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Assuan [sic] Dam No. 1

Description

This album contains 60 photographs, including ones signed by A. Marques, L. Fiorello, and D.S. George (with some unsigned).

Album title transcribed from handwritten cover title. Primarily, the photograph titles, numbers, and dates are transcribed variously from information written on negatives and handwritten captions in ink and pencil. Dates and titles for unlabeled images devised by cataloger.

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Date

1907-1909

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.

Assuan [sic] Dam No. 2

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This album contains 60 photographs. Album title transcribed from handwritten cover title. Photograph titles, numbers, and dates transcribed from items. Images by A. Marques (pages 1-34), chiefly with photograph numbers and dates written on negatives and handwritten captions in ink; images by L. Fiorello (pages 35-44) and D.S. George (pages 45-61) have captions, photograph numbers, and dates written on negatives.

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Nile Reservoirs: views of Assuan, no. 2

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Set of 98 loose black-and-white photographs removed from album titled "Nile Reservoirs: Views of Assuan, No. 2." Most photographs are signed by D.S. George or L. Fiorello. Album title supplied by cataloger based on original album title. Photograph titles and all dates except 291A-S transcribed from items; dates for 291A-S supplied by cataloger based on years of photographs with similar numbers.

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Nile Reservoirs: views of Assuan, no. 1 [Photographs in box]

Visual Materials

Item numbers for the loose photographs added by library staff. Items no. 1-19 were originally inserted at the beginning of the album. Titles and dates chiefly transcribed from handwritten captions on photograph versos; titles and dates in square brackets devised by cataloger.

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Nile Reservoirs: views of Assuan, no. 1 [Photographs in volume]

Visual Materials

Photograph titles, numbers, and dates chiefly transcribed from handwritten captions or captions in negatives, except for the information for Photographs 22d, 23a, and 23d, which was transcribed from handwritten captions on versos. Titles and dates in square brackets devised by cataloger.

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Aswan Dam. Second heightening

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This album contains 62 photographs. Album title devised by cataloger. Volume spine label: "Aswam Dam 1931 / Photos 388- / [Vol.] 4." Photograph titles, dates, and numbers transcribed from typed titles below images, with some captions handwritten.

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Aswan Dam. Second heightening

Visual Materials

This album contains 57 photographs. Album title devised by cataloger. Volume spine label: "Aswam Dam 1933 / Photos Sept / [Vol.] 11." Photograph titles, dates, and numbers transcribed chiefly from typed titles below images, with some numbers handwritten numbers.

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Assuan [sic] Dam No. 1

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