Large folder with note 'Negatives & prints for Egypt Travel Quarterly Magazine'
- Photographs/Allan/B/B10
- File
- 1930–1956 (Circa)
Large folder with note 'Negatives & prints for Egypt Travel Quarterly Magazine'
Large folder with note 'Egypt misc. & military'
Large black file labelled with note 'Negatives misc. (personal & trips) 1930s-1943'
Rolls of b/w negatives.
Note inside 'GW Allan Nile trip Sakkara Memphis ?1930s'.
Note inside cover 'GW Allan western desert 1930s'. Map inside cover labelled 'The Western Desert trip map 2500 km - 14 Oct./24 Oct. 1938'.
Typescript list inside file records contents as follows: The St. Catherin's Basilica incl. all inside chapels, santuary, icones etc.; Other chapels, refectory etc.; New library and Iconoteck (incl. treasures and icones); Mosque; Excursion to Moses Mountain; Excursion to St Catherine Mountain (incl. Farouk's Resthouse etc.); Return trip from St Catherin's Monastery to Oasis Feran; Return trip from Oasis Feran to Suez via Wadi Akhdar, Maggahra, Abu Zenima etc. At head of typescript list is 'Sinai Peninsula. "On the steps of Moses" to St. Catherin's Monastery. (1936 - 1955 - 1956).'
Typescript list inside file records contents as follows: Suez-Moses Springs-Sudr oilfields-Wadi Gharandel-to Abu Zenima; From Abu Zenima to Oasis Feran (via Wadi Feran); Oasis Feran to Wadi St Catherine - Old Abbas II Army baracks; Outside St. Catherin's Monastery incl. gardens and mountains; Inside St. Catherin's Monastery incl. views from walls, passages, monks quarters, their occupations etc. At head of typescript list is 'Sinai Peninsula. "On the steps of Moses" to St. Catherin's Monastery. (1936 - 1955 - 1956).'
Contains 4 small albums: (1) 'Fayoum E.101' on spine, c. 50 negatives, some with prints; (2) 'Mataria Barrage Belbeis wedding E.102' on spine, 'Egypt' on front', c. 80 negatives, some with prints; (3) 'Assnan Philae No. E.109' on spine, c. 60 negatives, some with prints; (4) 'Misc. E.110' on spine, c. 8 negatives with prints.
Contains 7 small albums labelled as follows:
Palestine I (index inside begins 'Trip to Palestine 4 Febr. 22 Febr. 1936')
Jerusalem, Elion Hills, Gorni, Mount of Olives, Palestine (index inside)
Jerusalem, Mos. Omar, Jez. Gard. (index inside)
Jerusal. Bethleh. Haifa. Tiberias (index inside)
Lagin photos
Chateau de la Loire 1937
Australia in 1940 (inside 'Nile - Komombo - Nile Australians in Egypt July/Aug/Sept.')
Small box labelled 'Cairo illumination'. 3 glass and 2 soft negs.
Some loose negs and prints.