Traveller's Nile Boat, or "Dahabeeh", with Nubian Scenery and Figures.
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London Stereoscopic Company
British
Traveller's Nile Boat, or "Dahabeeh", with Nubian Scenery and Figures.
From Views in Egypt and Nubia.
ca. 1859
Albumen silver print
7.0 x 7.0 cm. (each); on 8.3 x 17.2 cm. mount
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley
Inscriptions mount recto-(blindstamp) "The London Steroscopic Company"
recto-(in image) "Frith 325"
mount verso-(printed) "325" "Views in Egypt and Nubia." "Traveller's
Nile Boat, or 'Dahabeeh,' with Nubian Scenery and Figures." "About
from 100 to 150 of these boats are hired annually, by European and
American travellers for the Nile voyage, and, for locomotive homes,
are almost luxurious - many of them being now clean and well fitted."
(applied label) "C.T. Amsler, Optician, 635 Chestnut St., Phila."
recto-(in image) "Frith 325"
mount verso-(printed) "325" "Views in Egypt and Nubia." "Traveller's
Nile Boat, or 'Dahabeeh,' with Nubian Scenery and Figures." "About
from 100 to 150 of these boats are hired annually, by European and
American travellers for the Nile voyage, and, for locomotive homes,
are almost luxurious - many of them being now clean and well fitted."
(applied label) "C.T. Amsler, Optician, 635 Chestnut St., Phila."
