Suez Canal - railroad station, 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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Suez Canal - railroad station, Egypt comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Suez Canal - railroad station, Egypt
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This view is catalogued as a railroad station at the Suez Canal in Egypt, a site where rail and waterway travel met at the isthmus connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea. Rail service reached Suez in the late 1850s, before the canal opened in 1869, so the station served passengers and freight moving between Cairo and the canal's ports. The negative comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the archive of the Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that distributed news and travel images in the early twentieth century. The record gives no exact date, so the picture is best read as a glimpse of a busy transit hub in that era.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Temp. note: Batch one loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,735 × 4,141 px · prints to 19 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-1621 |
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