Abu Dhabi Tourism and Culture Authority
Country: Egypt
Collection Type: Library Public/ National Archive
Collection Size: > 50,000
Period: 1900-1930 1930-1960
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Digital files Film-based negatives Prints
Website: http://www.bibalex.org/Home/Default_EN.aspx
Photograph collections at Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BibAlex) are spread among a number of independent departments, the main ones being the Memory of Modern Egypt section and the Restoration Laboratory.
BibAlex/ Memory of Modern Egypt’s collection is primarily digital repository documenting the last 200 years of Egypt’s modern history through tens of thousands of varying items, categorized into 14 different material types, including documents, pictures, audios, videos, maps, articles, stamps, and coins. The Memory of Modern Egypt unit also holds 100 photographic albums dating from the 1920s-1970s, under the section “Special Projects”, that were donated in 2011 by the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of media, and the Council on Archeological Affairs in Egypt. The photographic collection amounts to over 60,000 photographs, many of them reprints or digital copies, depicting famous figures and important events in Egyptian history, and dating from the 1900s-1960s. More specifically, it documents the Royal Family, such as King Farouk’s official visits, as well as Sadat. The collection consists of film-based negatives, positives, B&W and colour images, and digital files. It is still expanding and accessible to researchers. A growing number of images, mainly from the photographic albums, are scanned and available online in the frame of Bibalex’s project “History of Modern Egypt”.
The Restoration Laboratory undertakes the restoration of manuscripts, rare books and maps. The unit is also expanding its efforts to photograph and microfilm preservation and restoration, having more recently acquired around 500 items including photogravures, photographs and postcards, ranging from the 1920s-1950s.
Contact Details: Ahmed Moussa, Head of Conservation Laboratory
[email protected]
Heba El Menshawy, Head of Restoration Training Unit, Restoration Section, Manuscript Museum
[email protected]
Mahmoud Ezzat, Head of Cultural Relations and Information, Memory of Modern Egypt
[email protected]
Sherine Nabil, Restoration Specialist for Rare Books & Manuscripts
[email protected]
Bibliotheca Alexandrina
Country: Egypt
Collection Type: Library Public/ National Archive
Collection Size: > 50,000
Period: 1900-1930 1930-1960
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Digital files Film-based negatives Prints
Website: http://www.bibalex.org/Home/Default_EN.aspx
Photograph collections at Bibliotheca Alexandrina (BibAlex) are spread among a number of independent departments, the main ones being the Memory of Modern Egypt section and the Restoration Laboratory.
BibAlex/ Memory of Modern Egypt’s collection is primarily digital repository documenting the last 200 years of Egypt’s modern history through tens of thousands of varying items, categorized into 14 different material types, including documents, pictures, audios, videos, maps, articles, stamps, and coins. The Memory of Modern Egypt unit also holds 100 photographic albums dating from the 1920s-1970s, under the section “Special Projects”, that were donated in 2011 by the Ministry of Tourism, the Ministry of media, and the Council on Archeological Affairs in Egypt. The photographic collection amounts to over 60,000 photographs, many of them reprints or digital copies, depicting famous figures and important events in Egyptian history, and dating from the 1900s-1960s. More specifically, it documents the Royal Family, such as King Farouk’s official visits, as well as Sadat. The collection consists of film-based negatives, positives, B&W and colour images, and digital files. It is still expanding and accessible to researchers. A growing number of images, mainly from the photographic albums, are scanned and available online in the frame of Bibalex’s project “History of Modern Egypt”.
The Restoration Laboratory undertakes the restoration of manuscripts, rare books and maps. The unit is also expanding its efforts to photograph and microfilm preservation and restoration, having more recently acquired around 500 items including photogravures, photographs and postcards, ranging from the 1920s-1950s.
Contact Details: Ahmed Moussa, Head of Conservation Laboratory
[email protected]
Heba El Menshawy, Head of Restoration Training Unit, Restoration Section, Manuscript Museum
[email protected]
Mahmoud Ezzat, Head of Cultural Relations and Information, Memory of Modern Egypt
[email protected]
Sherine Nabil, Restoration Specialist for Rare Books & Manuscripts
[email protected]
Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc
Country: Morocco
Collection Type: Library Public/ National Archive
Collection Size: 1,000-10,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980 Later than 1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Film-based negatives Glass plates positives and/or negatives Prints
Website: http://www.bnrm.ma/
Founded in 1924, the Bibliothèque Nationale du Royaume du Maroc (National Library of the Kingdom of Morocco, BNRM) has a significant photographic archive dating back to French Protectorate period. Its mission is to collect, process, preserve and disseminate the national documentary heritage of Morocco, and relevant foreign documentary collections, while facilitating access to its documentary collections and bibliographic information.
