Aswan (governorate)
Found in 83 Collections and/or Records:
The Dam. Assouan, 1920
70 x 44 mm.
View from above navigation channel, 1906-05-17
287 x 229 mm. A view looking along part of the northern wall of the dam from the west bank, with the full reservoir in the background and water pouring from the sluices over the newly constructed masonry aprons.
View from above navigation channel, 1902-07-22
291 x 243 mm. A view looking down onto the navigation locks and across the completed dam from the west bank with the as yet empty reservoir at the right. A photograph taken a few months before the official opening. Photographer unknown. (George or Fiorillo).
View from Philae, looking north, 1857
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.
View of Aswan Town, 1890 - 1899
Approximately 220 x 160 mm. Photographer unknown.
View on the Island of Philae, 1857
229 x 152 mm. A view showing part of the temple of Isis and the colonnade leading up to it, with broken rubble and stone in the foreground.
West Bank looking east, 1905-06-07
285 x 228 mm. A view looking along the northern face of the dam showing hundreds of labourers at work on the construction of the masonry aprons below the sluices (see Y3041B/13, 15, 17, and 18).
West Part of Dam looking north, from Coror 22/5/06, 1906-05-22
283 x 230 mm. A distant view of the western section of the dam with the small houses and gardens of Coror in the foreground.