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Nile Reservoir works at Aswan and Asyut

Description

This presentation album contains 31 photographs, with an eight-page printed preface by W. E. Garstin, the under secretary of state for public works in Egypt, signed at end, "Cairo, 1902." The front flyleaf has manuscript inscription "W. L. Lowe Brown," the resident engineer at the Asyut Barrage. Identical contents as Album 2.

Album title transcribed from printed cover title. Photograph titles transcribed from printed titles below images. Dates supplied by cataloger based on years of project.

Type
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Date
[1899-1902]
Call number
photCL Burndy 1
Provenance
Burndy Library Collection, Gift of Dibner Family, November 2006. The albums were purchased for the Burndy Library Collection between 1999 and 2001 from book dealers including Marlborough Rare Books, C. J. Dennistoun Rare Books, and Charles B. Wood III Antiquarian Booksellers.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people
Aird, John, (1833-1911,)
Fiorillo, F., (1849-1925,)
Garstin, William, (1866-1957,)
George, D. S., (1866-1957,)
Gianny, A.,
Lowe-Brown, William Lowe,
Macdonald, Murdoch,
Macdonald, Murdoch,
Marques, A.,
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