Ferdinand Marie De Lesseps Collection

Opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel: the first train, 1871. Creator: Unknown
Opening of the Mont Cenis Tunnel: the first train, 1871. Railway tunnel - 3.7 km (8.5 miles) in length - in the European Alps, linking Bardonecchia in Italy to Modane in France

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: workmen loading dromedaries, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: workmen loading dromedaries, 1869. 'The Engraving on our front page shows one or two groups of the fellahs, or native Egyptian labourers

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: the Pelusian Plain, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: the Pelusian Plain, 1869. 'The Maritime Canal is to extend from the newly-constructed artificial harbour of Port Said, on the Pelusian coast of the Mediterranean

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: the cutting near Chalouf, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: the cutting near Chalouf, [Egypt], 1869. 'The Chalouf cutting, which is situated near the south-eastern extremity of the Bitter Lakes

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: plan of the Harbour of Port Said, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: plan of the Harbour of Port Said and the Mediterranean entrance of the Canal, 1869. Map of '...the new artificial harbour [which] has been constructed by running

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: plan of the canal, with the small fresh-water canal, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: plan of the canal, with the small fresh-water canal, 1869. 'Vessels will be able to steam through, or be towed through

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Lake Timsah, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Lake Timsah, 1869. Lake Timsah '...[is] an inland basin...into which the waters of the Mediterranean have been admitted by the completion of the first half of

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Lake Menzaleh, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Lake Menzaleh, 1869. 'On leaving Port Said the canal enters Lake Menzaleh, through which the channel runs for twenty-nine miles

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: labourers removing earth, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal [in Egypt]: labourers removing earth, 1869. Workers on that '...great enterprise which now approaches its completion

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Ismailia and the fresh-water canal, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: Ismailia and the fresh-water canal, [Egypt], 1869. A sketch '...by our Special Artist...of the Fresh-Water Canal at Ismailia

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: dredges and elevators at work, 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal [in Egypt]: dredges and elevators at work, 1869. 'There is a different kind of mechanical apparatus, called the "drague a long couloir

The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: breakwater at Port Said, and Mediterranean entrance... 1869. Creator: Unknown
The Isthmus of Suez Maritime Canal: breakwater at Port Said, and Mediterranean entrance to the canal, 1869. View from the sea of the new port and western breakwater

Fetes of the Viceroy of Egypt at Cairo: regatta at Ismailia, on Lake Timsah, 1869. Creator: Unknown
Fetes of the Viceroy of Egypt at Cairo: regatta at Ismailia, on Lake Timsah, 1869. 'The Viceroy of Egypt celebrated the anniversary of his accession, on January 18

Canal de Suez; Le Nord-Est Africain, 1914. Creator: Unknown
Canal de Suez; Le Nord-Est Africain, 1914. From "Grande Geographie Bong Illustree", 1914

Ferdinand de Lessepps [sic], 1914. Creator: Unknown
Ferdinand de Lesseps, 1914. Designer of a Panama Canal project, and instigator of the construction of the Suez Canal

The recent inspection of the Panama Canal works by M De Lesseps, 1886. Creator: Unknown
The recent inspection of the Panama Canal works by M. De Lesseps - Reception of M De Lesseps in Cathedral Place, Panama, 1886. From "The Graphic. An Illustrated Weekly Newspaper Volume 33

Intermission of a premiere at the Comedie-Francaise, 1885. Creator: Edouard Joseph Dantan
Intermission of a premiere at the Comedie-Francaise, 1885

F. de Lesseps, c. 1876. Creator: Nadar
F. de Lesseps, c. 1876. Woodburytype, from the periodical "Galerie Contemporaine Litteraire, Artistique" (1876), volume 1

Portrait of Ferdinand Lesseps, 1850-1914. Creator: Unknown
Portrait of Ferdinand Lesseps, 1850-1914. Former attribution Felix Bracquemond

Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869, (c1871). Creator: Martin
Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869, (c1871). The Suez Canal in Egypt, designed by French engineer Ferdinand de Lesseps, opened on 17 November 1869

Port-Said - General view and Statue of Lesseps, c1918-c1939. Creator: Unknown
Port-Said - General view and Statue of Lesseps, c1918-c1939. From an album of postcards

Port Said. - Statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, c1918-c1939. Creator: Unknown
Port Said. - Statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps, c1918-c1939. From an album of postcards

Port Said. - Lesseps Statue and entrance to the Suez Canal - LL. c1918-c1939. Creator: Unknown
Port Said. - Lesseps Statue and entrance to the Suez Canal - LL. c1918-c1939. From an album of postcards

Port Said. - The entrance to the canal and Offices to the Company, c1918-c1939. From an album of postcards

Port-Said. - General view harbour. - LL. c1918-c1939. Creator: Unknown
Port-Said. - General view harbour. - LL. c1918-c1939. From an album of postcards

M. De Lesseps, c1882. Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps, (1805-1894), French diplomat. From British Battles on Land and Sea, Vol. IV, by James Grant

Ferdinand de Lesseps, French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, 1893
Ferdinand Marie, Vicomte de Lesseps (1805-1894), French diplomat and later developer of the Suez Canal, 1893. He was also holder of the Legion of Honor

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