Souvenirs d'Egypte, 1862, 1862

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Summary

Creators:
Hammerschmidt, W., d. 1869, photographer.
Abstract:
Album of photographs of Egypt by W. Hammerschmidt, bearing binder's date of 1862.
Extent:
1 item (1 album, 54 photographic prints) : albumen silver, 38 x 47 cm (album) Photographs (24 x 32 cm) are mounted on rectos of leaves of heavy white card stock; photographer's name and stock number stamped in lower left or right corner of each photo; identifying captions in French printed below. Bound in black cloth covers, with gold-stamped title "Souvenirs d'Egypte 1862;" gold-stamped spine title "souvenirs d'Egypte." Spec. Coll. copy: name of former owner, "Ernest Godard," French physician and anthropologist, who died in Jerusalem in 1862, stamped in gold in lower left corner. In modern beige cloth clamshell box, with box title "Hammerschmidt. Souvenirs d'Egypte."
Language:
Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Souvenirs d'Egypte, 1862 (Collection 94**TR16.8.H183s). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Background

Scope and content:

Hammerschmidt's albumen silver prints, printed using a collodion glass negative, document the great mosques, temples, tombs, and other archaeological sites of Egypt, especially in Cairo, Alexandria, Luxor, Aswan, and Abu Simbel. Photos of Alexandria include views of the Place des Consuls, and Pompey's Pillar. In Cairo, there are many photos of the Citadel, and the Mosque of Muhammed Ali, as well as the area around the Citadel, including the striped facades of mosques and minarets. The album contains views of many of the antiquities sites, such as Dandara, the temples of Luxor viewed from the Nile, the massive columns of the temple at Karnak, the temple of Ramses III at Medina Habu, and the temple pylons at Idfu and Philae. In Aswan, feluccas, or traditional Egyptian sailboats, line the riverbank at Aswan, and there is also a view of Elephantine Island in the Nile. The album concludes with the Great Temple of Abu Simbel near the southern border with Sudan.

Biographical / historical:

Professional photographer, born in Berlin, Germany, active in Egypt between 1860 and 1869, where he maintained a studio, selling photographs, and photographic equipment, and supplies. He exhibited his photographs of Egypt at the Société Française de Photographie in 1861 and 1863, and at the Exposition Universelle in 1867. Cf. Focus East: early photography in the Near East (1839-1885) / by Nissan N. Perez. New York: Abrams, c1988, p. 174; and the Encyclopedia of nineteenth-century photography / John Hannavy, ed. London: Routledge, 2007, v. 1, p. 633, available online.

Acquisition information:
Forms part of the Boni Collection, gift of Albert Boni.
Processing information:

Processed by Jane Carpenter with assistance from Simon Elliott.

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Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Souvenirs d'Egypte, 1862 (Collection 94**TR16.8.H183s). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

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