Suez Canal at Port Said, Egypt – Historic Reproduction
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Suez Canal at Port Said, Egypt
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The stereograph shows the Suez Canal at Port Said, the northern terminus where the waterway opens onto the Mediterranean, and it was issued as one of a series of stereo cards sold for home viewing in the 1890s. Cards like this were viewed through a hand stereoscope, so the two slightly offset images merged into a single three-dimensional scene. Port Said was built in the late 1850s to serve the canal's construction, and by the 1890s it had grown into a busy coaling and transit port where ships waited to enter the canal. The card's publisher, Strohmeyer & Wyman of New York, sold such views to American households eager to see distant places.
| Created / published | New York, N.Y. : Strohmeyer & Wyman, publishers, c1898. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 8481 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. No. 1. |
| Subjects | Suez Canal (Egypt)--1890-1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,264 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179838 |
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