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Photographs of Egypt

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Description: A collection of 49 commercial photographs with views of Egyptian monuments, ruins, people, and mummies. The photographs mostly show ancient Egyptian temples, pyramids, and other monuments, and were taken in Cairo, Memphis, Abydos, Dendera, Saqqara, Karnak, and Thebes. The set includes four photographs by Emile Brugsch of the mummies of Seti I and Ramesses II. 18 of the photographs were published by the Zangaki Brothers, 3 by G. Sarolides, and 1 each by M. Iranian and Antonio Beato.
Type: Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
Production date: [approximately 1880-approximately 1900]
Call number: photCL 17
Provenance: Gift of Fred W. Harper, 1943.
Dimensions: images various sizes, chiefly 28 x 23 cm, pages 26 x 31 cm

Photographs of Chile and Egypt

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A collection of 32 professional large-format photographs of Egypt and Chile, focusing on tourist scenes in Cairo, Egypt, and Valparaíso, Chile. Images 1-17 show buildings and views of Santiago, Chile, including the Teatro Municipal and Teatro de la Victoria, statues and monuments, the Camara de Diputados, the harbor, houses, and additional scenes. Images 18-32 show Egypt, including a view of the Pyramids at Giza across the flooded Nile, Europeans on a terrace and climbing a pyramid with help from native guides, a few rural scenes with an ox-driven pump and a shadoof, or well pole. There are several street scenes in Cairo including a bazaar, and views of men, women, and children engaged in various activities. Some of the photographs have photograph numbers and/or titles or the "Zangaki" photography studio credit written on the images.

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Abu Simbel

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An appreciation in photograph and word of the Egyptian temples of Ramses II, and a description of the High Dam under construction at Aswan, its economic benefits and its threat to historical and artistic monuments.

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Photographs of family, relatives, and friends

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18 pieces. Chiefly carte-de-visite and card photographs of young women and children, as well as the exterior of "The Adams Place, Bethel, Vermont," a photograph of four women on camels in front of Egyptian pyramids, 1925, and two photographs of the interior of a sitting room with a mural over the fireplace.

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Egypt & Nubia

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Bound set of tinted lithographs by Louis Haghe of paintings and sketches by David Roberts of landscapes, scenes, architecture, and antiquities of Egypt and Nubia, produced between 1846 and 1849 by the publisher F.G. Moon. Each lithograph was printed in two formats: the "standard" version, pressed onto thick paper, using one tint for the Holy Land prints, and up to three tints in the Egypt & Nubia set; and the "deluxe" edition, in which the lithograph was printed onto thin India paper, cut to size, and mounted on thick card stock. In the present "standard" edition, the prints have the lithographer's title directly below, with the print title and Roberts' signature reproduced in facsimile from the artist's sketches in the lower left or right corner. Accompanying description of each of the full folio prints appears on the facing page; description of the half folio prints starts below each print. After arriving in Alexandria, Egypt in September of 1838, Roberts traveled to Cairo and the pyramids at Giza, and then journeyed down the Nile by boat, visiting Dendera, Luxor, to paint the great temple of Karnak, Valley of the Kings, Thebes, Philae, and Abu Simbel.

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One boxed collection of photographic reproductions of an architectural nature

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One boxed collection of photographic reproductions of an architectural nature, ca. 200 pieces, ranging in date from approximately 1935 to 1950. The collection contains images of family dwellings, churches, government buildings, architectural details, stone structures (e.g. Stonehenge and the Egyptian pyramids, the Sphinx), and structures from Antiquity, including early Greek and Roman periods. The collection is comprised primarily of Perry Pictures, University Prints, Brown's Pictures, and postcards. There are an additional few original black and white photographs of front doors to several different houses. This collection was assembled by Mabel Spofford; there are ms. notes on some items. The collection is housed within a paperboard box, addressed to Miss Mabel Spofford from University Prints. Written on the lid, in ms., is: "Architecture: Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Romanesque, Byzantine, Gothic, Renaissance, Modern." Title supplied by cataloger.

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Image of Egyptian Queen Cleopatra reclining on pillows as she watches the arrival of Mark Antony and his soldiers; attendants and a leopard at her side and pyramids in background.

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