This scrapbook--created by the Social Research Center at the American University in Cairo--documents life in Nubia through photographs. Topics include work, leisure, architecture, and agriculture among other subjects. Some pages are missing photographs.
A Victorian commonplace book (similar to a scrapbook), this one was written by a Robert Johnson, Junior, in 1846. Topics include a poem written about his brother's death, diary entries describing Ibrahim Pasha as well as a cricket match, fireworks, and performances. Several of the pages are written in shorthand.