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Aswan Dam Photographs
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Description

Set of 72 loose photographs removed from a bound album with disintegrating bindings. All photographs are by D.S. George.

Album title devised by cataloger. Photograph titles and dates transcribed from items. Photographs are numbered 759-837; numbers 771, 785, 792, 795, 798, and 813 are missing.

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Date

1911-1912

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.

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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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