Andreas Daniel Reiser.

Date:: [late 19th century]

Reference:: 3306879i

Part of:: The Fallaize Collection.

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Collection contents

The Fallaize Collection.
- Andreas Daniel Reiser.3306879i

About this work

Description

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14 postcards: studio photographs of bare breasted Egyptian women.

Andreas Daniel Reiser was a German photographer, printer/publisher; born in Munich who set up a postcard production business in Cairo and Alexandria which flourished between about 1878 and 1898.

Publication/Creation

[late 19th century]

Physical description

14 photographic postcards

Contributors

Fallaize, Edwin Nichol, 1877-1957former owner

Notes

The postcards were originally grouped under the heading 'Andreas Daniel Reiser', this heading may have been assigned when the Wellcome Library recieved the collection from Edwin Fallaize in 1936, or when the collection was first catalogued in 2001.

Reference

Wellcome Collection 3306879i

Ownership note

Originally collected by British anthropologist Edwin Nichol Fallaize (1877-1957). Purchased by Capt. L.W.G. Malcolm in 1934, on behalf of Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome, for the price of £25. From a letter in the Wellcome archives dated 16th December 1934.