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A loose stamped postcard captioned on the picture in both English and French. On the reverse is a brief note signed 'H.D.'.

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241 x 192 mm. A view showing a Bedouin Muslim kneeling in the sand at Giza with the Sphinx and Pyramids of Giza in the background.

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218 x 279 mm. A head-on view of the Sphynx at Giza with pyramids in the background. The sphynx is a likeness of King Chephren. Photograph by Zangaki.

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Loose monochrome postcards showing views in and around Cairo. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo.

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Loose monochrome postcards showing views in and around Cairo. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo.

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Loose monochrome postcards showing views in and around Cairo. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo.

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Loose monochrome postcards showing views in and around Cairo. Published by the Cairo Postcard Trust, Cairo.

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66 x 44 mm.

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A view showing W.D. on the deck of the 'Indraghiri' looking through a telescope towards Gebel Musa (not visible).

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280 x 217 mm. A view showing a three quarters profile of the Sphinx with the great Pyramid in the background. An Arab stands on the head of the Sphinx. Photograph by Georgiladakis.

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279 x 218 mm. General view of the Sphinx with the pyramid of Cheffren in the background. The caption on the print is hard to read. Photograph by Zangaki.

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67 x 44 mm.

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227 x 160 mm. A view looking across the rocky plain of Er-Raha towards the triple summits of Mount Horeb.

Scope and Contents 227 x 159 mm. A view from the north looking towards the rocky summit of Mount Serbal, with a valley floor and a gnarled tree which, according to Frith 'gives such great vigour to the picture' in the foreground. He continues, in his commentary: 'Nature is here stripped of the beautiful colours and forms that elsewhere vary her surface, and reduced to the above conditions of her older state. This naked simplicity, apart from the effect of lofty mountains and majestic forms, and of the pure...

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280 x 223 mm. A professional photograph bearing a caption in French and the name 'H Arnoux' which possibly relates to the photographer. The album page bears the caption 'The pyramids'.

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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125 x 80 mm.

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230 x 170 mm. Aerial view. Presumably this is the Step Pyramid of Djoser (i.e. Zoser), built at Saqqara, located about 15 kilometres from Giza.

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65 x 110 mm.

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90 x 65 mm. Showing five people, including Tymms, with a pyramid behind them.

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263 x 222 mm. General view of the Great Pyramid. Photograph by Zangaki.

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279 x 218 mm. A view near the banks of the Nile with mud banks and water in the foreground and a group of Arabs with their camels in front of groves of palm trees beyond. With pyramids in the background. Photograph by Georgiladakis.

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...

Scope and Contents From the File: Contains prints approximately 50 x 80 mm to 290 x 249 mm. Captions are handwritten by the Prince of Wales. This records the rest of visit to India of the Prince of Wales (later King George V) and Princess Mary. Subjects include: visits to Aden, Cairo, and Corfu on the return journey to the U.K., with arrival in London on May 8, 1906. Appended are photographs taken during the visit by the Prince and Princess of Wales to Madrid for the wedding of King Alfonso XIII and Queen Ena (May 31,...