Egypte

1951 · 18507 — Cairo 1951. Album with approxmately 280 photographs; mounted with photo-corners only not glued down; many with identifiers on back dating the photograph and naming the participants; many photographs of social activities state and company dinners tennis matches other sporting activities where apparently these people went to be entertained in Cairo and Alexandria Egypt; a mixing of Middle-Eastern and Western-style events with some military and political leaders socially melding with the engineers and workers on this project; with views of the Egyptian countryside as well as of the plant; with a book in Arabic evidently promoting the new facility with black and white photographs; also including about 30-40 photographs of family outings evidently in Europe Italy and other places where family and friends may have had leave from building the project; various formats mostly snapshot size however there are many 3" x 5" and larger even a couple of 7"x 9" size; all contained in a faux leather album with a very worn spine and coming disbound; photographs clear well-taken and very well preserved recording a little-known aspect of Western business and industrial development in the Middle East with the participation of wives and families while a project was being completed and during the Nasser revolutionary era; We note that some of the equipment possibly for power generation bears the Babcock & Wilcox name and also equipment from Kohorn who were textile equipment manufacturers; these names are visible on the apparatus pictured in the accompanying brochure. Hard Cover. Very Good. Hardcover books