Photographs of Sudan and Egypt, 1880s

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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]

Publisher

Making African Connections

Type

PhysicalObject

Format

380 mm x 280 mm

Identifier

8709.1.1

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© 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