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Nile Reservoir works at Aswan and Asyut

Description

This presentation album has 31 black-and-white photographs, with eight introductory pages of explanatory notes by W. E. Garstin, the under secretary of state for public works in Egypt, signed "Cairo, 1902." Photographs are signed by D.S. George. Flyleaf has bookplate inscribed to John Aird: "A Monsier J. Aird Souvenir de l'Inauguration des Résevoirs du Nil. De la part du Ministre des Travaux Publics." Identical contents as Album 1.

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

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Date

[1899-1902]

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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.

Nile Reservoir works at Aswan and Asyut

Visual Materials

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.

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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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The Heightening of the Aswan Dam

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This presentation album contains 21 photographs, and five additional loose prints, with a two-page printed preface. Most photographs are signed by D.S. George. Contains the bookplate of the Egyptian Government inscribed "Inauguration of the Heightening of the Assuan Dam. Dec. 23 1912, presented to Sir John Aird Bart" on the inside front cover. Album title transcribed from cover title. Photograph titles transcribed from printed captions pasted on pages; photographs are unnumbered and undated; dates supplied by cataloger based on album title.

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The Heightening of the Aswan Dam

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This presentation album contains 20 photographs, with a two-page printed preface. Most photographs are signed by D.S. George. Album is similar to Album 8, but lacking bookplate and final image of opening ceremony. Album title transcribed from cover title. Photograph titles transcribed from printed captions pasted on pages; photographs are unnumbered and undated; dates supplied by cataloger based on album title.

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O.H.E.M.S. Aswan Dam second heightening

Visual Materials

This red leather-bound presentation album contains 31 photographs. Photographs are unsigned except for the photograph on page 11, which has an illegible signature possibly "Hilessy 1932." Album title transcribed from cover title written in gold lettering in Arabic and English. Photograph titles transcribed from printed captions titles; dates supplied by cataloger based on years of second heightening.

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Nile Reservoirs: views of Assuan, no. 1

Visual Materials

This album originally contained approximately 207 photographs, though 29 photographs are now housed in a box identified as Album 3a. The remaining 177 photographs still in the original album (Album 3b) are typically affixed two to a page, with some panoramas comprised of several taped together photographs. Some of the photographs are by D.S. George, "DM," and Achille Gianny. Album title transcribed from cover.

photCL Burndy 1

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