OPEN TODAY: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.

Tickets

Visual Materials

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
Visual Materials(Opens in new tab)
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.
Restrictions
Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Associated people
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.,
Find out more
View in the Library catalog(Opens in new tab)

You might also be interested in

  • Image not available

    The Isna Barrage

    Visual Materials

    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.

    photCL Burndy 1

  • Image not available

    The Isna Barrage

    Visual Materials

    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

  • Image not available

    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

  • Image not available

    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.

    photCL Burndy 1

  • Image not available

    Nile Reservoirs: views of Assuan, no. 1 [Photographs in volume]

    Visual Materials

    Photograph titles, numbers, and dates chiefly transcribed from handwritten captions or captions in negatives, except for the information for Photographs 22d, 23a, and 23d, which was transcribed from handwritten captions on versos. Titles and dates in square brackets devised by cataloger.

    photCL Burndy 1

  • Image not available

    Second heightening

    Visual Materials

    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