General View from the Lycabettus hill to the Acropolis. -- General View of Athens. -- The Academy. -- The Villa Heinrich Schliemann. -- View of... Show moreGeneral View from the Lycabettus hill to the Acropolis. -- General View of Athens. -- The Academy. -- The Villa Heinrich Schliemann. -- View of the Acropolis. -- View of the Temple and Acropolis. -- View of the Acropolis. -- Dionysos Theatre. -- The Erechtheion Temple. -- Panorama of the Port of Piraeus. -- Greek Sports Stadium. -- Hellenistic Sarcophagus. -- Relief Pallas Athena. -- Statue of Pallas Athena. -- Statue of Hermes, excavated in Andros. -- Statue of Poseidon, excavated in Milo. -- Statue of a Hellenic Woman. -- Statue of a Taurus. -- Three Soldiers in Traditional Costumes. -- Two Farmer Women in Traditional Costumes. -- Two Soldiers in Traditional Costumes. Title and date devised by library staff. Prints have numbers in ink on the mounts. Some have numbers in the negative, few have manuscript titles on the mount. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0053-0131/0157 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i26390383 BIB-ID: 2818062 Show less
Aden. General views. Entrance to the Port. Steamer Point. Market. Barracks. Mosque. Grande Place [sic]. Tanks. Sultan's Palace. British officers.... Show moreAden. General views. Entrance to the Port. Steamer Point. Market. Barracks. Mosque. Grande Place [sic]. Tanks. Sultan's Palace. British officers. Types. Houses. Camel market. Main Pass. Ships. Royal Navy in the Persian Gulf. Suez Canal. England. India. Accompanied by a letter transcribing a text written between 1868/70 related to some photographs taken at that time by Colonel George Napier. The original text was supposedly written by the latter. Title and date devised by Library staff. Photographs ranging from 15 x 21 cm to 21 x 29 cm. The album includes four panoramas, two formed by four photographs (20 x 96 and 18 x 95 cm), and two more composed by two prints (20.5 x 49.5 and 18 x 47.5 cm). Some photographs are dated and captioned on the mount or on the verso. Main Heritage Office General HC.HP.2016.0037 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23119305 BIB-ID: 2450851 Show less
General views. Tanks. Somali hut. Club House. Mosque. Defense guns. Bell batteries. Village of Sheikh Othman. Church. Steamer Point. Aden's garden. ... Show moreGeneral views. Tanks. Somali hut. Club House. Mosque. Defense guns. Bell batteries. Village of Sheikh Othman. Church. Steamer Point. Aden's garden. Title and date devised from Library staff. Prints are numbered in the negative and titled on the mount. The collection contains an autograph letter by Colonel George Napier's family. Photographs are housed in a modern cloth. Main Heritage Office General HC.HP.2016.0078 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23323085 BIB-ID: 2496875 Show less
Francis Frith dominated the photographic publishing industry in England in the late nineteenth century. As a photographer, he is known for the... Show moreFrancis Frith dominated the photographic publishing industry in England in the late nineteenth century. As a photographer, he is known for the hundreds of photographs he made in the Near East. He appears to have learned photography in the early 1850s and in 1853 was one of the founding members of the Liverpool Photographic Society. At age thirty-four Frith retired from his wholesale grocer business in Liverpool, to devote himself to personal interests which included photography. Between 1856 and 1860, he made three expeditions to Egypt, Sinai, Ethiopia, and Jerusalem, photographically documenting Middle Eastern architecture and culture. "On the first, he sailed up the Nile to the Second Cataract, recording the main historic monuments between Cairo and Abu Simbel. On the second, he struck eastwards to Palestine, visiting Jerusalem, Damascus, and other sites associated with the life of Christ. The final expedition was the most ambitious, combining a second visit to the Holy Land with a deeper southward penetration of the Nile. Frith photographed most of the key monuments several times, combining general views with close studies of their significant details and broader views of their landscape environment. Upon his return to London, Frith first published his photographs under the title Egypt and Palestine Photographed and Described, in two volumes with 76 photographs. Various other works followed, including this publication, the 1860 elephant folio edition by Mackenzie with 20 albumen images. This is one of the most renowned 19th-century photobooks and it is the largest book with the biggest, unenlarged prints ever published. Francis Frith ; with descriptions by Mrs. Poole and Reginald Stuart Poole. Title from item, date devised by Library staff. Albumen prints size 48.5 x 39 cm. Several prints are signed and dated iin the negative. Photographs are housed in a contemporary green half morocco with green cloth boards, spine in compartments with raised bands gilt, upper cover titled in gilt letters and gilt edges. Main Heritage Compact General HC.HP.2016.0103 2-D Graphic Item-ID: i23577241 BIB-ID: 2516375 Show less
