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Isna Barrage

Description

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.

Type

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Date

[1907-1908]

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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Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

The Isna Barrage

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This presentation album contains 19 photographs. The title page has the handwritten inscription "M. MacDonald Esq." Photographs are undated and unsigned. 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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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.

photCL Burndy 1

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Assuan [sic] Dam No. 2

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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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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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Aswan Dam. Second heightening

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This album contains 60 photographs with no supplementary texts. (Note: pages 37-38 are blank.) Album title devised by cataloger. Volume spine label: "Aswam Dam 1932 / Photos No. 1026-1163 / [Vol.] 7." Photograph titles, dates, and numbers transcribed chiefly from typed titles below images, with some numbers handwritten numbers.

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Second heightening

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This black photograph album contains 81 unsigned photographs, each with typed photograph numbers, titles, and dates in the print margin. Album title supplied by cataloger; album has handwritten title "Aswan 1930 / 23 to 148 / [Vol.] 1" on spine. Photograph titles and dates transcribed from captions on items.

photCL Burndy 1

Isna Barrage

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