Subject: Forts and Fortifications - British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue Search Results

Reference (shelfmark):: 9771.h.7(12)
Title:: Vista del Castillo del Morro. (Habana.) Photographer: Varela and Suarez
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the harbour towards the castle and lighthouse.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 9771.h.7(13)
Title:: Vista del Castillo de la Cabaña, Habana. Photographer: Varela and Suarez
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography General view looking across the bay towards the castle.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1872
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10076.i.2, 1(11)
Title:: Channel Squadron Gate, Nicosia. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of the fortified gateway: 'Nicosia, the capital of Cyprus, stands in the centre of the island, on the Plain of Mesorea, four hundred feet above the sea. It is connected with Larnaca by a carriage-road, which has recently been repaired and rendered available...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10076.i.2, 1(17)
Title:: On the ramparts, Nicosia. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Landscape Photography View from the ramparts, looking over the surrounding country, with two men posed in the foreground.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10076.i.2, 1(21)
Title:: Kerynia harbour. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the small harbour, with local craft at their moorings, towards the ramparts of the castle on the far side: 'Kerynia, at one time the capital of a small kingdom, but at present little beyond a village, boasts the only harbour on the nort...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10076.i.2, 2(46)
Title:: Famagosta harbour. Photographer: Thomson, John
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking along the ramparts overlooking the harbour: 'The work of fortifying this stronghold has been carried out with a thoroughness which has defied the inroads of time, so that while the whole town has been laid waste, its outer wall still remains i...
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1878
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10172.d.13, 1(Frontis.)
Title:: No. 64. The Tour du Connetable and ramparts, Vannes. Photographer: Reeve, Lovell Augustus
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Stereoscopic view looking towards the fortified tower and chateau, mounted as the frontispiece to the text of the work. This view is duplicated at print 64 in the set of stereographs accompanying the narrative.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10172.d.13, 2(4)
Title:: Ramparts and Tower of St. Vincent, St. Malo. Photographer: Taylor, H.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography Stereoscopic view looking along the top of the ramparts towards the tower, with shops on the left. For Reeve's description of this photograph, see p. 16 of accompanying text volume.
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: Aug 1858-Sep 1858
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: 10260.f.12(6)
Title:: Ehrenbreitstein. Photographer: Frith, Francis
Scope & Content:: Genre: Urban Topographical Photography Facing p. 10. View looking over the houses of Koblenz, with the fortress of Ehrenbreitstein rising on the right (partially out of the frame).
Collection Area:: Printed Collections
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: c 1864
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Add MS 31980(80)
Title:: [Bodrum Castle.] Photographer: Spackman, Benjamin L.
Scope & Content:: Genre: Architectural Photography View of a corner tower the castle of St Peter at Bodrum, much of whose building material came from the Mausoleum. Photograph uncredited, but probably by Spackman. For a watercolour by Pullan, showing a similar view, see no. 74 (f. 45, bottom).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 1857
Extent:: 1 item

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