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Nile Reservoirs: views of Assuan, no. 2

Description

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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Date

1899-1907

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.

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 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. 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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Assuan [sic] Dam No. 1

Visual Materials

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.

photCL Burndy 1

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Assuan [sic] Dam No. 2

Visual Materials

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.

photCL Burndy 1

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Nile Reservoir works at Aswan and Asyut

Visual Materials

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.

photCL Burndy 1

Nile Reservoirs: views of Assuan, no. 2

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