Andreas Daniel Reiser.
- Date:
- [late 19th century]
- Reference:
- 3306879i
- Part of:
- The Fallaize Collection.
- Pictures
Collection contents
About this work
Description
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14 postcards: studio photographs of bare breasted Egyptian women.
Andreas Daniel Reiser was a German photographer, printer/publisher; born in Munich who set up a postcard production business in Cairo and Alexandria which flourished between about 1878 and 1898.
Publication/Creation
[late 19th century]
Physical description
14 photographic postcards
Contributors
Notes
The postcards were originally grouped under the heading 'Andreas Daniel Reiser', 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.
Reference
Wellcome Collection 3306879i
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