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Call Number:

PH-00965

Collection Name:

Descriptive Album of Photographs of the Great Pyramid Taken by C. Piazzi Smyth in 1865

Creator:

Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi), 1819-1900 (1819 - 1900)

No. of Items:

50 items

Span Dates:

1865/1879

Description:

Smyth, C. Piazzi (Charles Piazzi), 1819-1900. Descriptive Album of Photographs of the Great Pyramid Taken by C. Piazzi Smyth in 1865. (Manchester: J.S. Pollitt, 1879). Photographically illustrated book containing fifty mounted albumen prints by the English photographer Charles Piazzi Smyth. Titles follow:

957:0085:0001 -- New Excavations of King Shafre’s Granite Tomb;
957:0085:0002 -- Second Pyramid;
957:0085:0003 -- Second and Third Pyramid;
957:0085:0004 -- Entrance Passage;
957:0085:0005 -- Alee Dobre;
957:0085:0006 -- Well Chamber of King Shafre’s Granite Tomb;
957:0085:0007 -- Well Chamber of King Shafre’s Granite Tomb;
957:0085:0008 -- Well Chamber of King Shafre’s Granite Tomb;
957:0085:0009 -- The Western Aisle of King Shafre’s Granite Tomb;
957:0085:0010 -- The Great Sphinx;
957:0085:0011 -- Coffer in King’s Chamber of Great Pyramid;
957:0085:0012 -- Coffer in King’s Chamber;
957:0085:0013 -- The Broken South-East Corner of Coffer;
957:0085:0014 -- Base of Niche in the Queen’s Chamber;
957:0085:0015 -- Mouth of Entrance Passage;
957:0085:0016 -- The third and fifth pyramids of Jeezeh;
957:0085:0017 -- North front of Great Pyramid;
957:0085:0018 -- Mouth of the entrance passage;
957:0085:0019 -- The Angle Stone Over the Mouth of the Entrance Passage;
957:0085:0020 -- Ibrahim the Cook;
957:0085:0021 -- Sand Slope;
957:0085:0022 -- Side View of Beginning of Slope of Entrance Passage in Great Pyramid;
957:0085:0023 -- Distant Veiw of the Great Pyramid and the Second Pyramid;
957:0085:0024 -- A Portion of the Granite Casing in Situ of the Third Pyramid;
957:0085:0025 -- A Burial Cave;
957:0085:0026 -- Alee Dobre;
957:0085:0027 -- Engraved Vertical Section of Great Pyramid;
957:0085:0028 -- The Great Pyramid on Its Hill, Viewed from the East;
957:0085:0029 -- The South-East Corner of the Great Pyramid;
957:0085:0030 -- The Palm Trees of Egypt;
957:0085:0031 -- The Eastern and Northern Faces of the Great Pyramid;
957:0085:0032 -- The North-East Corner of the Great Pyramid;
957:0085:0033 -- The Great Pyramid and the Second Pyramid;
957:0085:0034 -- Alee Dobre;
957:0085:0035 -- The Close of the Day at the Pyramid Hill;
957:0085:0036 -- View at east tombs;
957:0085:0037 -- The Second Pyramid from King Shafre’s Granite Tomb;
957:0085:0038 -- All the Pyramids of Jeezeh;
957:0085:0039 -- The Southern Hill and the Three-Tree Valley;
957:0085:0040 -- The Corner-Stone Socket;
957:0085:0041 -- The South-East Corner Socket-Hole;
957:0085:0042 -- South-West Corner Socket Hole;
957:0085:0043 -- The North-West Socket Hole;
957:0085:0044 -- The North-East Socket Hole;
957:0085:0045 -- The Great Pyramid;
957:0085:0046 -- Part of the Western Excavated Enclosure of the Second Pyramid;
957:0085:0047 -- Abdul Samud;
957:0085:0048 -- Engraved Vertical Section of King’s Chamber;
957:0085:0049 -- The Fiducial Sockets of the Great Pyramid;
957:0085:0050 -- The Emplacement of the Passages and Chambers of the Great Pyramid.

Location(s):

q DT 63 S592 HRC-P (957:0085:0001-0050)
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