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  • El-Amarna, Egypt; washing pots and pans in the Nile
  • Helwan, Egypt; smallholding growing sweet clover
  • Luxor, Egypt; cattle and livestock market. Shows extent of market in N0022543C with many men, donkeys, goats and cattle. The two men in the foreground have just purchased goats. Photographed January 1990.
  • Nepal; village in the Rapti Valley, Terai, 1986
  • Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover
  • Watercolour of a typical Alpine house created by using a camera lucida
  • Nepal; wooden suspension bridge over a canyon
  • Helwan, Egypt; harvesting sweet clover
  • Nepal; agriculture and subsistence in the Khumbu, 1986. Sherpa with young yak. The economic emphasis of the Khumbu is on animal husbandry, and the breeding and tending of yaks and cattle was an important occupation when this photograph was taken. Yaks command a good price. On walled, flat terraces, Sherpas cultivate their staple diet of potatoes, barley, buckwheat, and in lower areas, rice. In this picture, taken at altitude 2900 metres, the land sustains the commercial cultivation of medicinal herbs although increases in production are limited by environmental degradation, largely through soil erosion.
  • Helwan, Egypt; washing a water buffalo
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    Nepal; wooden suspension bridge over a canyon

    Carole Reeves
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    Thebes, Egypt; felucca on the Nile, 1990

    Carole Reeves
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    Helwan, Egypt; women carrying sweet clover

    Carole Reeves
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    Watercolour of a typical Alpine house created by using a camera lucida

    Joseph Jackson Lister
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    Helwan, Egypt; farm cultivation

    Carole Reeves
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