Photograph album documenting the British campaigns in Afghanistan during the so-called Great Game. Most of the photographs portray British troops, officers, camps, views of cities, ruins, pieces of artillery, antiquities, Buddha statues, and landscapes. Most of the photographs were taken by professi ...
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is titled, signed and numbered (202) on the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0109, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24470661, BIB-ID: 2537301
Title from item; date devised by Library staff., Beside the map of the Suez Canal, at the top and at the bottom lines, the print is framed with photographic medallions, portraying personalities such as Ferdinand de Lesseps, Ismail Pacha, Mehmet Ali, Said Pacha and His Highness Tewfik Pacha. Decorati ...
The photograph shows boats on the bankside., Title and date devised by Library staff. The photograph is signed ("H. Arnoux Port Said") and titled (not visible because faded out) in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0086, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24469580, BIB-ID: 2537278
Title and date devised by Library staff. This photograph is the recto of HC.HP.2017.0094. The photo is cropped in an oval shape., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0095, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i24469890, BIB-ID: 2608377
Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is signed, numbered (31) and titled in the negative., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0084, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2446952x, BIB-ID: 2537275
View of the of Port Tewfik in the West of the Suez Canal entrance., Title from item, date devised by Library staff. The photograph is numbered (156), signed and titled in the negative. This photograph is the verso of HC.HP.2017.0095., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2017.0094, 2-D Graphic, Item ...
In this picture the subject is posing for the photographer, looking into the camera., Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 142., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0042, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2195110x, BIB-ID: 2346397
The woman in the photograph could be Gertrude Bell. Soon after obtaining her degree in 1898 she travelled many times in Middle East and the Arabian Peninsula and published her account of those experiences in numerous books. After the eruption of World War I, she was recruited by British Intelligenc ...
Portait of Abdullah bin Hussein, commander of the Arab Eastern Army. He played a key role in the guerrilla revolt, in particular because of the besiege of Taif and Medina and of the sabotage of the Hejaz Railway. He was the ruling Emir of Transjordan under the British Mandate from 1921 to 1946, when ...
