• Scenes in Egypt and the Sudan, 1912-1914.

Online Collections:

• Manuscripts (Welcome Additions Exhibition)
• Digitized Manuscripts
• Bound Manuscripts Collection First Series C0199
• Capturing Feathers

Created:

• 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z/1914-12-31T23:59:59Z

Date created:

• 1912-1914.

Extent:

• 2 v. ; 33 cm.

Identifier:

• ark:/88435/z029p905q

Creator:

• West, Louis C. (Louis Caulton), 1882-

Language:

• English

Edm rights:

• No Known Copyright

View in catalog:

• https://catalog.princeton.edu/catalog/9933293573506421

Call number:

• C0199 no. 1114q

Format:

• Visual material

Type:

• Photographs

Subject:

• Cairo (Egypt)—20th century—Photographs
• Egypt—20th century—Photographs
• Sudan—20th century—Photographs
• Karmah (Sudan)—20th century—Photographs
• Photograph albums—20th century
• Photographs

Spatial:

• Egypt
• Sudan

Source acquisition:

• Gift; Louis C. West; 1967. Acc. no. AM 19130.

Author:

• West, Louis C. (Louis Caulton), 1882-

Abstract:

• Photograph albums assembled by Louis C. West in Egypt and Sudan, 1912-1914, while on expeditions sponsored by the Boston Museum of Art and Harvard University. Contains approximately 500 photographs of people, social life and customs, antiquities, funeral scenes, religious processions, etc. Together with printed article by West on the Dongola Province. Place names identified: Cairo, Argo, and Kerma, Sudan.

Location:

• Special Collections C0199 no. 1114q

Alternative:

• Scrapbook
• Dongola province of the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan

Exhibit Tags:

• hawk
• Falcon
• Horus