4" x 5" Negative. Image shows Kantara East Station. Hoefler's original description: "Kantara East Station. for Palestine Syria Trans Jordandian and Iraq. Denver African Expedition.
Donor:
Jacqueline Hoefler Troyer, Paul L. Hoefler, and Sharon Cordary
Collection place:
Suez vicinity, Egypt
Verbatim coll. place:
Kantara East Station
Maker or artist:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collector:
Paul L. Hoefler
Collection date:
1925 - 1926
Materials:
Cellulose nitrate film
Object type:
ethnography
Object class:
Black-and-white negatives
Production date:
1926
Accession date:
August 8, 1985
Department:
Still and motion photography
Comment:
Kantara East station, on the British-built Haifa to Cairo railway line. It was here that passengers, in both directions, used to cross the Suez Canal, on the long journey across the Sinai desert by train