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Aswan Dam Photographs
Series III. First heightening
First heightening

Visual Materials

First heightening

Description

This album contains 53 photographs. All of the photographs are by D.S. George. D.S. George

Album title devised by cataloger. Photograph titles and dates transcribed from items. Photographs contain numbers from 702-836, with gaps. Many of the photographs duplicate those found in Albums 15 and 16.

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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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