Souper, J.L.
Introduction
J. L. Souper
Arrangement

Catalogue
1. Photographic Material
(i) Albums
(ii) Loose photographs
Reference code: GB-0033-SAD
Title: Souper, J.L.
Dates of creation: ca. 1921-1941
Extent: 1 box
Held by: Durham University Library, Archives and Special Collections
Created by: J. L. Souper
Language: English

J. L. Souper

(fl. 1921-1941)

1921-1923 Lecturer, Gordon College, Khartoum
1924-1927 Assistant District Engineer, Public Works Department, Wad Medani
1927 Assistant District Engineer, Public Works Department, Khartoum
1928 Divisional Engineer, Public Works Department, Khartoum
1929-1936 Lecturer, Gordon College, Khartoum
1937-1941 Principal, School of Engineering, Khartoum


Arrangement

1. Photographic Material
(i) Albums
(ii) Loose Photographs

Accession details

Presented by Mrs. D. K. Souper, 1986

Catalogue
1. Photographic Material
(i) Albums
SAD.868/1/1-96
[n.d. ca. 1921-1941]
Album of photographs, principally of Khartoum and environs. Most are unlabelled, but a few have detailed captions on the back, not visible in the album, which are repeated verbatim below within quotation marks:
SAD.868/1/1
All Saints' Cathedral, Khartoum, before the construction of the bell tower
SAD.868/1/2
Gordon College quadrangle
SAD.868/1/3
The ‘Yellow Peril’. “Senior government officials' bachelor quarters. I still keep my rooms in here though they are stacked with Addison's furniture. The lumps on the top contain the stairways to the roof. The trees on the footpath are lebbak”
SAD.868/1/4
Tennis court at government official's house
SAD.868/1/5-6
Gordon College
SAD.868/1/7-8
Interior views of All Saints' Cathedral, Khartoum
SAD.868/1/9
The Gordon statue
SAD.868/1/10,13,22,25
The Gordon statue at sunset
SAD.868/1/11
“In the Sudan Club gardens: the trench on the right hand lower corner to the right of the walk is for irrigation. Every third day water is pumped from the Nile into these channels which are dammed at certain desired points till the water flows over the top and spreads over the grass and flower beds. The flowers round the foot of the date palm are petunias”
SAD.868/1/12
Tukl
SAD.868/1/14-15,17-18,20,27-28
Views of the Nile at Khartoum at sunset
SAD.868/1/16
Khartoum skyline at sunset showing minarets of mosques
SAD.868/1/19
Palm trees at sunset
SAD.868/1/21,23
Governor-General's palace, Khartoum
SAD.868/1/24
Tebeldi tree and date palm
SAD.868/1/26
The Kitchener statue at sunset
SAD.868/1/29-31
The palace and gardens
SAD.868/1/32
Inspection of guard of honour, probably at the palace
SAD.868/1/33-34
Kitchener School of Medicine
SAD.868/1/35
Flooded street
SAD.868/1/36
Government official's house and garden
SAD.868/1/37-40
Pyramids at Meroë
SAD.868/1/41,46,48
Columns at Massawarat es Sufra
SAD.868/1/42,44
Amon temple, Meroë
SAD.868/1/43
Amon temple, Naqa
SAD.868/1/45
Egypto-Roman kiosk at Naqa
SAD.868/1/47
Lion temple, Naqa
SAD.868/1/49-50
Items excavated, possibly at Meroë
SAD.868/1/51
Felucca on the Nile
SAD.868/1/52
Philae
SAD.868/1/53
S.G.R. engine and carriages at station
SAD.868/1/54
Nile steamer Sudan
SAD.868/1/55
Ferry approaching landing point
SAD.868/1/56
Tram engine and open carriages at station
SAD.868/1/57
Fortifications at Omdurman
SAD.868/1/58
Ruins of the Mahdi's tomb
SAD.868/1/59
Tram passing along river bank
SAD.868/1/60
The mosque, Khartoum
SAD.868/1/61,63
Archway and flags, with crowds possibly celebrating the `Id
SAD.868/1/62
Suq
SAD.868/1/64
Street seller
SAD.868/1/65
Ruins of Khartoum military hospital after the 1924 mutiny
SAD.868/1/66
