The album is the continuation from the third Chapman album and is in very good condition. It also has a removable beige cloth (linen) cover with dark blue edges; an embroidered roman numerical IV is found in the bottom right corner of the top cover and on the spine portion; the top cover has `GC` (George Chapman) embroidered in dark blue; the album pages are edge-gilded; the album has a hard grain Morocco red leather binding; marble paper, in contrast to the silk-finished paper in the previous albums, is used on the inside of the album covers; the album has cloth joints. The album contains a single paper sheet of reduced facsimile of an illustrated birth-day address for the 80th birthday of Sir Sandford Fleming (January 7, 1907); signatures of family members, including those by Ethel and George Chapman, appear on this card along with a short address and chronological time-line of Sandford Fleming's personal and public life.
The album contains photographs that continuously document the activities and personnel of the 1st and 2nd Battalion, the Buffs, East Kent Regiment, in Britain (located around Dover), it also presents various views of the region. In addition, the album contains an extensive visual travel imagery consisting of photographs of various places while in Canada (Quebec City and Ottawa), France, Italy, and Egypt - images of the latter are meticulously described. Chapman himself is depicted throughout the album with an inscription Self; Ethel is captured as E.J.C. (Ethel Jean Chapman).
The photographs are of various sizes and processing techniques; they are in chronological order covering the time period from February 1908 to February 1909; the majority of the photographs are dated; all (except a few) photographs have captions; images depicting Egypt are (or can be) of particular interest, for their captions are very descriptive and include extensive (occasionally anecdotal) narrative.
The following places, events, objects, and people are depicted in photographs found in the album:
Places
Canada
-Quebec: various views of the city from Levis and Chateau Frontenac Hotel; Chateau Frontenac; Dufferin Gate; Eastern Walls; Parliament Buildings; Lower Champlain Street & Citadel; Sous Le Cap: 'an old Street beneath the Cliff and Citadel'
Britain
- Windsor Castle (multiple exterior views)
- Roman Walls at Silchester
- Beaulieu Abbey Cloisters
- Brighton: Hotel Metropole & Grand Hotel; The Front from the East Pier
- View from Top of Hindhead looking East towards Chiddingfold
- Wellington Avenue, Aldershot
- Great Pond & Old Pond Hotel, Frensham
- Officers Club & Cricket Ground, Aldershot
- Hampton Court: Bridge over River Thames; Entrance to the Palace;
- Swan Hotel on R. Thames in Streatly
- Pangbourne
- Sonning
- Dover; view from Admiralty Harbour
- Henley: Red Lion Hotel & Bridge
France and Italy
- Arcachon: the `Grande Dune`
- Marseilles: Views of ; Church of Notre Dame de la Garde
- Naples: Bertolinis Palace Hotel; Views of
Egypt
- The Nile & village of Ezbet Abou Saleh
- Menieh: views of
- Beni-Hasan: Tomb of Amenemhat; Tomb of Kheiti; Speos Artimedos, 'a small temple sacred to Pekhet & Cats. When discovered it was full of Mummified Cats which were transported in 3 ship loads to Liverpool but eventually became manure';
- Assiut: Chief Minaret & Mosque; Panorama of; Market Place; Temple of Dendera (int. & ext. views)
- Karnak (various): Temples, 'Hall of Columns', Ave. of Sphinxes, Sacred Lake etc.
- Luxor: Temple of Luxor (multiple ext. & int. views)
- Thebes: Temple of Kurna (various views); Tomb of Rameses VII at Biban al Muluk; Tombs of the Kings; Temple of Deir el Bahri (multiple views); Great Hypostyle Hall (multiple views); Temple of Ramesseum; Tomb of Sennofer (int.view)
- Esna: Temple of Khnum (int. view)
- Edfu: Temple of Horus (ext. & int. views)
- Temple of Kom Ombos (various views)
- Views of the River Nile
- Assuan: Corn Market; River Front & Grand Hotel; View of Nile with the Savoy Hotel; Cataract Hotel & Roman Fort; Temple of Isis on Phylae (multiple); The Dam (various views and description)
- Abydos Temple: Hypostyle Hall, 'The List of the Kings', various mural relief depictions, etc.
