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Archive Reference (shelfmark) 1786.b.33, 1

1. 1786.b.33, 1

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1
Title:
Photographic views taken in Egypt, by James Douglas M.D. and James Douglas Jnr. [authors' names inserted by hand] during the winter, 1860-1. Photographer(s): Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Imprint: Glenalla [Quebec], January,1862. Folio, half-leather with red cloth boards, measuring 420 x 380 mm; two volumes bound in one; 49 pp., 35 pp; prints mounted one to a page (verso only), with a single leaf of letterpress description accompanying each image. It is not known how many copie...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
49 items

2. 1786.b.33, 1(1)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(1)
Title:
[Titlepage: group portrait of the Douglas family.] Photographer: Unknown
Scope & Content:
Genre: Portrait Photography Group portrait of three figures, seated at a small table on which stands a number of Egyptian artefacts. Seated centre is an elderly white haired man (Dr James Douglas), flanked on the left by his son (also James Douglas) and on the right by the latter's wife Naomi, ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
c 1861
Extent:
1 item

3. 1786.b.33, 1(2)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(2)
Title:
Our Nile boat or Dahabieh. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of the lateen-rigged boat moored on the Nile, 'As it lay becalmed, near Kom Ombos, with a few native mud huts on a strip of cultivated land on the west bank of the river, and the Desert and Lybian hills in the background.' The letterpress accompanying the photo...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

4. 1786.b.33, 1(3)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(3)
Title:
Boulak. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Urban Topographical Photography View looking across the river towards waterfront houses at Bulaq, the port of Cairo: 'As may be seen in the photograph, its banks are lined two or three tiers deep by Dahabiehs, Rahlehs, Canjia, and ordinary Arab carrying boats; these make the landing very...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

5. 1786.b.33, 1(4)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(4)
Title:
Bedreshayn. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View of a grove of date palms at El Badrshein, 'the Port or Landing Place on the Nile of the ancient city of Memphis. It is now, however, an ordinary Arab village, in no way distinguished from ordinary Arab villages, except, perhaps, by the extent and beauty of the ...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

6. 1786.b.33, 1(5)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(5)
Title:
Statue of Rameses [at Memphis]. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography Close view of the fallen colossus, lying overturned in the sand outside the southern wall of the Temple of Ptah at Memphis, 'well nigh all that remains of the once gorgeous Temple of Phtah, founded by Menes at Memphis, and embellished by his successors, till it...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

7. 1786.b.33, 1(6)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(6)
Title:
Pyramid of Sakhara. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography General view of the brick-built step pyramid of Dsojer at Saqqara, the principal necropolis of Memphis, 'the 3rd Pyramid of Sakhara, which the photograph represents as seen from the S. W., [and] though by no means imposing externally, is inferior to none, not e...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

8. 1786.b.33, 1(7)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(7)
Title:
The Stone Pyramid of Dashoor. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography General view, showing the north and west sides of the Pyramid of Sneferu at Dahshur, at the southern end of the Memphis necropolis.
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

9. 1786.b.33, 1(8)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(8)
Title:
Minieh. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Landscape Photography View looking along the riverbank at El Minya towards the village, with a local boat beached in the foreground: 'An Arab village on the west bank of the river, about 160 miles above Cairo, is chiefly remarkable for its extensive sugar factory and refinery.'
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item

10. 1786.b.33, 1(9)

Reference (shelfmark):
1786.b.33, 1(9)
Title:
Tombs of Beni Hassan. Photographer: Douglas, James
Scope & Content:
Genre: Archaeological Photography View of columned entrance portico to one of the group of 39 rock-cut tombs of the 11th and 12th dynasties at Beni Hasan esh Shurruq, some 23 kilometres north of El Minya. The graffiti which can be seen on the walls of the tomb are noted in Douglas' accompanying...
Collection Area:
Printed Collections
Languages:
Not applicable
Date Range:
1860-1861
Extent:
1 item