Portraits of women: North Africa.
- Date:
- [approximately 1900]
- Reference:
- 3306880i
- Part of:
- The Fallaize Collection.
- Pictures
Collection contents
About this work
Description
10 studio photographs of naked women from North Africa.
Publication/Creation
[approximately 1900]
Physical description
10 photographs and one envelope
Contributors
Notes
The photographs were originally grouped under the heading 'North Africa', this heading may have been assigned when the Wellcome Library recieved the collection from Edwin Fallaize in 1936, or when the collection was first catalogued in 2001.
The envelope details the photographer's name: G. Lekegian, Cairo, Egypt.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 3306880i
Ownership note
Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.
Type/Technique
Where to find it
Location Status Access Closed stores