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The Isna Barrage
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The Isna Barrage
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This presentation album contains 18 photographs. The title page has the handwritten inscription "Sir John Aird." Photographs are undated and unsigned. The album is similar to Album 5, but without a final image of the final stone laying ceremony. Album title transcribed from printed title page. Photograph titles transcribed from printed captions on pages; dates supplied by cataloger based on years of project.
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Isna Barrage
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This album contains 60 unsigned photographs. Some consist of multiple images taped together to create panoramas. Album title transcribed from handwritten title on album cover. Photograph titles in square brackets supplied by cataloger; photograph titles for pages 10-13 transcribed from handwritten title and dates on page margins, pages 14-58 from titles on images.
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O.H.E.M.S. Aswan Dam second heightening
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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 Reservoir works at Aswan and Asyut
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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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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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Isna Barrage. Upstream, looking West
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The Aswan Dam Photographs collection contains 28 albums containing more than 1750 black-and-white photographs (most approximately 8 x 10 in. format), documenting the construction of the first Aswan Dam and Asyut Barrage from 1899 to 1902, the first dam heightening from 1907 to 1912, the Isna Barrage from 1907 to 1909, and the second heightening from 1930 to 1933. The images chiefly chronicle progress at the construction sites and depict laborers, masonry work, excavating, the transportation of materials and equipment, and the building of the locks, buttresses, gates, canals, and bridges, with many views of the Nile River. In addition there are images of repairs to the temple at Philae (in Albums 1, 3b, 4, and 12), and some photographs of ceremonies including the H.R.H. The Duke of Connaught laying the foundation stone on February 29, 1908 (Album 10, pages 8-9), and the laying of the final stone with Abbas II Hilmi, the Khedive of Egypt, on February 9, 1909 (Album 5, page 24).The collection consists of both nondescript albums with affixed photographs accompanied by typed or handwritten captions, as well as more formal presentation albums, which include inscriptions of W. L. Lowe Brown, resident engineer at the Asyut Barrage (Album 1); John Aird, whose company constructed the dam (Albums 2, 6, and 8) Murdoch MacDonald, chief engineer beginning in 1902 (Album 3); While most of the albums are limited to photographs and captions, Album 1 and 2 have an eight-page printed preface by William E. Garstin and Albums 5 and 6 have two introductory pages of printed explanatory notes by Murdoch MacDonald. Photographers engaged in documenting the construction and heightening projects were D.S. George (construction of the Aswan Dam and first heightening), F. Fiorillo (first heightening), A. Gianny (viewing of Aswan Dam), A. Marques (first heightening), and other unidentified photographers. Within the materials, there are variant spellings of Aswan including Assuan and Asswan.
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