The BNRM coordinates in the national network of libraries, contributes to national and international scientific activities, and develops research programs related to its mission.
The special collections department became active in 2007, and includes in addition to the cartographic and antiques collections, a photographic collection of approximately 10,000 images, that represents monuments, customs and traditions, historical social and cultural events, etc. and dates back to the 1900s. These include glass-plate and plastic negatives, prints and black and white images. The department makes accessible these collections to researchers and organizes exhibitions on specific themes.
Contact Details:
Name: Naïma Keddane; Rahma Nagi ; Fatima ZohraBouallaga
Email: [email protected] / [email protected]/ [email protected]
Avenue IbnKhaldoun, Rabat, Morocco
+212 5377 71890
+212 537272300
Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT)
Country: Egypt
Collection Type: Public/ National Archive Research center
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980
Type of Material & Format: Digital files
Website: http://www.cultnat.org
The Photographic Memory of Egypt (PME) program at the Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural Heritage (CULTNAT) is focused on the documentation and preservation of Egypt’s tangible and intangible cultural heritage through photography.
The PME program’s primary activity is to digitize and document photographic collections of photographers as well as important institutional and private collections from the nineteenth and early twentieth-century. These digital collections gathered from local and international sources currently contain 20,000 images and continue to expand. They are to be made available for researchers and to the public through an online database.
The collection ranges from photojournalism and the archives of key photographers practicing in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s, to Orientalist photographs produced by photographic teams and studios operating in Egypt between 1880 and 1930, to vernacular images produced by local families documenting alternative social histories of Egyptian society from the 1920s to 1960s, to documentary photographs of key events in Egypt’s history as a nation.
The program is also engaged in a survey of photographic collections concerning Egypt and the development of a comprehensive timeline for the history of photographic practice in Egypt.
Publications based on the CULTNAT historic photograph collection include: Egypt 1920: The Photographs of Lehnert & Landrock (2006, CDRom); and Nubia Through Two Eras – The photographs of Antoune Albert (2008).
Contact Details:
www.cultnat.orgCULTNAT – Center for Documentation of Cultural and Natural HeritageBibliotheca AlexandrinaKm 28 Cairo-Alexandria desert roadSmart Village, Giza, Egypt+20-3545-322
Other:
Online database to be announced
Centre de Documentation Nationale
Country: Tunisia
Collection Type: Public/ National Archive
Collection Size: 10,000-50,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Digital files Prints
Website: http://www.cdn.nat.tn/
The Centre de Documentation Nationale (CDN) (National Documentation Center) is a governmental agency, and enjoys administrative and financial autonomy. The CDN holds a collection of around 10,000 black and white photographs, which are mostly copies taken from Tunis Africa Press Agency. These photographs document national and historial events during the 20th century, with various subjects such as Tunisia in the 20th century, the Husainid Dynasty, transportation and modernity, monuments and historical sites. The photograph library is open to the general public and is mostly consulted by researchers, journalists and historians. The collection is partly catalogued and digitized, and available on the CDN’s online database.
Contact Details:
Name: Mounir Alhaji, Director ; Kaouther Dridi, Collection representative
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +216704020; +216704002; +216704960
Address: Boulevard Mohamed Albouazizi – El Menzah 1004 – B.P 603 Ariana 2080 – Tunis
Iraq National Library and Archives
Country: Iraq
Collection Type: Public/ National Archive
Collection Size: 1,000-10,000
Period: 1860-1900 1900-1930 1930-1960 1960-1980
Type of Material & Format: Black and White images Colour images Digital files Film-based negatives Prints
The Iraq National Library Archives aims to collect, store, preserve and exhibit historical materials from Iraq. The photographic collection varies in size, type, format, and theme and mainly depicts political, social, sports and military events. The collection is made available to academics, students and researchers.
Contact Details:
Name: Nahid Fadhil Mahdai
Email: [email protected]