A bride dressed up for her wedding while her friends are happily singing, [United Arab Republic] – Vintage Print
![A bride dressed up for her wedding while her friends are happily singing, [United Arab Republic], [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/a5/a58d50bf8fb5-L.webp)
(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 bride dressed up for her wedding while her friends are happily singing, [United Arab Republic] comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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A bride dressed up for her wedding while her friends are happily singing, [United Arab Republic]
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A bride is shown being dressed for her wedding while her friends sing together, a scene that centers on the women's shared celebration rather than the ceremony itself. The caption places it in the United Arab Republic, the name Egypt used from 1958 to 1971 after its union with Syria, which was briefly joined under that title until Syria withdrew in 1961. The record gives no date or photographer, so the caption card and the Egypt tracing are the only clues to its origin. Pre-wedding gatherings of women, with singing and dressing rituals, were a common part of such celebrations in the region.
| Created / published | [no date recorded on caption card] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Notes | This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Weddings; Egypt. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,116 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-143425 |
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