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Egypt

 Subject

Staff Only
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Churches, Monastaries and Abbeys, c 1914

 sub-series
Identifier: Coll-1167/I/4
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: c 1914
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Patrick Geddes Collection / Patrick Geddes in the Middle East

Eric Olof Lundholm

 Fonds
Identifier: Coll-1055
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...
Dates: 1938-1946
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Letter from Daniel Cunningham to James Geikie, describing a trip to Egypt, 1909

 File
Identifier: Coll-11/E15
Scope and Contents

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.

Dates: 1909
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers and correspondence of Daniel John Cunningham / Correspondence to Daniel J. Cunningham

Notebook No.147, 15 June 1846 - July 1846

 Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 6: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/147
Content warning: This Notebook contains a record of Charles Lyell’s return to the UK after his second travel to America (Notebooks 121- 145), and so covers American and UK topics, whilst he is based on London, before travelling to Kinnordy - via Edinburgh, Granton and Craig Crook Castle. Note on pg. 70 indexed as 'Ld Cockburn, Hill's daguerrotype' indicates they visited Bonaly, where the Lyell were photographed. This notebook has a hard light brown cover with red on the spine and in triangles on the corners....
Dates: 15 June 1846 - July 1846
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Charles Lyell / Scientific Notebooks

Oxyrhynchus Papyri collection

 Fonds
Identifier: P.Oxy
Scope and Contents

18 documents, part of a collection distributed round multiple institutions globally.

Dates: 1st - 6th centuries
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections

Section 13: Egypt; Thebes, January 1852

 Series
Identifier: Coll-20/1/13
Scope and Contents From the Series:

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.

Dates: January 1852
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Photographs and Diaries of John Shaw Smith / Photographs