Object Details
- Local Numbers
- Negative number 62235 C-18, 16.
- General
- Title source: Index card based on photographer's notes.
- Local Note
- Typed index card reads, "A 6 Egy. Egypt. El Haisa. Interior of home of Achwad Baleb Youssef (with pipe). 3/1961. EE. neg.no. 62235 C-18, 16." The card was written in 1977-79 by Archives staff using source provided by photographer.
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Collection Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- Place
- Africa
- Egypt
- Topic
- Portraits
- Traditional architecture
- Photographer
- Elisofon, Eliot
- See more items in
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection
- Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Egypt
- Extent
- 1 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 35mm.)
- Date
- 1961
- Archival Repository
- Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
- Identifier
- EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EENG 00595
- Type
- Archival materials
- Negatives (photographic)
- Black-and-white negatives
- Negatives
- Collection Citation
- Eliot Elisofon Field Collection, EEPA 1973-001, Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
- Collection Rights
- Permission to reproduce images from the Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives must be obtained in advance. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.
- Genre/Form
- Black-and-white negatives
- Negatives
- Scope and Contents
- The photograph depicts the interior of home of Achwad Baleb Youssef. During his trip to Egypt, Elisofon visited the town of El Haisa, overlooking former Philae Island in Nile River; most monuments and houses (including Achwad's family house) were partially flooded with construction of old Aswan Dam & Aswan High Dam. 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.
- Collection Restrictions
- Use of original records requires an appointment. Contact Archives staff for more details.
- Record ID
- ebl-1536870822481-1536871013698-4
