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Composite item. Sheet of crumpled paper used as makeshift mount for 6 prints, apparently cut from books. The middle of the sheet has apparently been occupied by a print which has been cut out, leaving a hole (20 x 29 cms). Pencilled note indicates that it was a "View of the Grande Chartreuse before the disolution (sic - dissolution )." There is no other indication of provenance or use, but "Patrick Geddes Centre, Univ. of Edinburgh" is stamped on the back, bottom left hand corner.

Scope and Contents The collection is composed of black and white photographs taken in the 1940s, largely of archaeological sites in the Greece and the Middle East (Iraq, Iran, Egypt, Libya, Israel, Lebanon) but also of camps of the Royal Engineers in oil and water operations during the Second World War, and a selection of guide-books to the areas visited. The guide-books are these: Iraq: for issue to Officers...

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Letter from Daniel Cunningham to James Geikie, decribing a trip to Egypt (taken in the hope it would restore his health) and enclosing 4 photographs of himself at the pyramids.

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This series consists of five boxes of photographs showing scenes of Ireland, Paris, Switzerland, Rome, Pompei, Athens, Istanbul, Jerusalem, Cairo, Thebes, Abu Simbel, Nubia, Petra, and more.