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Title
Port on the Suez Canal, Egypt, ca.1900
Date Created and/or Issued
circa 1900
Publication Information
University of Southern California. Libraries
Contributing Institution
University of Southern California Digital Library
Collection
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Rights Information
For commercial reproduction please contact the National Library of Scotland by referring to http://www.nls.uk/copyright . For access to the originals please e-mail manuscripts@nls.uk
National Library of Scotland
National Library of Scotland, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh, EH1 1EW, Scotland, UK
The National Library of Scotland license the use of this content under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 2.5 UK: Scotland License.
manuscripts@nls.uk
Description
“Peridis No. 197 Mosquee a Port Teowfik [Tawfik]” Landscape view, showing the southern end of the Suez Canal, with a mosque on the shore. There are other buildings and a Shell oil company depot. This image is from a collection of photographs which possibly belonged to Dr Karl Uffman. He studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh and joined the Kikuyu mission, from 1901 to 1905, and was the son of Dr Henry Uffman who ran the Leprosy Asylum in Purulia, West Bengal.
Type
image
Format
Photographic prints, 27.9 x 22 cm.
Identifier
impa-a-nls-75657837-1.tif
http://doi.org/10.25549/impa-c123-79925
http://thumbnails.digitallibrary.usc.edu/impa-a-nls-75657837-1.jpg
Subject
Canals
Mosques
Travel
Time Period
circa 1900
Place
Africa
Egypt
Qanāt as- Suways
Source
Acc.7548/F/24 [Reference number]
NLS DOD ID: 75657835 [File]
Relation
International Mission Photography Archive, ca.1860-ca.1960
Photographs from Kikuya and Zanzibar, Africa
Photographs from Scottish Missions, the National Library of Scotland
image/tiff

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