Album labelled 'Egypt the desert blooms'
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'.
Album with catch labelled 'Cairo'
A note inside the cover reads 'Cairo/Dervish Community'
Note inside cover 'Map of the Red Sea Trip July/Aug. 1943' also 'Nag Hammadi/Sinai/Red Sea Fishing 1943'. Hand-drawn map inside cover.
Note inside cover 'GW Allan Western desert 1940'.
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).'
Note inside 'GW Allan Upper Egypt 1955'
Large folder with note 'Negatives & prints for Egypt Travel Quarterly Magazine'
Wooden slide box labeled 'Sinai Saint Catherine's Monastery'
Colour slides of monks, exterior and interior shots, icons, relics, people, places, views etc.
Wooden slide box labelled 'Ravenna St. Vitale Museum Natio[?]'
Colour slides of mosaics from the basilicas of St Vitale and St Apollinare Nuovo etc.