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190 x 60 mm. (Two images joined). View of Sawakin Island.

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60 x 60 mm. View of an empty street where the buildings are punctuated by shuttered windows covered with mashra-biyyahs (screens with geometric patterns).

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115 x 85 mm. Showing a man at the waters edge with a wooden trolley. There are many cats in a line near him.

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85 x 105 mm. View of an empty street where the buildings are punctuated by shuttered windows covered with mashra-biyyahs (screens with geometric patterns).

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65 x 105 mm. View of buildings punctuated by shuttered windows covered with mashra-biyyahs (screens with geometric patterns).

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210 x 65 mm. A view of Sawakin from the sea.

Scope and Contents Album of albumen prints lettered on the cover 'Photographs taken by the Royal Engineers with the Suakin Field Force 1885'. It contains photographs taken by engineer photographers during the campaign of 1885 and shows the coral architecture of the town of Suakin, portraits of the General's staff, Indian troops and lancers, and the ill-fated Suakin-Berber Railway (abandoned on Wolseley's orders, who dubbed it the line 'from nowhere to nowhere'). The photographs are captioned. The captions...

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Black and white photographs of Hebbert and his family and friends, native people, buildings and scenery. Three are also a small number of photographs, and postcards, taken in Europe. There is a mistake in the original numbering of the photographs, which has not been corrected here, so that images which should be numbered 389-398, and 484, do not exist.

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300 x 95 mm. (Two images joined). General view.

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65 x 110 mm. Showing a stone monument.

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201 x 155 mm. A view from a hillside overlooking the camp with men drawing water from wells in the foreground. Tambuk, five miles west of Otao, was occupied in advance of the railhead (which never reached Tambuk) by the Scots Guards and a company of the engineers, on 19 Apr. 1885. Little action was seen there.

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207 x 157 mm. A view of the camp showing mounted troops and a camel in the foreground, with seated transport camels and tents beyond.

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110 x 120 mm. Showing eight men mounted on camels in a line.

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115 x 120 mm. Showing a large quadrangular building which has a spacious court in the middle, for putting up caravans.

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105 x 175 mm. View of the steps leading to the front door. The Muhafisa was an eighteenth-century house and headquarters of Generals Charles Gordon and Horatio Kitchener during the Mahdist Revolt 1870 - 1899.

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140 x 90 mm. An eighteenth-century house and headquarters of Generals Charles Gordon and Horatio Kitchener during the Mahdist Revolt 1870 - 1899.

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115 x 125 mm. An eighteenth-century house and headquarters of Generals Charles Gordon and Horatio Kitchener during the Mahdist Revolt 1870 - 1899.

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201 x 156 mm. A view looking towards the waterfront houses of Suakin Island with steamers moored near the shore.

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205 x 153 mm. A view looking down on the transport lines where a number of camels and their drivers are seated in an open square. Beyond the lines is the mainland suburb of El Geif with the Caravanserai (see Y3042A/55) and part of Suakin Island visible in the distance.

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200 x 155 mm. A group of 13 transport officers. Captain (later Lord) F.D. Lugard, who served in the campaign as second in command to J. Willcocks (who was in charge of the mule corps of the Indian contingent) is second from the left in the back row.

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80 x 75 mm. A horse led by a man carrying two polo sticks.

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110 x 120 mm. Showing four men stood in a line. There are a crowd of spectators behind them.

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65 x 110 mm. Showing two girls, posed for the camera, hand on hip, the elder wearing a grass skirt.

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204 x 150 mm. A view showing the front façade of the Wakkala or Caravanserai at Suakin, built by Shennawi Bey and completed in 1881. The building is situated on the mainland section of the town (El Geif) beside Gordon’s Causeway.

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207 x 155 mm. A view from just inside the Causeway Gate on Suakin Island. On the left of the print is the Gate itself, built by Charles Gordon, along with the Causeway itself, in 1877 (the gate collapsed around 1970); in the centre of the print stands the Causeway Guardhouse.