The photograph depicts two men bathe water buffalo on a section of the Nile River located in the new Liberation Province of the western Delta region. This province was carved out of the desert by water from the Rosetta branch ( Rashid, Far`, now) of the Nile as part of a land reclamation scheme under the Nasser government's agrarian reform program." [Eliot Elisofon, Laurens Van Der Post, 1964: The Nile, The Viking Press]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was working on "The Nile" project and traveled to Africa from March 14, 1961 to March 31, 1961, visiting Egypt.
Local Numbers:
M 6 EGY 202 EE 61
General:
Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
Local Note:
62165 5
Frame value is 30.
Slide No. M 6 EGY 202 EE 61
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