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Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4620(10)
Title:: Study of prickly pear orchard and camels, Cairo. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith 150' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography View of a group of baggage camels and keepers in a cactus grove: 'In the outskirts of Cairo, especially on the north, there are large thickets of the cactus which produces the prickly pear. We rarely, however, have s...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wf1/4622(1)
Title:: An encampment in Ethiopia [titlepage]. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Inscription: Signed 'Frith' in the negative. Genre: Landscape Photography Title page illustration, showing a campsite in the northern Sudan, with camels resting in front of a clump of palm trees.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1857
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Wq4/6069(5)
Title:: Black Jack. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: 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...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1876-1877
Extent:: 1 item

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