During his trip to Egypt, Elisofon visited Aswan and its surrounding, noted for ruins of temple by Ptolemy Euergetes & for Aswan High Dam. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for Life magazine and traveled to Africa from January 8, 1947 to end of June 1947.
Local Numbers:
Negative number Nile 1947 C-14, 12.
General:
Title source: Index card based on photographer's notes.
Local Note:
Typed index card reads, "M 6 Egy. Egypt. near Aswan. Bisharin feeding grain to his two camels. 6/1947. EE. neg.no. Nile 1947 C-14, 12." The card was written in 1977-79 by Archives staff using source provided by photographer.
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