[Unidentified Dock.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
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Genre: Landscape Photography View along the side of a dock with a row of moored vessels, a wooden gangplank is in the foreground. Photoglyphic engraving. Image size 57 x 70 mm, press imprint size 86 x 122 mm, paper size 107 x 125 mm.
[Unidentified Dock.] Photographer: Talbot, William Henry Fox
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View along the side of a dock with a row of moored vessels, a wooden gangplank is in the foreground. Photoglyphic engraving. Image size 57 x 70 mm, press imprint size 86 x 122 mm, paper size 106 x 125 mm.
The River Taptee, Surat, from Mr. Galway's house, 1857. Photographer: Unknown
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Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Tapti towards Surat Castle, with local craft moored in the foreground. The 'Bombay Almanac and Directory' for 1857 identifies William Galway as an engineer with the Baroda Railway Company, resident at Surat.
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the Nile riverbank at Aswan, with local craft beached in the foreground: 'The view is taken from the top of the hills opposite to Elephantine, but looking north. The town lies almost hid in a luxuriant grove of date palms; a long line of native tr...
Pharoah's Bed, Island of Philae. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith E. No. 27' in the negative. Genre: Archaeological Photography View from the riverbank, looking in a south-easterly direction towards the Kiosk of Trajan, the hypaethral temple more commonly known in the 19th century as Pharoah's Bed, with a boat moored at the riversi...
Traveller's boat at Ibrim [titlepage]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
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Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View from the bank of the Nile at Qasr Ibrim, looking across the river towards the hill fort on the far side, with a feluccah moored in the foreground.
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of a man seated on a donkey cart: 'John Walker, commonly known as 'Black Jack,' or 'Darkie,' is one of the army of licensed hawkers who supply the daily wants of the Metropolitan poor...' Smith's text, much of it reproduced as Walker's verbat...
Genre: Portrait Photography (generic types) Portrait of two men, posed at the rear of a horse-drawn omnibus. The figure on the left is, 'William Parragreen, known as 'Cast-iron Billy',' a driver since 1834 and now at the end of his employment with the London General Omnibus Company.