Muir (John) Egyptian views brought home photograph album [graphic], [1904?]
Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- [Egyptian views brought home by John Muir] [graphic]
- Dates:
- [1904?]
- Creators:
- Muir, John, 1838-1914.
- Extent:
- 1 album (103 photographic prints) : albumen ; 29 x 38 cm (album)
- Language:
- Finding aid is written in English. and Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], [Egyptian views brought home by John Muir] [graphic] (Collection 94/228). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Background
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of Isabel Gaines of Chatsworth, California, August 1983.
- 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:
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Title from inscription on card laid in, possibly in the hand of a former owner or dealer.
Photographs (21 x 28 cm) are mounted one to a page on leaves of black paper; Sébah's photos are carefully signed; Beato's signature appears on some of his photos, and in some cases, that signature is printed in reverse; identifying captions in pencil visible on versos of some photographs; most have brief captions pencilled below on page.
Bound in plain brown cloth boards; manufacturer's label on front pastedown of the Heinn Specialty Co. of Milwaukee, Wis., with stock number [?] "410" stamped in red.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Bisharin (African people)--Photographs.
Mummies--Egypt--Photographs.
Temples, Egyptian--Egypt--Photographs.
Tombs--Egypt--Photographs.
Obelisks--Egypt--Photographs.
Pyramids--Egypt--Photographs.
Sailboats--Egypt--Photographs.
Steamboats--Egypt--Photographs.
Camels--Egypt--Photographs.
Water buffalo--Egypt--Photographs.
Donkeys--Egypt--Photographs.
Palms--Egypt--Photographs.
Baobab--Zimbabwe--Photographs.
Egyptians--Portraits.
Ethiopians--Portraits.
Turks--Portraits.
Albumen prints--Egypt--1886-1890.
Photographic prints--Egypt--1886-1890.
Portrait photographs--Egypt--1886-1890.
Architectural photographs--Egypt--1886-1890.
Platinum prints--Zimbabwe--Bulawayo.
Photograph albums.
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2015
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from MARC record, encoding added via Notetab Pro. Date of source: 2/2015 . Supplementary encoding and revision by Caroline Cubé.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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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:
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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], [Egyptian views brought home by John Muir] [graphic] (Collection 94/228). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988