Photographs of Sudan and Egypt, 1880s
Item
Title
Photographs of Sudan and Egypt, 1880s
Photograph album
Subject
Sudan
Photographs
Description
Card-covered album belonging to Sapper J Read containing photographs of Egypt and Sudan during the 1880s.
Image 8709-1-1b shows the veiled wife of Col. Aḥmad ʿArābī, Egypt’s nationalistic Minister of War; his army was defeated later in 1882 by a British invasion force.
Image 8709-1-1c, taken between 1884 and 1886, depicts ‘friendly chiefs’ (i.e. those who did not support the Mahdī’s rebellion) at the unknown location of Olau.
Image 8709-1-1d is a vivid close up of a fighter from the Bishārīn clan, a sub-section of the Beja people of the Red Sea Hills.
Image 8709-1-1e is a scene from Wadi Halfa, a small town on the Nile that was inundated following the construction of Egypt’s Aswan Dam; this landscape, then, no longer exists.
Image 8709-1-1f, while taken at Luxor in Egypt, is important in that it shows local labourers loading the vessels that were used by Lord Wolseley (commander of the invasion force that defeated ʿArābī, above) in his failed Gordon Relief Expedition. [FN/ON 14.8.19, FHM 2019]
Image 8709-1-1b shows the veiled wife of Col. Aḥmad ʿArābī, Egypt’s nationalistic Minister of War; his army was defeated later in 1882 by a British invasion force.
Image 8709-1-1c, taken between 1884 and 1886, depicts ‘friendly chiefs’ (i.e. those who did not support the Mahdī’s rebellion) at the unknown location of Olau.
Image 8709-1-1d is a vivid close up of a fighter from the Bishārīn clan, a sub-section of the Beja people of the Red Sea Hills.
Image 8709-1-1e is a scene from Wadi Halfa, a small town on the Nile that was inundated following the construction of Egypt’s Aswan Dam; this landscape, then, no longer exists.
Image 8709-1-1f, while taken at Luxor in Egypt, is important in that it shows local labourers loading the vessels that were used by Lord Wolseley (commander of the invasion force that defeated ʿArābī, above) in his failed Gordon Relief Expedition. [FN/ON 14.8.19, FHM 2019]
Publisher
Making African Connections
Type
PhysicalObject
Format
380 mm x 280 mm
Identifier
8709.1.1
Source
Language
Relation
Rights
© Royal Engineers Museum
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Image of a 'Sudanese warrior' from the book "In the Track of the Sun; readings from the diary of a globe trotter ... With illustrations." | Physical Object |