Egypt portraits 1.

18 photographs: studio photographs of women, nude.

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[approximately 1900]

18 photographs and 1 envelope

The postcards were originally grouped under the heading 'Egypt 1', this heading may have been asigned when the Wellcome Library recieved the collection from Edwin Fallaize in 1936, or when the collection was first catalogued in 2001.

Wellcome Collection 3305259i

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.