Untitled album of photographs relating to British military operations in Sudan and North Africa in the 1880s.
Arnoux, Hippolyte,photographer.
Zangaki,photographers.
An album of 75 miscellaneous albumen prints relating to the British army and navy in North Africa and in particular Sudan, possibly taken during and after the Suakin British military expedition in the Mahdist War, which was led by Major-General Sir Gerald Graham V.C., with the intention of destroying the power of the Sudanese military commander Osman Digna and his troops in Suakin in Sudan.
The photographers are mostly unknown but there is one photograph of an African landscape by Egypt-based French photographer Hippolyte Arnoux and another by Zangaki (Zangaki brothers) of Egypt.
MacKinnon collection, jointly acquired with the National Galleries of Scotland, with assistance from the Scottish Government, National Lottery Heritage Fund and the Art Fund.
Title supplied by the cataloguer.