Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (409) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (409) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0079 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26475017 BIB-ID: 2830177 Show less
Overview of a crowded marketplace. People and donkeys are gathered in a clearing, some carrying large crates with plants in them. Title from item,... Show moreOverview of a crowded marketplace. People and donkeys are gathered in a clearing, some carrying large crates with plants in them. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (93) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0080 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26475030 BIB-ID: 2830178 Show less
Working animals, Plows, Carriages and carts, Agriculture, Camels
A man standing behind a simple wooden plow pulled by two camels. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned,... Show moreA man standing behind a simple wooden plow pulled by two camels. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (406) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." On the verso of the mount is pasted a second albumen print by Gabriel Lékégian ttitled "Mena Coach" numbered 328 and signed "G. Lékégian & Co. Photographer to the British Army of occupation". Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0081 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26475054 BIB-ID: 2830179 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (441) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (441) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0053-0078 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26480931 BIB-ID: 2830455 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (83) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main Heritage... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (83) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main Heritage Display General HC.HP.2016.0053-0075 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26480864 BIB-ID: 2830448 Show less
Collection of Carte de visite with portraits of people from Georgia and the Caucasus. Six photographs are anonymous, five of them are framed in red... Show moreCollection of Carte de visite with portraits of people from Georgia and the Caucasus. Six photographs are anonymous, five of them are framed in red and titled "Visites". One photograph by the Georgian-Armenian pioneer photographer Vladimir Barkanov, with his studio stamp on the back of the print. One picture from the Studio Orlay de Karwa with its stamp on the verso of the print. Four photographs by Dimitri Ermakov with embossed seal and inventory numbers (80, 207, 168, and 25). Most of the photographs are studio portraits of Georgian men and women in traditional dresses, such as Gurian and Imeretians. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Some prints are numbered, signed and stamped. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0039 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23128239 BIB-ID: 2451002 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (20) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main Heritage... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (20) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0077 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23690094 BIB-ID: 2523615 Show less
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (167) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main... Show moreTitle from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is captioned, numbered (167) and signed "Photo Art. G. Lekegian. &. Co." Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0076 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23690069 BIB-ID: 2523611 Show less
The album collects photographs by the major photographers active in the Middle East at the end of the XIX century. Images include: statues and art... Show moreThe album collects photographs by the major photographers active in the Middle East at the end of the XIX century. Images include: statues and art crafts from the Museum of Gizah; Egyptian antiquities (pyramids, temples, hieroglyphics); Islamic architectures in Cairo (tombs, the Citadel, mosques and mashrabiyas); views of the streets of Cairo (hotels and bazaars); staged portraits of local people (artisans, women, peasants and musicians); the Nile river with traditional boats and ports. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Album with vellum-bound, in golden letter and ornaments. The album consists of 24 pages. Prints are pasted on both sides. On the paste-down there is a scratched ex libris "Metropolitan Museum of Art. [illegible] of the Costume Institute. [illegible] Art Worker's Club". Manuscript note "Sold and discarted in 1960s). Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0096 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26485229 BIB-ID: 2830659 Show less
Two men drinking at a public fountain in Egypt. The photograph is titled and signed in the negative. Date devised by Library staff. Main Heritage... Show moreTwo men drinking at a public fountain in Egypt. The photograph is titled and signed in the negative. Date devised by Library staff. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0046 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24447304 BIB-ID: 2537229 "Henri Béchard operated a photographic studio in Cairo in the Ezbekiah Garden district from which he sold rather standard tourist views, as well as a series of types and costume studies. In 1888 he published with A. Palmiere, a set of photogravures, “L'Égypte et la Nubie.” [...] Béchard had the photographic concession at the Cairo antiquities museum and produced the handsome Album du Musée Boulaq: Photographie par Délié et Béchard, avec texte explicatif par Auguste Marriette Bey (Cairo, 1872). The partnership was dissolved sometime after publication and both continued to work in Egypt as commercial photographers. Both received medals at the 1878 Paris Universal Exposition". Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography / John Hannavy ed., Routledge, New York, 2008, p. 131. Show less
Crocodile hunting, Crocodile hunting--Egypt--Photographs, People
The photograph shows an European on a crocodile hunt with five African helpers. The photographs is signed, numbered (479) and titled in the negative. ... Show moreThe photograph shows an European on a crocodile hunt with five African helpers. The photographs is signed, numbered (479) and titled in the negative. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2017.0047 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i24447316 BIB-ID: 2537230 "The Zangaki brothers produced some of the finest images of late Victorian Egypt, yet so little is known about them. They were probably Greek Cypriots, although it has been suggested they may have come from Crete. Nothing is known of them before their first photographs were published in Egypt in the late 1870s, and even the names of the brothers themselves is unknown. It has been suggested their initials were C and G, and indeed early 20th century photographic postcards bearing the name C Zangaki have been located. Their photographs, however, were simply identified as Zangaki, the letter Z being frequently mistaken for a stylized L in several books, resulting in their work being incorrectly ascribed to Langaki. Indeed, until relatively recently, there was assumed to be one photographer with the name of A Zangaki until the discovery of a signboard bearing the legend Adelphoi Zangaki confirmed that the images were the work of brothers. While their GreekCypriot or Cretanroots are confirmed, the horse-drawn darkroom van with which they toured the length of the Nile bore the legend Zangaki Brothers, and to further confuse matters, the majority of their images are titled (in the negatives) in French. Amongst many fine images are photographs taken after the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882, and some eloquent commentaries on the popularity of the Grand Tour of Egypt in the 1880s." See Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography / John Hannavy ed., Routledge, New York, 2008, p. 1521. Show less