The making of mud bricks, Mellaui, Egypt

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Local Numbers: Negative number 72658 AC-14, 3A.
General: Title source: Index card based on photographer's notes.
Local Note: Typed index card reads, "Q 6 Egy. Egypt. Mellaui. Men making mud bricks. 3/1965. EE. neg.no. 72658 AC-14, 3A." 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: Industries; Vernacular 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: 1965

Archival Repository: Eliot Elisofon Photographic Archives, National Museum of African Art

Identifier: EEPA.1973-001, Item EEPA EENG 04893

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. Where noted, some images remain under the copyright of Life/Shutterstock. The collection is subject to all copyright laws.

Genre/Form: Black-and-white negatives; Negatives

Scope and Contents: "Soil was used for building in Egypt before the man-made mud bricks was developped. The very limited documentation on brick-making shows a way of working that seems to be identical to that of traditional brick-making of Ancient Egypt." [Vogel J., 1997: Encyclopedia of Precolonial Africa, Altamira Press]. This photograph was taken when Eliot Elisofon was on assignment for American Institute of Architects, directing the Egyptian portion of the documentary on Ancient Egypt, March 1965 and September 1965.