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<p>[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 9987111, member: 6444"]Going through misc stuff I’ve accumulated for unknown reasons, came across a photo album of an American touring Europe and the Middle East in march to may, 1922. Includes personal photos of Spain, Turkey, Northern Africa, Portugal, Algeria, Syria, Italy, England, others. Majority taken in Egypt, Palestine and Greece. Pics of both monuments and candid shots; residents, workers, children, even a passing funeral and public hanging. This would have been just months before discovery of Tutankhamens tomb, while England was occupying the Middle East (one of the candid shots is columns of English troops streaming down a dirt path).</p><p><br /></p><p>Many pictures have hand writing with explanations and dates, guessing written on negatives before printing. I have not seen this before, was this common?</p><p><br /></p><p>No relation to me. All told, about 250-300 different pictures. If you had this, what would you do with it?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]501524[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501525[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501526[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501527[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501528[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501529[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501530[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501531[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501532[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jeff Drum, post: 9987111, member: 6444"]Going through misc stuff I’ve accumulated for unknown reasons, came across a photo album of an American touring Europe and the Middle East in march to may, 1922. Includes personal photos of Spain, Turkey, Northern Africa, Portugal, Algeria, Syria, Italy, England, others. Majority taken in Egypt, Palestine and Greece. Pics of both monuments and candid shots; residents, workers, children, even a passing funeral and public hanging. This would have been just months before discovery of Tutankhamens tomb, while England was occupying the Middle East (one of the candid shots is columns of English troops streaming down a dirt path). Many pictures have hand writing with explanations and dates, guessing written on negatives before printing. I have not seen this before, was this common? No relation to me. All told, about 250-300 different pictures. If you had this, what would you do with it? [ATTACH=full]501524[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501525[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501526[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501527[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501528[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501529[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501530[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501531[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]501532[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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