Smith, John Shaw
Irish (1811-1873)

DESCRIPTIVE TITLE: Uzbekeeh Square

1851-60 ca. / ca.1940
Gelatin DOP
16.4 x 21.5 cm.
Gift of Alden Scott Boyer
81:1683:0351

OLD GEH NUMBER: 13574-351

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCE: Barrett, Nancy. --Catalogue of the Photographs of John Shaw Smith Annotated and with Description and Analysis.-- Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1981. il 52, 106.//

INSCRIPTION: verso (in pencil, written by a family member) "Part of the Square of the Uzbekeeh. Cairo. Nov.1851"

NOTES: See positive 81:1683:153. According to Nancy Barrett this image is reproduced in Smith's album entitled "Egypt" which is held in the collection of the Photographic Society of Ireland in Dublin. Variant in the HRHRC Collection of the University of Texas at Austin (964:0078:113). Catalogued 9/92, MAP.

SUBJECT: cityscape, square / Uzbekeeh