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Alexandria, The Nile Canal
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Alexandria, The Nile Canal
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Photograph
Dr. J. Murray Jordan
Maker
American, 1860–1909
Alexandria, The Nile Canal
ca. 1910
Platinum print
Gift of the 3M Foundation, ex-collection Louis Walton Sipley, 1977
1977.0122.0004
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