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Professional letter writer
Sudan Times card No. H 21. There’s an abrasion on upper left front, to the left of the customer’s head. Grade: 4
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The Sirdar and his staff inspecting Omdurman
Sudan Times card No. G 5. Album remnants on reverse. Grade: 4
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Khartoum Palace Carving
Victoria Stationery & Book Stores card with photo by M. Venieris, and we only know what this is because of the written notation on the reverse. There is no caption or index number. Grade: 4
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The Prophet Birthday
Sudan Times card No. F 34. Grade: 4
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A Nile Murada, near Khartoum
Sudan Times card No. D 24. Grade: 4
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The Pool near Shekan, Kordofan
The full caption on this G.N. Morhig card No. 31 reads: “The Pool near Shekan, Kordofan, where Hicks Pasha’s Army was Annhilated, 5th Nov., 1883.” The writer’s notation on the reverse graphically explains a bit more. Grade: 4
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Nomad Arabs shelters at Erkowit
Sudan Times card No. H 11. Grade: 4
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Souvenir of Wad Medani
G.N. Morhig card No. 59. Grade: 4
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A Doleib Tree on the Dinder
Sudan Times card No. B 13. Grade: 4
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Native Chiefs and Soldiers in the Lado
Sudan Times “This is a Real Photo” card No. H 33. Pasted album remnant on the reverse. Grade: 5
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Young Girl, Omdurman
G.N. Morhig card No. 143, with written notation and album remnant on the reverse. Grade: 4
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Taking water, Khartoum
Sudan Times card No. D 23. Grade: 4
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The Khalifa’s Palace, Omdurman
G.N. Morhig card No. 25. The writer’s explanation on the reverse is classic for its day. Grade: 4
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Native Boys, Omdurman
G.N. Morhig card No. 368. Daddy chose this card to convey “Many Happy Returns of your Birthday” to his son Alfie Boy, whom we hope and trust saw the difference between his home in England and the home of these boys on the card. Grade: 4
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Native Canoes, Bahr el Ghazal
Sudan Times card No. D 2. Creasing on lower left corner. Grade: 4
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Arab Warriors, West Kordofan
G.N. Morhig card No. 245. Grade: 4
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Shulluks and Arabs near Renk.
G.N. Morhig card No. 272. Particular wear on lower right corner; typewritten message on reverse. As with others in this series, not postally used. Grade: 4
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Water Lift, Khartoum
G.N. Morhig card No. 356. Grade: 4
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A Lado Belle
Sudan Times (“This is a Real Photo”) card No. H 29, with written notation and album remnants on the reverse. Grade: 4
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How they carry children, Lado Enclave
G.N. Morhig card No. 391. Grade: 4
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A Baggara Family
Sudan Times card No. C 33. Grade: 4
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A typical Abadi
Sudan Times card No. F 13. The front is creased on upper left corner; the reverse, apart from faint written notation, has the green remnants of a former album. Grade: 5
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Hadandawa Youth
Sudan Times card No. F 12. Grade: 4
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A Dervish
Sudan Times card No. F 8. Grade: 4
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A Nuer chief
Sudan Times card No. C 16. Grade: 4
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Shulluk warriors
G.N. Morhig card No. 277. A little bit more aged than others in this series. Grade: 4
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A Shulluk of the White Nile
G.N. Morhig card No. 304, complete with the photographer’s (Morhig’s?) shadow. Grade: 4
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Shilluk Warriors on the Sobat
Sudan Times card No. C 7. Grade: 4
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A Niam Niam musician
Sudan Times card No. F 9. Grade: 4
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The musician of the tribe
Yes, but what tribe? Sudan Times card No. H 1. Grade: 4
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Sheikh in Khartoum
Victoria Stationery & Book Store, Khartoum, unnumbered card. Grade: 4
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A Nuer warrior
Sudan Times card No. F 10. Grade: 4
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Nuer warrior
Sudan Times card No. F 11. Grade: 4
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How women travel in the Sudan
G.N. Morhig card No. 247. Grade: 4
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A Khartoum belle
Sudan Times card No. C 39. Grade: 4
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Going marketing at Suakin
Sudan Times card No. H 18. Grade: 4
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The Front Avenue, Khartoum
G.N. Morhig card No. 334. This entry marks the end of our Morhig/Sudan Times and other publishers’ series of cards of The Sudan from the early 1900s. They were accumulated and sent by a British Army officer to his wife, son, and daughter to document his term of service. While he may not have been the keenest of observers, he took care to identify and explain what he could, in the absence of greater captions. If you–yes, we’re speaking directly to you–have a special interest in keeping these cards together as a collection, please let us know and we can work something out. For this card (and nearly all the others, due to the written notations on the reverse), Grade: 4
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Khartoum, Gordon Statue
At first we assumed this (unused) card showed a statue in London. But then we looked more closely, and the background is hardly London. Then we went to Wikipedia. General Gordon has an impressively long entry, and buried within that entry is this (slightly abridged): “The Corps of Royal Engineers, Gordon’s own Corps, commissioned a statue of Gordon on a camel. It was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1890 and then erected in Brompton Barracks, Chatham, the home of the Royal School of Military Engineering, where it still stands. Much later a second casting was made. In 1902 it was placed at the junction of St Martin’s Lane and Charing Cross Road in London. In 1904 it was moved to Khartoum, where it stood at the intersection of Gordon Avenue and Victoria Avenue. It was removed in 1958, shortly after the Sudan became independent. This is the figure which, since 1960, stands at the Gordon’s School in Woking.” So, to make it clear, this is a postcard from Sudan and has Khartoum attribution on the back. But the statue is, apparently, back in England. Grade: 1
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Republic of the Sudan
This unused card has no printing on the reverse, and someone’s name has been erased. We do not know, and cannot guarantee, that the card was ever in Sudan. Grade: 3