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The catch is labelled 'Desert near Cairo Wadi Natroon Dist. Alexandria Road 1937 ... G.W. Allan'. Inside the cover are attached 10p of typescript entitled 'The desert in bloom'. On the first page is a hand drawn map with small photos attached headed 'The map pf Cairo-Alexandria asphalt road district including Wadi Natroun Monasteries Burg El Arab Mariut - city of Mina and flowers of the desert in the spring'.

Note on the cover reads 'Cairo - El Arish Road 1935-1940'. Hand-drawn map inside front cover showing 'The new asphalt road' between Cairo and Jerusalem. Newspaper cuttings about the road and 138 captioned black and white photos. Also contains two typescripts entitled 'Sinai road construction' (4p) and 'Pioneering in the desert' (3p).

A note inside the cover reads 'Cairo/Dervish Community'

A note inside the cover reads 'Eastern desert, Egypt SS Anthony Paul 1950s'.

A note inside the cover reads 'Nile Trips (including Sudan) 1955'. Some printed and typescript material at the front.

Slides and negatives taken inside St Catherine's Monastery.

Note inside cover 'GW Allan Western desert 1940'.

Note inside cover 'GW Allan Naples-Jerusalem, Jaffa 1936'.

Brown cardboard box labeled 'St Catherine's negatives'. c. 200 col. and b/w negs, slides, photos of icons etc. inside the monastery.

Blue album with note 'Sinai negatives by GW Allan'. Rolls of col. neg. film.

Melinex envelope with note 'St Catherine's Sinai prints & negatives & slides'.

Melinex envelope with note 'Sinai negatives general including women in traditional dress'.

Melinex envelope with note 'Sinai Bedouin ?1935-1945'. Small b/w prints.

Melinex envelope with note 'St Catherine's monastery S. Sinai, Egypt taken by GW Allan 1955/6'. Col., b/w prints and negs.

Melinex envelope with note 'Taken by GW Allan unknown date St Catherine's monastery, desert and convent of Moses, Wadi Feiran'. b/w prints.

Folder labelled 'Sinai prints'. 8 b/w prints.

Melinex envelope with note 'Notes & articles on St Catherine's 1958'.