Dwellings - Egypt

Date: 1964

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6290

Description: Photographs of mud built houses decorated with painted designs, Nubia. Views of the River Nile. Views of mud walled enclosures. Procession crossing bridge in unidentified city. The newly sited colossi of Abu Simbel. Sail boats on the Nile. Photographed by John Feeney in 1964. Quantity: 19 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 1862

From: Simpson, William, 1823-1899 :Sketchbook. India, Madras, Bombay and voyage home. 1861-1862.

Reference: E-063-109

Description: View of Cairo and the Nile River, with houses beside the river and a sailing boat on the Nile. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour, page size 78 x 138 mm

From: [Walsh, Philip] 1843-1914 :[Middle East and New Zealand sketchbook] 1883-1892.

Reference: E-369-038

Description: Shows area in Suez Canal Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil drawing 105 x 184 mm

Date: ca 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0439

Description: A view of Port Tewfick, Suez showing some dwellings Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 138 mm

Date: 1868

From: Liverpool, Cecil George Savile Foljambe, Earl of, 1846-1907 :[Sketchbook] 1868

Reference: E-304-029/030

Description: A landscape looking out towards a bay with distant sailing ships. A village with palm trees is in the foreground, a tall palm and the well to the right Quantity: 1 watercolour(s) across two pages. Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour, 100 x 280 mm

Date: 1886

From: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907 :Sketches for Lady Brassey's `Last Voyage'. 1886-1887.

By: Pritchett, Robert Taylor, 1823-1907

Reference: E-022-q-012

Description: Two sailors rowing a small boat on the Nile, with Lord and Lady Brassey on board. The Sunbeam (yacht) can be seen moored further down the river. There are crowds of people on the shore, smoke rising from lighting braziers and tall buildings behind Published as a chromolithograph, with title Port Said. Coaling party in The last voyage. Annie Brassey, 1887, opposite page 1. The Library's copy of the book includes the artist's annotation on this illustration 'going to dance' Extended Title - From his Sketches for Lady Brassey's "Last voyage". Inscriptions: Recto - bottom left - date Dec 11, bottom right, monogram, beneath image (in red ink) Jan and title Quantity: 1 drawing(s). Physical Description: Pencil on sheet 305 x 207 mm.

Date: 1941? to 1943

By: McLean, Stuart, active 1941-1945

Reference: PA1-o-314

Description: Album of photographs probably taken by Corporal Stuart McLean when with the 2NZEF in the Middle East, 1941 to 1942. Photographs mostly of street scenes, monuments, and historic sites in Egypt, Libya and Israel. A few photographs show scenes associated with World War II, including group portraits of soldiers in Stuart McLean's company, war damage in Tripoli which fell to the 8th Army, 23rd January 1943, and war cemeteries in Jerusalem, Bagush and Takrouna. Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Album with dark blue leather cover, coloured illustration in the centre, with an Egyptian scene including pyramids, palms and a camel; 21 x 28 cm

Date: 1865

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: B-041-018

Description: Desert landscape, with date palms, and a small Arab settlement. To the left, a woman and child and a man with two camels. Likely to be Egypt or Palestine, visted by Fox in 1865. Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Watercolour pasted to board, 205 x 347 mm Provenance: Not known

Date: 1816 - 1820

From: Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Richard Taylor, the gift of his Father. 1816-1824, 1832, 1849.

Reference: E-383-018

Description: Inscriptions: Album page - beneath image - title in the hand of the artist Richard Taylor's father was also Richard Taylor. Quantity: 1 drawing(s) on album page. Physical Description: Pencil on page, 168 x 203 mm

Date: [ca 1990s]

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6203

Description: Unidentified fern frond. Apartment buildings. Basket of vegetables. Bowl of white truffles. Photographed by John Feeney probably some time in the 1990s. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 1915

By: Barraud, William Francis, 1850-1926

Reference: A-072-016

Description: Tenement buildings, a minaret and a domed building, probably a mosque, a date palm and people in the street. Paper watermarked Whatman 1915 England Quantity: 1 b&w art print(s). Physical Description: Etching 227 x 158 mm (platemark) on sheet 308 x 227 mm

Date: ca 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0433

Description: Shows a street in Port Said, taken by L & H Cairo Quantity: 1 colour photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 93 x 133 mm

