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Container Reference (shelfmark) 1787.d.13, 2 Language Not applicable Subject Ordnance Survey of Sinai, 1868-69

1. 1787.d.13, 2(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(1)
Title:
Members of the Sinai Survey. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of members of the survey party, posed in front of a tent, probably at Uyun Musa. A key beneath the print identifies the sitters. Seated in the back row, left to right, are: Captain (later Major General) Henry Spencer Palmer, Salvo the cook, Rev. Freder...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

2. 1787.d.13, 2(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(2)
Title:
Non-commissioned officers of the Royal Engineers on the Sinai Survey. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of Sappers N.C.O.s who carried out the survey work of the expedition, photographed at Uyun Musa (Well of Moses) near the start of the trip down to Sinai. This portrait also appears as print 2 in the first volume of photographs. A numbered key beneath t...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
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Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

3. 1787.d.13, 2(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(3)
Title:
Group of Bedawin. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Ethnographical Photography Group of Bedouin men, photographed on the hillside at St Catherine's Convent. A similar group, photographed at the same location, can be found in volume 1, print 26. For another copy of this photograph, see the duplicate set (with the two additional volumes of...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

4. 1787.d.13, 2(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(4)
Title:
Hassan el Harbi, guide to Jebel Serbal. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Full-length portrait, seated cross-legged on the ground, of one of the guides of the survey party. For another copy of this photograph, see the duplicate set (with the two additional volumes of photographs) at shelfmark Maps 29.d.28.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
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Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

5. 1787.d.13, 2(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(5)
Title:
Camp in Wady Feiran. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of tents pitched at Wadi Feiran, with hillside behind. For another copy of this photograph, see the duplicate set (with the two additional volumes of photographs) at shelfmark Maps 29.d.28.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

6. 1787.d.13, 2(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(6)
Title:
Palm grove, Wady Feiran. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography Study of palms in a rocky landscape, with an Arab figure posed in the left foreground. For another copy of this photograph, see the duplicate set (with the two additional volumes of photographs) at shelfmark Maps 29.d.28.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

7. 1787.d.13, 2(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(7)
Title:
Distant view of Jebel Serbal, from the palm grove, Wady Feiran. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the dry bed of the wadi, and across the palm grove towards distant mountains. For another copy of this photograph, see the duplicate set (with the two additional volumes of photographs) at shelfmark Maps 29.d.28.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

8. 1787.d.13, 2(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(8)
Title:
Palm grove, Wady Feiran. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking towards the palm grove at Wadi Feiran, with an Arab figure posed beside the rock face dominating the foreground. For another copy of this photograph, see the duplicate set (with the two additional volumes of photographs) at shelfmark Maps 29.d.28.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

9. 1787.d.13, 2(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(9)
Title:
Arab village and palm grove, Wady Feiran. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the low, rubble masonry houses of the village, towards the palm grove beyond: 'The bed of the valley between the two convents [see prints 10 and 16] is occupied by a fine palm grove, in which are many traces of rude foundations, and the summer ho...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item

10. 1787.d.13, 2(10)

Reference (shelfmark):
1787.d.13, 2(10)
Title:
Ruins of convent in palm grove, Wady Feiran. Photographer: McDonald, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking across the bed of the wadi, towards the ruins of the monastery at the summit of the rocky hill on the far side: 'On the right bank of Wady Feiran, about a mile above the great convent [see print 16], there are the ruins of a smaller one covering the sur...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1868
Extent:
1 item