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Booklet entitled 'Suez' containing 12 detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez, the Canal and Port Said. Published by 'Lévy Fils et Cie, Paris'. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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Booklet entitled 'Suez' containing 12 detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez, the Canal and Port Said. Published by 'Lévy Fils et Cie, Paris'. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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Booklet entitled 'Suez' containing 12 detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez, the Canal and Port Said. Published by 'Lévy Fils et Cie, Paris'. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

Scope and Contents From the File:

Booklet entitled 'Suez' containing 12 detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez, the Canal and Port Said. Published by 'Lévy Fils et Cie, Paris'. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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280 x 216 mm. A view showing a steamer proceeding along the Suez Canal, with high banks of sand on either side and a small steam launch moored in the foreground. The meaning of the title has not been fully determined; whether Aglaea is the name of the steamer is unknown. Photograph by Zangakai.

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271 x 215 mm. View looking south over the town and Canal, with docking areas in the background and Lake Menzaleh in the distance. Photograph by Zangaki.

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276 x 214 mm. Showing a camel caravan boarding a ferry somewhere along the route of the Suez Canal. The caption on the print is hard to read and part has been cut off at some stage. Photograph by Zangaki.

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A view looking towards the breakwater on which stands the statue of the builder of the Qanat as-Suways.

Scope and Contents From the Fonds: The collection was originally housed in seven boxes, four of which were specially made with individual slots for slides. These were numbered 3, 6, 10 and 11 and the remaining boxes were unnumbered. Presumably these formed part of a larger collection, but nothing is known of the original owner or the fate of any other boxes. For conservation reasons, the collection has since been re-boxed. The captions given are normally those which appear on the slides themselves. They have been used as...

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Booklet entitled 'Suez' containing 12 detachable monochrome postcards showing views of Suez, the Canal and Port Said. Published by 'Lévy Fils et Cie, Paris'. The postcards are captioned in English on the front and French on the reverse.

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66 x 42 mm. Ships in the canal.

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A view showing a small settlement of wooden huts on the bank of the canal.

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A view showing a palm surrounded house on the bank of the canal with a small wooden jetty in the foreground.

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A view from the Canal showing the Cairo express on the bank.

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A dull view looking over the Al Buhayrah al Murrah al Kubrá and Al Buhayrah al Murrah as Sughrá (salt lakes).

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A view from the canal showing a camel caravan on the bank, with one of the lakes on the canal route in the background.

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A view from the canal showing a camel caravan on the bank, with one of the lakes on the canal route in the background.

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A head-on view of the Japanese steamer in the canal.

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A view from the canal showing stone buildings and elevated water tanks of Al-Isma`iliyah.

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A view showing administrative buildings and a jetty on the canal bank.

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An uninformative slide taken from the ship and showing an undifferentiated blur on the bank of the canal.

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A head-on view of the steam yacht 'Lysistrata' in the canal.

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A blurred slide showing two men in a rowing boat taking the mooring line to the shore.

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A view showing the rowing boat near the banks of the canal with the mooring rope trailing behind her back to the ship.

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85 x 60 mm.