Date: 1964

From: Feeney, John Patrick, 1922-2006 :Photographs

Reference: PA12-6288

Description: Photographs of Nubia, Egypt. These include views of the Nile and the countryside. The people. Mimosa trees. Ruins of ancient Egypt including Abu Simbel. Photographed by John Feeney in 1964. Quantity: 23 colour original transparency/ies. Physical Description: Dye coupler tranparencies, 35mm, mounted

Date: 1915-1916

From: Bennett, Agnes Elizabeth Lloyd, 1872-1960 : Photographs

Reference: PAColl-6972-08

Description: Ruins and public sculptures of ancient Egypt at Luxor and Karnak; New Zealand military hospitals in Cairo with group photographs of convalescing New Zealand soldiers; Egyptian nurses and midwives as well as other Egyptians carrying out their daily occupations such as water carriers, farmers, cab drivers, pottery sellers, manure carriers, and men operating irrigation technology. There are photographs of waterwheels and other technologies for lifting water from the nile for irrigation. There are some photographs of major architectural features of Cairo such as the Citadel, and a large Mosque. Quantity: 46 b&w original photographic print(s). 10 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). 4 colour photo-mechanical print(s).

Date: ca 1910-1913

Reference: PA5-0425

Description: Shows Port Tewfick, Suez Quantity: 1 b&w photo-mechanical print(s). Physical Description: Photolithograph 87 x 138 mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7067

Description: Photographs of the Suez Canal taken from a ship in the 1960s by John Ingle. Views show life along the canal including encampments, camels, mosques, a man riding a donkey across desert, the Suez Canal Defence Monument, "ships that pass" in the canal; houses; an oasis; people waving from the bank; and the Qatara Camel Corps. The last images show a map of Italy and ships in the port at Naples. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [ca 1960s]

From: Ingle, Alfred John, 1917-2003 :Colour slides of New Zealand and a world trip

Reference: PA12-7066

Description: Photographs of Aden and the Suez Canal taken in the 1960s by John Ingle. Views of Aden include an oil barge; passengers on a tender returning from Aden and the Aden coast. Images in the Suez Canal show administration buildings; and life along the canal including different types of houses including one made from three large oil pipes; crops of rice and wheat, with fresh water channel for irrigation; a village surrounded by palm trees with a water tower in the background and desert beyond; farms with goats and cattle; oxen pumping water; fishing boats and a fishing village; ships and barges in the Great Bitter Lake; a camel near a camp. Quantity: 24 colour original transparency/ies slides. Physical Description: Dye coupler transparencies, 35mm

Date: [Between 1940 and 1943]

From: Colville, Lionel Alfred Clarence, 1918-2004:Photograph albums

Reference: PA1-q-055

Description: Postcards, both coloured and black & white of Egypt; and views of everyday life in Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Transjordania, photographed by Lionel Alfred Colville while stationed in the Middle East during World War II. There is a group portrait of students at No. 19 Aircraft Recognition Instructors' Course, held at Amman, Transjordania in March 1943; one image of members of the Egyptian Camel Corps, and images of the Emir of Transjordania. There is also one image of German parachutists coming down over Crete. Other Titles - Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Transjordania Quantity: 1 album(s) Album(s). Physical Description: Dark brown cover embossed with pattern, entitled "Photographs", with additional title hand-written in white ink which reads "Egypt, Syria, Lebanons [sic], Transjordania", 25 x 30 cm

Date: 1884

From: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925 :Pencil and watercolour drawings 1868-1891

By: Holmes, Katherine McLean, 1849-1925

Reference: E-326-f-049-3

Description: The coastline at Ismailiya showing a sailing vessel, two people in a rowing boat, buildings in the background and a red sky Other Titles - Ismailiya Inscriptions: Recto - above image - 1884; Recto - bottom left - K Holmes; Recto - bottom right - Ismalia Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil and watercolour 104 x 175 mm

Date: 1865

By: Fox, William, 1812-1893

Reference: WC-113

Description: Shows pyramids, camels, figures, small village in distance, with a sunrise or sunset Other Titles - Giza Egypt Inscriptions: Recto - title in the artist's hand in pencil Quantity: 1 watercolour(s). Physical Description: Pencil & watercolour 349 x 245 mm