The album collects photographs and correspondence related to the pictures taken in Egypt by the American animal photographer Polly J. Knoll both in 1977 and between 1980 and 1984. In addition to the photographic prints to the 1977 trip, there are 2 1988 letters from the photographer addressed to Jud ...
Title from the item. Date devised by Library staff., Main Heritage Display General, HC.HP.2016.0089-0026, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i23704998, BIB-ID: 2525700
The photograph is titled. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Written on the back of the card "[...] Red Sea. Dec. 1. 28 Dear Miss. Batty, Here I am on my way home and I am the happiest passenger on the boat because every day is lessening the distance between myself and my dearest ones. ...
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 116., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0016, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i2184253x, BIB-ID: 2336477
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 117., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0017, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21842565, BIB-ID: 2336478
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 118., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0018, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21842589, BIB-ID: 2336479
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 119., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0019, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21842607, BIB-ID: 2336480
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 120., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0020, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21842619, BIB-ID: 2336481
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 121., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0021, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21842668, BIB-ID: 2336482
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
Title and date devised by Library staff. Plate number 115., Main Heritage Compact General, HC.HP.2013.0001-0015, 2-D Graphic, Item-ID: i21842528, BIB-ID: 2336476
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 ...
