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Photographs of Egypt
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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.
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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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Photographs of plant and seed research in Asia and South America
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Black-and-white photographs documenting agriculture and village life in Asia and South America, including in Mexico, Guatemala, Chile, Peru, Costa Rica, Manchuria, North Korea, China, India, and Siberia. The photographs primarily focus on the relationship between villagers and agriculture and many of the images are related to farming, harvesting, transportation and commerce, as well as landscape views of farms, plantations, and groves, plants and trees, and town streets and buildings, indigenous dwellings, children, and townspeople. Aside from a set of 12 card photographs depicting scenes in Mexico in the late 1880s by photographer A. Briquet, the photographs are various size snapshots depicting: Costa Rica, ca. 1897 (4 photographs); locations in Asia, dating from 1905-1911 (49 photographs); the Sinaloa State in Mexico, 1918 (24 photographs); Peru, 1921 (21 photographs); Chile (66 photographs), 1921; Guatemala and Honduras, ca. 1924 (60 photographs); Saharanpur and Dehradun, India, ca. 1924 (27 photographs). Photographers are primarily unidentified.
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Panoramic photograph
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This collection contains photographs taken or compiled by Philip B. Harris, related to his 42-year career with the Los Angeles Railway and his service as a captain in the U.S. Army Engineers, World War I. The majority of railroad construction scenes are related to the Los Angeles Railway, approximately 1905-1920s. Images include: construction and engineering work on railroads in the Los Angeles area; Harris and other men working on surveying projects, 1902, in Mount Lowe and Garvanza; survey parties in the California Sierras and San Bernardino Mountains. Some images appear to depict the Pacific Electric Railway construction surveying party that Harris was put in charge of soon after he graduated, in 1901. A photograph album, 1901-approximately 1919, includes views of Redondo Beach; personal images of Harris and family members; San Pedro Harbor; and railroad tracks being laid for a streetcar line. Several images show Latino workers digging and laying tracks, approximately 1903. The album has handwritten captions for several photographs, but many scenes are unidentified. The images of World War I France include 52 photographs by Harris, with some commercial photographic postcards. Images show war ruins; decorated graves; battlefields; soldiers; people at train stations; countryside scenes, and a group portrait of Harris and other uniformed soldiers at Roymeaux Field, May 21, 1919. There are also photographic postcards of various tourist scenes in France and war-damaged buildings. Box 3 contains a rolled panoramic photograph of over 100 soldiers, including Harris, of the U.S. Army corps of engineers, 1918, at Fort Harrison, Indiana. The collection also includes a typewritten biographical sketch of Harris and a list of names and addresses of engineers and railroad workers from Harris' address book.
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Photograph album
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This collection contains photographs taken or compiled by Philip B. Harris, related to his 42-year career with the Los Angeles Railway and his service as a captain in the U.S. Army Engineers, World War I. The majority of railroad construction scenes are related to the Los Angeles Railway, approximately 1905-1920s. Images include: construction and engineering work on railroads in the Los Angeles area; Harris and other men working on surveying projects, 1902, in Mount Lowe and Garvanza; survey parties in the California Sierras and San Bernardino Mountains. Some images appear to depict the Pacific Electric Railway construction surveying party that Harris was put in charge of soon after he graduated, in 1901. A photograph album, 1901-approximately 1919, includes views of Redondo Beach; personal images of Harris and family members; San Pedro Harbor; and railroad tracks being laid for a streetcar line. Several images show Latino workers digging and laying tracks, approximately 1903. The album has handwritten captions for several photographs, but many scenes are unidentified. The images of World War I France include 52 photographs by Harris, with some commercial photographic postcards. Images show war ruins; decorated graves; battlefields; soldiers; people at train stations; countryside scenes, and a group portrait of Harris and other uniformed soldiers at Roymeaux Field, May 21, 1919. There are also photographic postcards of various tourist scenes in France and war-damaged buildings. Box 3 contains a rolled panoramic photograph of over 100 soldiers, including Harris, of the U.S. Army corps of engineers, 1918, at Fort Harrison, Indiana. The collection also includes a typewritten biographical sketch of Harris and a list of names and addresses of engineers and railroad workers from Harris' address book.
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Photograph album of Veracruz, Mexico
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An album of 39 photographic postcards of scenes of rural and city life in the state of Veracruz, Mexico, taken by unidentified photographers in the 1930s. The commercially-made images have captions in Spanish etched into the negative, and many have an MF mark for The Mexico Photographic Company. The images include street scenes, outdoor markets, city buildings and bridges, as well as automobile, bus, and train travel. Detailed scenes of rural life include women selling pots or washing clothes at the river, family groups posing in front of their homes, and men in labor activities such as loading lumber onto mules.
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