M0001945EA: Reproduction of a photograph from an unknown publication with the caption "The Step Pyramid of Sakkara. Showing the excavations now being made" also known as the Pyramid of Djoser, an archaeological remain in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt / M0001945EB: Reproduction of a photograph from an unknown publication with the caption "The temple of Deir el-Bahri" [Deir el-Bahari]

Date:
June 1931
Reference:
WT/D/1/20/1/18/27
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view M0001945EA: Reproduction of a photograph from an unknown publication with the caption "The Step Pyramid of Sakkara. Showing the  excavations now being made" also known as the Pyramid of Djoser, an archaeological remain in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt / M0001945EB: Reproduction of a photograph from an unknown publication with the caption "The temple of Deir el-Bahri" [Deir el-Bahari]

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M0001945EA: Reproduction of a photograph from an unknown publication with the caption "The Step Pyramid of Sakkara. Showing the excavations now being made" also known as the Pyramid of Djoser, an archaeological remain in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt / M0001945EB: Reproduction of a photograph from an unknown publication with the caption "The temple of Deir el-Bahri" [Deir el-Bahari]. In copyright. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Previous title, replaced May 2020: View of the step pyramid of Sakkara showing excavations
Previous title, replaced May 2020: Temple of Deir-El-Bahari

Description

Two images on one negative: the first is a landscape photograph rotated to fit the page, with the caption "Egypt, the Nile" at the header and "The Step Pyramid of Sakkara. Showing the excavations now being made" at the footer, which is also known as the Pyramid of Djoser, an archaeological remain in the Saqqara necropolis, Egypt. The second is a photograph with the caption "Egypt and the Sudan" at the header, and "The temple of Deir el-Bahri" [Deir el-Bahari or Deir el-Bahri Site (Egypt)] at the footer. They are reproduced from Haggard, Howard W.: Devils, drugs, and doctors : the story of the science of healing from medicine-man to doctor New York : Blue Ribbon Books, [1929].

Publication/Creation

June 1931

Physical description

2 photographs on 1 plate glass plate negative; 16.5 x 12 cm

Related material

Wellcome Collection holds an edition of the publication depicted in the glass plate negative

Notes

Catalogue data comes from a combination of entries in the original glass plate registers, metadata created when the glass plates were digitised in the early 2000s and enhancements made by the cataloguer in 2020.

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