along the Rue de l'Obelisque towards the ruins of the English Consulate, with figures standing among the rubble on the roadway.

Dates: 1882
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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Le Consulat de France (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/19
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261 x 197 mm. A view from the Great Square looking towards the ruins of the French Consulate which lies on its northern side.

Dates: 1882
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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Le Consulat de France (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/20
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262 x 198 mm. A view of the ruins of the French Consulate with two men standing beside the rubble in the foreground.

Dates: 1882
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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Le Fort Pharos (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/9
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261 x 199 mm. A view showing the broken and crumbling walls of Fort Pharos.

Dates: 1882
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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Le Mont-de-Piere, Maison Sursok (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/30
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263 x 197 mm. A view looking along a street (exact location unknown) towards the harbour, with largely intact residential houses lining the road. Maison Sursok is in the foreground, a fire-gutted shell outside of which lies mounds of rubble and debris.

Dates: 1882
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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Le nouveau Bazar (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/48
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262 x 199 mm. A view showing the ruins of the New Bazaar. Exact location unknown.

Dates: 1882
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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Le palais de M. le Comte Zizinia (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/22
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262 x 196 mm. A view from the road looking towards the decorated arches and columns of the palace. Exact location unknown, but possibly at the western end of the Boulevard Ismail near L'Okelle Sciorbagi.

Dates: 1882
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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L'Eglise des Lazaristes (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/47
Scope and Contents

261 x 198 mm. A view looking along the gutted interior of the church of the Lazarists.

Dates: 1882
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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Les batteries de Ras-el-Tin démantelées, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/7
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264 x 197 mm. A view looking seawards over the wrecked battlements with overturned cannons, shells and Egyptian corpses lying in the foreground.

Dates: 1882
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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Les batteries de Ras-el-Tin démantelées, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/8
Scope and Contents

261 x 197 mm. A view looking over the battlements towards the Inner Harbour with cannon in the foreground and steam and sailing ships at anchor in the Harbour beyond.

Dates: 1882
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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Les batteries du Fort Ada démantelées, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/12
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262 x 196 mm. A close-up of overturned cannons and mortars lying among the rubble of Fort Ada.

Dates: 1882
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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Les batteries du Fort Pharos démantelées, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/10
Scope and Contents

262 x 199 mm. A view looking down on the battlements of Fort Pharos with cannons and mortars in the foreground. Fort Ada, to the west, can be seen in the distance.

Dates: 1882
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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Les batteries du Fort Pharos démantelées, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/11
Scope and Contents

263 x 197 mm. A view showing the battlements of Fort Pharos. In the background can be seen the breakwater connecting Fort Pharos with the mainland, with part of the town and New Port beyond.

Dates: 1882
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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Les maisons Nubar Pacha et Chiek Ibraim (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/24
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262 x 199 mm. A view looking towards the gutted house of Nubar Pasha on the right with the ruins of the mosque of Sheik Ibrahaïm at the left (with the minaret still standing). A view taken from the Place de la musque du Cheik Ibraïm, first west of the Great Square.

Dates: 1882
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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Les ruines du Phare, 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/6
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262 x 197 mm. A view showing a section of the ruined battlements at Fort Pharos, with mortars standing among the rubble and the base of the lighthouse visible in the background.

Dates: 1882
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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L'Hotel d'Europe (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/25
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261 x 199 mm. A view showing the ruins of the hotel which stood at the western end of the Great Square.

Dates: 1882
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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Lieut. E. Trotter, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/226
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161 x 116 mm. A view showing Lieut. Edward Trotter standing in front of tents at Sidi Gabr, near Alexandria.

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).
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Lieut. F. Hervey-Bathurst, Lieut. Hubert Crichton, Lieut. E. Seymour, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/227
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169 x 95 mm. A view showing three Grenadier officers standing at the entrance to a tent at Sidi Gabr, near Alexandria.

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).
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Lieut J. Chaytor Brinton, 2nd Life Guards, attached to 21st Lancers, leaving Abbasiyeh [i.e.Al `Abbasiyah], Cairo, 1898-07 - 1898-08

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/33
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150 x 137 mm. A rather blurred view showing Lieutenant John Chaytor Brinton talking to, and gesticulating at an unseen person. Brinton, who was severely wounded at Khartoum, went on to serve in South Africa and the Great War.

Dates: 1898-07 - 1898-08
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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Lieut. Sidney Clive, Mess President, 1898

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3042C/225
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160 x 116 mm. A view showing Lieut. (later Lt General Sir) Sidney Clive in the camp at Sidi Gabr, near Alexandira, with soldiers and tents in the background.

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).
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L'Okelle de Mont-Sinaï (ruines), 1882

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Reference Code: GBR/0115/RCS/Y3041A/28
Scope and Contents

262 x 197 mm. A view looking along a street towards the ruined block of buildings. Exact location unknown.

Dates: 1882
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).