France, Egypt, Greece, and Italy photograph album, 1897-1899

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Title:
Photograph album of France, Egypt, Greece, and Italy
Dates:
1897-1899
Abstract:
Photograph album of architectural, landscape, and streetscape photographs by various 19th-century European photographers, featuring views of antiquities, cathedrals, castles, harbors, and street scenes in cities throughout France, Egypt, Greece, and Italy.
Extent:
1 album (217 photographic prints) : albumen, 24 x 34 cm (album)
Language:
Finding aid is written in English. and Materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Photograph album of France, Egypt, Greece, and Italy (Collection 94/95c). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Background

Scope and content:

The first 115 photographs in the album are views of French cities, beginning with Paris, Chartres, Orléans, Bourges, and Tours. The photographer systematically documents the great cathedrals of these towns, as well as their harbors, rivers, bridges, palaces, castles, and streets. Following a counter-clockwise itinerary around France, he goes on to visit the great chateaux of Loire Vallay--Amboise, Chenonceaux, Blois, and Chambord, and photograph the massive walls of the Chateau d'Angers. In Brittany, he records a peasant street market in Auray, the standing stones or "menhirs" in Carnac, the beach at Quiberon, and the harbors at Brest (where, in one photo, the battleship "Hoche" can be seen), Belle-Ile, and Saint Malo. Le Havre, Mont St Michel abbey, and the cathedrals in Rouen, Amiens, Coutance, Caen, and Reims are well-represented. The album includes four photos of the German town of Bad Kreuzbach by the Stengl studio in Dresden, views of Grenoble, Lyon, and the Rhone River in Vienne, before concluding the French portion with views of cities of southern France: Avignon, the Roman amphitheaters in Orange and Nîmes, the aqueduct at Nîmes, Arles, the walled city of Carcassonne, Toulouse, Pau, and finally, Marseille. Most of the French photos are by "ND Photo," the studio of the Neurdein brothers, Etienne and Charles; a few are signed "C.N. & Co." The 62 photos of Egypt, most by the Zangaki studio, with some signed by Antonio Beato, include views of well-known temples, tombs, and other antiquities in Alexandria, Cairo, Ṣaqqārah, Dandara, Luxor, Aswan, and Abydos, including the Sphinx, Phile temple, Karnak, and Valley of the Kings. The photographer captures the hustle and bustle of everyday street scenes in Cairo, documenting tradesman with their goods loaded on horses and donkeys, spice merchants gathered outside the intricately-carved wooden grillwork of their shop, a group of water vendors holding jugs and cups, two potters sitting in their shop piled high with clay water jugs for sale, young boys in a madrasah, reciting lessons for their teacher, and a peasant street bazaar. Several photos record the interiors and exteriors of the mosques, in all their splendor, while others document the tourist trade that flourished in Egypt during the late 19th-century, with scenes of the dahabiyas and feluccas that cruise the Nile, horse carriages ferrying tourists out to see the pyramids of Giza, and local guides helping Victorian visitors clamber up the pyramids. Along the Nile, groups of Bedouins pose with their camels and donkeys, or irrigate their fields with waterwheel and shadoof. The album also includes 24 photos of Greece, mainly the antiquities of the Acropolis, such as the Parthenon, Erectheion, and Temple of Jupiter, as well as the Theater of Dionysius, and Hephaisteion, and sculptures from the Acropolis Museum, and five views of Corfu. The album concludes with twelve photographs of Italian sites, including Naples, Vesuvius, and views of Pompei by Alinari.

Physical location:
Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.
Physical facet:

Photographs (23 x 30 cm) are mounted, one to a page, on rectos and versos of leaves of white paper; photographic credit, title, and stock number in negative on most photos; ms. captions below each photograph identify subject of photo, location, and date.

Album covers have been lost.

Spec. Coll. copy: in modern beige cloth clamshell box; spine label, with title "France, Egypt, and Italy."

Rules or conventions:
Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Jane Carpenter with assistance from Simon Elliott; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
Date Prepared:
© 2013
Date Encoded:
Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, encoding added via Notetab Pro. Date of source: 2013 . Supplementary encoding and revision by Caroline Cubé.

Access and use

Restrictions:

Open for research. STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Library Special Collections for paging information.

Terms of access:

Property rights to the physical object belong to the UC Regents. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Photograph album of France, Egypt, Greece, and Italy (Collection 94/95c). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.

Location of this collection:
A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library
Box 951575
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
Contact:
(310) 825-4988
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