- Cairo: Panoramic View; Mosque of Sultan Hasan; Statue of Ibrahim Pasha & Continental Hotel; Mosque of Mohammed-Ali (various views); Views of various streets, Mosques, parts of the city, etc.; Savoy Hotel; Gezireh Palace Hotel; Shepherds Hotel; Pyramids of Gizeh (various views); Pyramid of Cheops; Sphinx (various views); Mena House Hotel; Sakkara: The 'Step' Pyramid
- Memphis: 'modern village'
- Alexandria: Savoy Palace Hotel; Mosque Gamia Shiek; Pompey`s Pillar; Gamia el Miri; Bedrachein Station ('where we both started & ended our Egyptian Trip')
Events
Jocelyn waking up in her sleigh, Ottawa; Country Sleighs arriving at the Market; Car Races at Brooklands (various images); 1st The Buffs marching to `Caesars Camp` for Field Day; H.M. The King `Caesars Camp` watching the Sham Fight, Aldershot (18 May 1908); Muster for the Opening Run of the 1st The Buffs Cycle Club; Polo at Aldershot, Wellington, Hurlingham; Boulters Lock on Ascot Sunday, Maidenhead; '1st B. The Buffs marching past Field Marshall Sir George White on Laffans Plain on Kings Birthday Parade' (26 June 1908); Winchester Pageant at Wolvesley Castle; (The Warrior Maidens); Crowds in Wellington Ave. after Church Parade, Aldershot; 1st Buffs Regimental Sports, Aldershot: '3 Legged Race', 'Running Maze', Pipers of the Scots Guards at Ranelagh, Cycle Club of the Buffs arriving at the Hart Hotel, Windsor; Frensham: Arrival of the Buffs during 2nd Division Training, Troops of the 2nd Division bathing; Dover Pageant (various scenes, 1 Aug. 1908); Canterbury Cricket Week, Kent vs. Sussex; The Air Ship `Nulli Secundus II` being towed to a suitable starting point; Ethel sculling on Frensham Pond; Ethel canoeing on Basingstoke Canal; Ethel tobogganing on a cushion down the Dune, Arcachon; Camels carrying Nile 'Soil' inland, Assiut; Scene with native weekly market at Luxor; Arrival of Cooke`s party at the Temple of Kurna, Thebes; In the valley of Biban al-Muluk on the way to the Tombs of the Kings, Thebes; An American Egyptologist Davis finding an Ancient Kings Tomb, Thebes (13 Jan. 1909); Self on Donkey & donkey boy at the Ramesseum, Thebes; Self on camel in the act of getting up; Bisharin dance; 'Having passed through the Cataract we drifted down stream while the crew sang,' (Nile); Camels carrying Sugar Cane at Baliana; Gayassa sailing up the River near El Samata, Nile; Arrival of Cooke's Tourist Party at the Coptic Convent at Araba el Madfonch; 'Our chief Drajoman pointing out the beauties of some Egyptian ladies!!!'; 'Camels waiting at the Spinx for Tourists who usually mount them to be photographed as a proof of their visit to Egypt'; 'Ethel & Self at the Spinx 'doing' the Pyramids etc.'; 'Self on top of 1st Pyramid, 452 ft high'; A man praying; Moving through the Palm groves of Mit Rahineh to Memphis; Self seated on one of the 2 Spinxes at Pompey's Column, Alexandria.
Objects
Quebec: 'House in which the French General Montcalm held his last Council of War'; Wolfe's Monument on Plains of Abraham; 'Monument to the French Admiral Champlain, founder of the Modern Canada'; Representative Indian Statues by Herbert on Parliament Buildings; Our train at Louisville; C.P.R. Engine (135 tons) at MacAdam June, N.S.; Mrs. Ravenhill's House on the Cornwallis West's Estate, Milford; 'Stocks' at Shalford; Officers Mess Room, 1st B. The Buffs, Badajos Barracks; 'Blackball' (horse); Typical Street in Naples; Typical Nile Boats; Typical luggage cart & porters, Alexandria; A large Cargo Gayassa, Nile; Cook's Tourist Steamer-`Rameses the Great` at Menieh; 'Egyptian (1909 AD) holding upper part of an Ancestor (300 BC)'; Sanctuary of the Temple of Kurna, Thebes; Chalet Hatasu or Cooke's Rest House, Thebes; Bazaar & market place at Esna; The Ancient Nilometer ('a device used for almost 2000 yrs to register the rise and fall of the River'), Assuan; Highly coloured Gayassas (boats), Assuan; Bisharin shelter; Assuan Dam on River Nile (various views); A camel loaded with sugar cane, Thebes; A Gayassa with cargo of jars, Nile; Grove of date palms at El Teberi, Nile; A Gayassa & the Pyramids of Dashur, Nile; Cairo: 'Int. of the famous `Blue Mosque', Egyptian Mountain Battery; A Nilometer dating back to 716 ad on Roda Island; A Sakka or typical water carrier with his Goat skin; A bead seller; 'A gold necklace pendant found in Queen Neferari`s Tomb at Biban al Binet & now in the Museum Cairo'; Shops in the Bazaar; The Mummy of Seti I; Two Fellahin & a native plough (Mihrat); Arab Cemetery and the Pyramids, Gizeh; Inundated fields between Sakkara & Memphis; Colossus of Rameses II, Memphis.
People
Ethel Jean Chapman (Fleming): depicted throughout the album; Lil & The Exshaw of Exshaw; Paul & Hugh Fleming; Sir Sandford Fleming; International & Exshaw Portland Cement (listed); John Crookenden; Jocelyn (Chapman); J.D. Philips; A.B. Thomson; H.G. Sahler; T. Wheler; Miss Jameson; Arabs & Egyptians at Cook's Landing Stage at Menieh; Constable of the Imperial Egyptian Mt. Police; A Typical water Seller & his Goats Skin; Bisharin children, girls, men; M.J. & Mde VanHoergarden; Mrs Hyslop; Max Singer; Miss MacLeod; M. Grisard; Mr & Mrs Griffen; Mr Dennett; Penrose Green; Tannaos (guide); Egyptian women with water jars, Luxor; Mohammed Elewa, 'Chief drajoman on Cooke`s Rameses the Great and the oldest serving drajoman on the Nile'
