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1618Biblio235THE OPENING OF THE SUEZ CANAL. 13½ x 9½ inches. Albumen photograph mounted on paper annotated in pencil "Port Said 16 Nov 1869" in the lower left. Excellent condition. This photograph depicts the harbor and canal on the day of the opening of the Suez Canal the "greatest engineering feat of the nineteenth century" Smith. "Clearly the canal's opening festivities placed Egypt in a new way on the European cultural map" Haddad "Digging to India: Modernity Imperialism and the Suez Canal". The opening of the Suez Canal immediately transformed world trade. Connecting the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea allowed ships to sail between Europe and Asia without navigating around Africa. Trade between East and West grew at a record rate. "The construction and completion of the great Suez Canal . . . was one of the most remarkable engineering enterprises of the age one that will be an infinitely . . . important boon to commerce" W. H. Davenport Adams. "Men of the nineteenth century have pierced the Isthmus from sea to sea and these at least may stand in the shadow of the Pyramids and not be ashamed" Hamley.