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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) |
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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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