Habub approaching
SAD.868/1/67-68
Lion cub feeding
SAD.868/1/69
Excavation of irrigation channel
SAD.868/1/70-72
Filled irrigation channel
SAD.868/1/73
Donkeys with panniers
SAD.868/1/74
Feluccas at the river's edge
SAD.868/1/75-76,78
Shaduf
SAD.868/1/77,79,87
Saqiyah
SAD.868/1/80
Camels watering from irrigation channel
SAD.868/1/81
Man making `anqarib
SAD.868/1/82
Tailor at work in suq
SAD.868/1/83-86,88
Suq
SAD.868/1/89
“My garden: the greenest in Khartoum. Marigolds in the four plots. The surrounds of ‘Sudanese box’ are all new since my return. Zinnias in long border west of tennis court. Other border just resown in 3 kinds of cosmea”
SAD.868/1/90-91
J.L.Souper's [J.L.S.] garden
SAD.868/1/92
Group of British officials
SAD.868/1/93-96
British official, possibly J.L.S.
SAD.868/2/1-96
[n.d. ca. 1921 - 1941]
Album of photographs of north and south Sudan, taken during J.L.S.'s service and including Khartoum, Sennar Dam and antiquities in Northern Province. Many are unidentified.
SAD.868/2/1-8
Aerial views of Khartoum, including the palace and Blue Nile bridge
SAD.868/2/9-12
Unidentified buildings, probably Khartoum
SAD.868/2/13
Brick building with lean-to
SAD.868/2/14
Group of men at quarry
SAD.868/2/15
Group of tukls
SAD.868/2/16
Encampment of tents at foot of hill
SAD.868/2/17-44
Construction of Sennar Dam
SAD.868/2/45-46
Jabal Kassala
SAD.868/2/47
Sheep grazing (Karakashian Bros.)
SAD.868/2/48
Cattle camp
SAD.868/2/49-51
Unidentified river views
SAD.868/2/52
British man and woman sitting in front of tukl, possibly rest house
SAD.868/2/53
Tukl
SAD.868/2/54
Felucca
SAD.868/2/55-56
Palm grove
SAD.868/2/57-58
Camels laden with firewood and fodder
SAD.868/2/59
Group of northern women
SAD.868/2/60
Herds of goats and camels
SAD.868/2/61
Animals in a zariba outside village of tukls
SAD.868/2/62
Herd of goats
SAD.868/2/63
Women in suq
SAD.868/2/64
Suq, Dar `Aqil, Fung
SAD.868/2/65-66
Arab girls dancing
SAD.868/2/67
Men beating drums
SAD.868/2/68
Shilluk men at Kodok
SAD.868/2/69,71
Police camel being ferried over the Nile
SAD.868/2/70
Men in ambach canoe
SAD.868/2/72
Camel-mounted police
SAD.868/2/73
Remains of the Meroitic temple at Naqa
SAD.868/2/74-75
Large stone statues lying on the ground, Argo Island
SAD.868/2/76
Large carved tableau erected outside Gordon College
SAD.868/2/77-84
Red Sea Hills
SAD.868/2/78
“View of the pass from Gebel es Sitt. This is only about 2¼ miles from Erkowit”
SAD.868/2/80
View from the hut verandah northwards, euphorbia in foreground
SAD.868/2/81-82
Two Handanduwah boys
SAD.868/2/84
“Hut occupied by T.A. and myself at Erkowit”
SAD.868/2/85-94
Unidentified antiquities, probably Egypt
SAD.868/2/93
Colossi of Memnon at Thebes
SAD.868/2/95
“Typical native village on the Nile, built of mud. Lines and proportions beautiful. Trees are date palms. Boats are feluccas. Desert immediately behind”.
SAD.868/2/96
Sabaloka gorge, south entrance (early morning)
(ii) Loose photographs
SAD.868/3/1-3
1931 Aug 24
Aerial photographs of the dayms flooded area of Khartoum, taken by the R.A.F at 1,000 feet
SAD.868/3/4
Tebeldi tree
SAD.868/3/5
Saqiyah on the Nile, driven by bullocks
SAD.868/3/6
Shaduf (similar to 868/1/76 above)
SAD.868/3/7
Grove of date palms
SAD.868/3/8
Loading camel on to felucca (similar to 868/2/69 above)
SAD.868/3/9
Cattle watering in main Nile
SAD.868/3/10
Using oxen to dredge out earth tank to hold rain water, west of Beila
SAD.868/3/11-12
Sennar dam
SAD.868/3/13-14
Jabal Kassala
SAD.868/3/15
Postcard of Shilluk warriors, Upper Nile (G.N. Morhig no. 193)