Wady Mukatteb from the camp. Photographer: McDonald, James
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the course of the wadi towards the mountains, with three Arab figures seated in the foreground. For another copy of this photograph, see duplicate set at shelfmark 1787.d.13.
Rocks in Wady Mukatteb. Photographer: McDonald, James
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Genre: Landscape Photography Study of boulders beside the sandy bed of the wadi, with a European figure seated among them in the foreground. For another copy of this photograph, see duplicate set at shelfmark 1787.d.13.
Magharah, turquoise mines in Wady Igna. Photographer: McDonald, James
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the bed of the wadi towards the hillside beyond, in which the mine borings can be discerned. For another copy of this photograph, see duplicate set at shelfmark 1787.d.13.
Magharah, Wady Igna. Photographer: McDonald, James
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the bed of the wadi, with the shaley hillside mined for turquoise in ancient Egptian times rising on either side. For another copy of this photograph, see duplicate set at shelfmark 1787.d.13.
[Prints 59-60. Panoramic view of] Magh Arah. Photographer: McDonald, James
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Genre: Landscape Photography Left-hand section of a two panoramic view, looking along the bed of the wadi towards a shale outcrop. For another copy of this photograph, see duplicate set at shelfmark 1787.d.13.
[Prints 59-60. Panoramic view of] Magh Arah. Photographer: McDonald, James
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Genre: Landscape Photography Right-hand section of a two panoramic view, looking along the bed of the wadi towards a shale outcrop. For another copy of this photograph, see duplicate set at shelfmark 1787.d.13.
Ayún Músa (Well of Moses). Photographer: McDonald, James
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Genre: Landscape Photography Duplicate of the titlepage photograph, also seen in vols. 1 and 3, showing a group of the survey party posed beside one of the springs at Uyun Musa (Wells of Moses) at the beginning of the expedition. See also duplicate set at shelfmark 1787.d.13.
Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai. Made with the sanction of the Right Hon: Sir John Pakington, Bart; Secretary of State for War. By Captains C. W. Wilson, and H. S. Palmer, R.E. Under the direction of Colonel Sir Henry James, R.E: F.R.S. etc. Director-General of the Ordnance Survey. [Part III. Photographs. Volume III.] Photographer(s): McDonald, James
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Imprint: Published by Authority of the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty’s Treasury. Ordnance Survey Office. Southampton. MDCCCLXIX [1869]. Folio, Blue buckram volume (modern binding) measuring 481 x 330mm, with printed titlepage (with mounted print), sheet with letterpress list of captions, ...
Members of the Survey. Photographer: McDonald, James
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Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of members of the survey party, photographed in front of palms, probably at Uyun Musa at the start of the expedition. A numbered key beneath the images identifies the sitters as (back row, left to right): Hassan (guide), Salem (guide), the oriental sch...
Wády Igná, the Maghárah or turquoise mines. Photographer: McDonald, James
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the bed of the wadi towards the shaley hillside of the turquoise mines, with an Arab group posed in foreground.