Syria. Asia - Syria. nation. Longitude: 38.0000. Latitude: 35.0000.
Subject
Subject Source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Four albums of photographs by James Simson.
Fonds
Identifier: Acc.3348
Scope and Contents
Includes photographs of Palestine, Syria, the Levant, Athens, Vienna and Strasbourg, and photocopies of 10 volumes of travel journals.
Dates:
1876.
Journal of Sir Alexander Bannerman of Elsick, of tours in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, The Levant, Turkey and in Europe, with descriptions of yachting and sporting visits to Scotland.
Item
Identifier: Acc.13494
Scope and Contents
The journal includes an eye-witness account of Napoleon III`s arrival in Paris in 1852. In 1853, Bannerman records visits to the Pyramids and Jerusalem and gives a detailed account of a Bull Fight in Cadiz in 1853. In 1861, Bannerman records visits to Constantinople, Athens and Malta.The accounts of foreign tours are interspersed with descriptions of several yachting expeditions, mostly starting from Cowes, to Ireland and Scotland but also to Europe. In 1854-1856,...
Dates:
1852-1867
Letter of David Roberts to George Grove.
Item
Identifier: Acc.11011
Scope and Contents
Concerns Grove`s travels in Palastine and Syria.
Dates:
1861.
"Observations on Egypt, Syria and Greece made during a three years cruise in HMS Myrmidon", an account by George Sibbald, Assistant Surgeon, Royal Navy, Edinburgh.
Item
Identifier: Acc.12668
Dates:
? 1816-1818.