A journal on the Bedawin, 1889-1912.

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A journal on the Bedawin, 1889-1912.

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Kept during 17 trips up the Nile River, the journal contains a daily account of the social and personal life on the expeditions and of passages to and from Egypt, together with accounts of associations with such Egyptologists as Friederich Wilhelm von Bissing, Howard Carter, Gaston Maspero, Percy Edward Newberry, A. H. Sayce, and Arthur Weigall, and with Bernard Berenson.

2 v. (1058 p.).

American Philosophical Society Library

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American Philosophical Society Library

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Berenson, Bernard, 1865-1959

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Bernard Berenson (June 26, 1865 – October 6, 1959) was an American art historian specializing in the Renaissance. His book Drawings of the Florentine Painters was an international success. His wife Mary is thought to have had a large hand in some of the writings. Berenson was a major figure in the attribution of Old Masters, at a time when these were attracting new interest by American collectors, and his judgments were widely respected in the art world. Recent research has cast doubt on some...

Davis, Theodore M., 1837-1915

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Epithet: Egyptologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x000361 ...

Carter, Howard, 1874-1939

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Bissing, Friederich Wilhelm von.

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Weigall, Arthur E. P. Brome (Arthur Edward Pearse Brome), 1880-1934

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Sayce, A.H. (Archibald Henry), 1845-1933

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English philologist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Alexandria, Egypt, to [Frank] Cowper, 1925 Nov. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270965746 Archibald Henry Sayce was born in Shirehampton, England, on September 25, 1845. Despite poor health as a child, Sayce was reading Greek classics by the age of ten. In 1858, he began studying Hebrew. Sayce entered Oxford in 1865 where his education was hampered by poor eyesight and failing health. He e...

Newberry, Percy E. (Percy Edward), 1869-1949

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Epithet: Egyptologist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001137.0x0001e5 ...

Maspero, G. (Gaston), 1846-1916

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French Egyptologist. From the description of Letters, 1884-1887. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 83681462 ...

Andrews, Emma B., 1837-1922.

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Emma B. Andrews accompanied her relative Theodore M. Davis (1837-1915) of New York and Newport, R.I., on his annual visits to Egypt for a period of more than twenty years. From the description of A journal on the Bedawin, 1889-1912. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523420 A wealthy retired businessman and art collector from New York and Newport, R.I., Theodore M. Davis financed a series of archeological excavations in Egypt betwee...