Nilometer on the Blue Nile riverbank, Wad Madani, Sudan
odd: label: Local Numbers
content: Z 7 EGY 3.1 EE 47
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content: Title is provided by EEPA staff based on photographer's notes.
label: Local Note
content: Frame value is 10.
label: Local Note
content: Slide No. Z 7 EGY 3.1 EE 47
name: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
label: Collection Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
place: label: Place
content: Africa
label: Place
content: Sudan
creator: label: Photographer
content: Elisofon, Eliot
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content: Eliot Elisofon Field collection
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content: Eliot Elisofon Field collection / Sudan
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Negatives (photographic) (b&w, 35mm.)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1947
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EECL 26450
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Negatives (photographic)
label: Type
content: Negatives
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content: Negatives
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: "A Nilometer on the Blue Nile at Wad Medani, ninety miles from Khartoum. Sudanese gauge the height of the Nile by the steps of the Nilometer and from this predict the height of the annual floods. The ancient Egyptians also built Nilometers, usually bu cutting lines on a smooth rock on the river's edge." [Elisofon E., Van Der Post L., 1964: The Nile, The Viking Press].
label: Scope and Contents
content: "Sudan is the largest country on the African continent. One major topographical feature of Sudan is the Nile river (Nīl, Nahr an-). The White Nile (Abyad, Al-Bahr al-)goes into the country through the Uganda border and meets the Blue Nile at a point near Khartum, and forms the Nile proper. the Blue Nile (An-Nīl al-Azraq ) rises in the Ethiopian plateau , and flows across east central Sudan. Wad Madani is the capital of Al Jazirah state in east-central Sudan. It grew rapidly following the 1925 Gezira Scheme to stimulate local economic development. The beaches of Wad Madani are situated on the eastern river bank of the Blue Nile." 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.