{"id":3049,"date":"2011-07-21T08:44:30","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:44:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/dukelibrariesrbmscl\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2011-07-21T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T12:44:31","slug":"day-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2011\/07\/21\/day-nine\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Days, 10 New Acquisitions: Day Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re celebrating the beginning of a new fiscal year by reviewing some notable items and collections that arrived here at the RBMSCL in the past year. Get ready for announcements of many more exciting acquisitions in 2011-2012!<\/p>\n

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Photographs of the Holy Land: Sinai and Palestine; Lower Egypt, Thebes, and the Pyramids; Upper Egypt and Ethiopia<\/a><\/strong> by Francis Frith, 1863.<\/p>\n

In 1856-57, when the science and art of photography were still young and developing (pun intended), the Englishman Francis Frith traveled to the Middle East to photograph the great sites of antiquity.\u00a0 A work of monumental proportions and importance to the early history of documentary photography, Francis Frith’s Photographs of the Holy Land<\/em> includes some of the earliest published photographic images of Jerusalem, as well as iconic views of Egypt’s monuments and ruins, some now lost or much more decayed. The 111 albumen photographs are mounted in three folio volumes, and the set acquired by Duke this year is notable for the fine condition of the photographs.<\/p>\n

From the Archive of Documentary Arts<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more photos of our new acquisitions (and other materials from the RBMSCL\u2019s collections), check out the \u201cFrom the RBMSCL\u2019s Collections<\/a>\u201d set on the Duke University Libraries\u2019 Flickr photostream.<\/p>\n

Post contributed by Will Hansen, Assistant Curator of Collections.<\/em><\/p>\n

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