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The great Nile Bridge at Cairo open for the passage of the daily fleet of cargo boats--(N.E.) Egypt – Antique Wall Art

The great Nile Bridge at Cairo open for the passage of the daily fleet of cargo boats--(N.E.) Egypt, New York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1904. — historic photograph
The great Nile Bridge at Cairo open for the passage of the daily fleet of cargo boats--(N.E.) Egypt, New York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1904.. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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: The great Nile Bridge at Cairo open for the passage of the daily fleet of cargo boats--(N.E.) Egypt, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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The great Nile Bridge at Cairo open for the passage of the daily fleet of cargo boats--(N.E.) Egypt

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Here the river traffic, not the bridge, is the story: the span has been swung open to let a line of cargo boats pass through to the Nile. Drawbridges like this one let the city's road and rail crossings coexist with the riverborne trade that supplied Cairo with grain, building materials, and goods moving up and down the river. The stereo card was issued by Underwood & Underwood, a New York firm that sold stereoscopic views of distant places to American households around 1904, when armchair travel was popular. Its "No. 15" numbering shows it was one of a series, and the pairing of the bridge with the boats gives a sense of how the river and city worked together.

Created / publishedNew York : Underwood & Underwood, publishers, c1904.
Medium1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph.
GenreStereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910.
NotesNo. 15.
SubjectsDrawbridges--Egypt--Cairo--1900-1910. Boats--Egypt--Cairo--1900-1910.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 762 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165510

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