Explorer (D.G. Hogarth) in quarantine at Kahramanmaraş (ancient Marash)

Department Archive
Collection BSA SPHS Image Collection
Reference No. BSA SPHS 03/1304.3344
Level Item
Description Glass lantern slide, standard 3.25 x 3.25 inch square.
Dimensions 8 x 8 cm
Place Marash
Dates 1891
Donor/Creator Munro, Mr John Arthur Ruskin
Project Hogarth Travels 1891-1904
Scope and Content Part of a group of images from the 1891 travels of Hogarth and Munro in Anatolia as described in Hogarth's 1896 book, A Wandering Scholar in the Levant. The original description in the SPHS catalogue reads: "Explorer in quarantine". The 'explorer' is probably D.G. Hogarth reclining in the tent.
Notes Date attributed to the year in which Hogarth and Munro explored parts of Anatolia - see A Wandering Scholar in the Levant (1896) and 'Modern and Ancient Roads in Eastern Asia Minor'. Supplementary Papers of the Royal Geographical Society 3(5), 1893. The 'explorer' is D.G. Hogarth reclining in the tent, supported by the initials D.G.H. in the 1913 slide catalogue. The location at Marash (Kahramanmaraş) is based on p. 644 in Hogarth & Munro, 1893 article in the Supplementary Papers of the Royal Geographical Society. The image has been slightly cropped from the negative.
Related records [BSA SPHS 01/1305.3344], Explorer (D.G. Hogarth) in quarantine at Kahramanmaraş (ancient Marash), 1891
Reference 1913 JHS 33: Catalogue of Slides. 20.SPHS 3344. Link to article