Water carriers dipping water form the Nile River, Egypt – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: Water carriers dipping water form the Nile River, Egypt, preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Water carriers dipping water form the Nile River, Egypt
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Water carriers filling their jars from the Nile is the particular scene here, a daily task that had changed little along the river for centuries. The stereograph, a paired-image card meant to be viewed through a hand viewer for a three-dimensional effect, was issued by the Keystone View Company, a major American publisher of stereo cards that sold armchair travel views of distant places to home audiences in the early twentieth century. Its caption tracings point to geography and irrigation, a reminder that the river's water was the basis of Egyptian farming and village life. Viewers today can see how such cards presented the Nile as both a working waterway and a picturesque subject.
| Created / published | c1919. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Notes | Stereo copyrighted by the Keystone View Co. No. 9845. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Irrigation; Ph. Ind. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 734 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-171783 |
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