The Suez Canal, Egypt – Antique 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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This rare historic photograph captures The Suez Canal, Egypt in remarkable detail. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The Suez Canal, Egypt
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Few places on a 1900s stereograph carried as much weight as the Suez Canal, the waterway that opened in 1869 and linked the Mediterranean to the Red Sea. This card, issued by the Universal Photo Art Co. of Philadelphia around 1904, shows the canal as American viewers of the period would have known it: a distant route to Asia and Africa, shaped by British and French commercial interests and cut through the Egyptian desert. Stereo cards like this were meant for a parlor stereoscope, where two slightly offset views fused into a single image with depth. Their wide popularity in the early twentieth century made them one of the main ways ordinary households saw the world beyond home.
| Created / published | Phila., U.S.A. : C.H. Graves, c1904. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph. |
| Genre | Stereographs 1900-1910.Photographic prints 1900-1910. |
| Notes | H42784 U.S. Copyright Office. Universal Photo Art Co., Philadelphia. No. 100. |
| Subjects | Suez Canal (Egypt)--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,096 × 3,270 px · prints to 14 × 11 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-179840 |
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