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Lantern slide. Showing the obelisks of Hatshepsut and Thuthmose I at Karnak. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'The obelisk of Queen Hattisu at Karnak which is of equal size to this, was quarried out and despatched and erected in seven months from the time at which the order for it was given....'. This view is similar to EC1749.

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Lantern slide. Showing the view from the Island of Philae. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'From the top of the Temple of Isis we have a view of the valley of El-Shallel'

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Lantern slide. Showing the Aswan. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have a view of Assouan. In ancient remains Assuan is not very rich though such antiquities as are to be found here are of very consierable interest, only a fraction of the ancient buildings are still to be seen even in the ruins...There are new gardens in Assoun which are actually known to be blooming above the libraries of the past but in contemplating such catastrophies one can attach blame to no-one, except perhaps the archaeologist and the archaeologically interested public who failed to excavate these sites while there was yet time. The new buildings, the new roads these new gardens are healthy signs of modern progress which no sane person could wish to check and no man could hope to regulate.'

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Lantern slide. Showing the Great Barrage of the Aswan dam. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Not far below the Island of Sehel stands the great barrage which was built for the purpose of storing water in Lower Nubia during the Winter in order to use it when the nile is low in the summer...'. This view is similar to EC1788 and EC1791.

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Lantern slide. Showing the First Catarct. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have the first cataract. This shows you the water as it leaves the sluices of the barrage. By the way there are 120 sluices to the barrage which is 1 1/4 miles long and 40 feet wide at the base.' This view is similar to EC1789.

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Lantern slide. Showing the guard at Aswan. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have the Sudanese guard who guard the barrage. They all readily fell in for me to take their photos and naturally expected me to show it to them as soon as I had taken it, but of course that didn't come off.'

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Lantern slide. Showing the Sudanese Guard guarding the Aswan dam. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'The Cpl of the Guard who expressed a wish to be taken alone'

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Lantern slide. Showing the Island of Elephantine. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have the Island of Elephantine which extends for about a mile and a half...One of the most recent finds in recent years was made in 1907. Immediately behind the rest house a chamber was discovered in which were several small stone sarcophagi and on opening they were found to contain the mummies of the sacred rams of Khnum of the Ptolemaic Period....'. This view is similar to EC1750.

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Lantern slide. Showing a village in Nubia. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'This is the Bishereen Arab camp at Nubia between Assouan and Philae. It gives one a good idea of the type of dwellings that are to be seen throughout Egypt in most of the villages...'

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Lantern slide. Showing the Kom Ombo from the river. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Thirty five miles from Assuaan in a northerly direction we come to the temple of Kom Ombo... which is beautifully situated on the east bank of the river Nile...On the south side the temple is continually menaced by the water which had already swallowed a large portion of the terrace and one side of the entrance pylon before it was held in check by the construction of a stone embankement in 1893...'. This is a similar view to EC1718.

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Lantern slide. Showing the temple of Kom Ombo. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Under Ptolemy 4th Philometer, the erection of the great dual temple which we now see was commenced. The east half being dedicated to Sobek and his trinity and the west half to Horus trinity...'This is a similar view to EC1720.

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Lantern slide. Showing sunset at Edfu. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have a sunset taken as we pass Ed-Fou.' This is a similar view to EC1721.

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Lantern slide. Showing the sunrise at Esna. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'We next come to Esna where we are greeted with a sun-rise taken at 4.20 in the morning'. This view is similar to EC1751.

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Lantern slide. Showing the sunrise at Esna. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Another sunrise taken one minute later'. This view is similar to EC1754.

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Lantern slide. Showing the Esna barrage. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have views of the Esna barrage taken from the shore which gives a good idea of what the barrage is like and it is here shown to advantage' The 'Esna barrage' built 1906-1908 is near Edfu. This view is similar to EC1752.

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Lantern slide. Showing the Esna barrage. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Another view of the barrage taken from the boat just after passing through the lock' The 'Esna barrage' built 1906-1908 is near Edfu. This view is similar to EC1790.

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Lantern slide. Showing the Esna barrage. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'here we see the barrage from the middle of the Nile' The 'Esna barrage' built 1906-1908 is near Edfu.

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Lantern slide. Showing the Esna canal. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have a small barrage at Esna which spans a canal cut for the purpose of irrigation. This canal is 50 miles long. This view is similar to EC1753 and EC1792.

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Lantern slide. Showing the Esna temple. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'The Esna temple built by Ptolemy 6th (BC 181-140). The temple as seen today is a rectangular building 108ft wide, 54 feet deep facing east or rather the river....'. This is a similar view to EC1722.

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Lantern slide. Showing the Montani sugar factory. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have the Mantani sugar factory 35 miles from Luxor'.

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Lantern slide. Showing a Felucca at Luxor. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'This is the boat that I engaged for my trip from Assouan to Luxor which took 19 3/4 hours. The jouney was 140 miles'.

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Lantern slide. Showing the Luxor temple colonnade. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'The temple of Luxor often alluded to as the most beautiful colonnade in Egypt, the south end of this temple was erected by Amenhotep 3rd in the 18th Dynasty and the north end by Rameses the Great'. This is a similar view to EC1723 and EC1724, EC1725.

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Lantern slide. Showing the Luxor temple colonnade. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Another view of the Luxor Colonnade. Here we see the different class of work. Rameses built on a bigger scale. Near here is an English Cemetery. Ernest Harold Jones artist, School of Art Carmarthen buried....'.

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Lantern slide. Showing a mosque in Luxor temple colonnade. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'A mosque built amongst the ruins of Luxor temple'. This is the Abu Haggag mosque. Similar view to EC 1707.

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Lantern slide. South gate of the temple at Karnak. This photograph was taken by Sgt. Johnson of the 436 Welsh Field Company c. 1917. It formed part of a lecture which he gave. The notes from his lecture read 'Here we have the south gate of the temple at Karnak (Karnak in arabic means window)....' This is the Karnak Gate of Ptolemy III Euergetes. Similar view to EC1708 and EC1726.

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