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Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(8)
Title:: Japurá (rive gauche). Grande rivière, venant de la Nouvelle Granade; avec un bateau chargé de ce pays, en route depuis 12 mois pour se rendre à Coari; y vendre ses produits et remonter ensuite l'Iça pour s'en retourner. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Close view of a covered trading canoe on the Japurá river, paddled by Indians and with the overseer standing amidships. The Japurá rises in Colombia and flows eastwards to join the Solimões (Amazon) above Tefé.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(9)
Title:: Manáos. Le port. 8me. station de la Compagnie. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the bank of the Rio Negro towards the houses of Manaus, with small craft moored along the riverbank. Manaus is situated just above the confluence of the Rio Negro and the Amazon.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(12)
Title:: Bateliers Boliviens, s'embarquant dans le port de Manáos. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Riverside scene at Manaus, showing Bolivian boatmen and their families climbing aboard a large wooden canoe drawn up beside the bank of the Rio Negro.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(15)
Title:: [Photographic copy of illustrations of Indian boats from the Rio Madeira, Brazil.] Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: Genre: Ethnographical Photography Photographic copy of a page of (?)watercolour illustrations from an undated report of an ethnographic and archaeological expedition to the Rio Madeira. See note at print 14.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1869
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1783.cc.20(50)
Title:: Tarumá. Confluent du Rio Negro, avec le canot du photographe. Photographer: Frisch, Albert
Scope & Content:: View showing Frisch's boat moored near his campsite on the bank of the Rio Negro at Tarumá, in the area of the confluence with the Amazon, near Manaus. The bearded European figure seated in the stern of the boat is presumably Frisch himself.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.10(9)
Title:: Raft of inflated skins. Photographer: Egerton, Philip Henry
Scope & Content:: Genre: Portrait Photography Portrait of a boatman, seated with inflated buffalo skins or 'mussocks,' beside the river (presumably the Beas).
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1863
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(9)
Title:: Ruins at Manassas. March, 1862. Photographer: Barnard and Gibson
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View of railway remains at Manassas Junction after the Confederate retreat: 'Everything was destroyed, except half a dozen cars … The old wooden turn-table was uninjured, and is a fair sample of the old fashioned equipage of the Orange and Alexandria Road, at this period....
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Mar 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(10)
Title:: Ruins at Manassas Junction. March, 1862. Photographer: Barnard and Gibson
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View looking over the railway junction, with a group of soldiers posed casually for the photographer in the right foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Mar 1862
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(26)
Title:: Meeting of the Shenandoah and Potomac, at Harper's Ferry. July, 1865. Photographer: Gardner, James
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View looking towards the confluence of the two rivers, with houses of the town in the foreground and the railway bridge across the river beyond.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Jul 1865
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 1784.a.13, 1(30)
Title:: Fredericksburg, Va. February, 1863. Photographer: O'Sullivan, Timothy H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: War Photography View looking across the Rappahannock River towards the city, with the piers of the destroyed railway bridge in the middleground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Feb 1863
Extent:: 1 item

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