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Inauguration of the city of Port-Fouad (2nd part of the day)

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Inauguration of the city of Port-Fouad (2nd part of the day)

Collection title

Memory of the Suez Canal

ID

BIB00021

Source

Bibliotheca Alexandrina (EG)

First broadcast date

12/21/1926

Production year

1926

Abstract

The archives of the Suez Canal provide a fundamental interest, both from the point of view of the history of technology and engineering (the Suez Canal was the first to have been dug by mechanical means), and that of the naval and economic history. The archive shows: the Mahroussa berthed near the offices of the Canal company, in Port-Said, the statue of Ferdinand de Lesseps on the west pier, in Port-Said, the trade basin and the docks, the "Concord" destroyer entering the port, guests and delegations' arrival in Port- Fouad, arrival in Port-Fouad of Lord Lloyd, of M de Serionne, senior officer of the company, who waits for the guests. The king leaving the Mahroussa and landing on the dock of the offices of the canal company. Arrival of His Majesty in Port-Fouad. The arrival of the official tent. The new city of Port-Fouad and finally, the houses built by the company for its staff.

Type

video

Production companies

  • Association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal - Own production

Broadcaster

Bibliotheca Alexandrina

Audiovisual form

Library footage

Primary theme

Contemporary historical challenges 19th-20th c.

Secondary themes

  • Art, Culture and Knowledge / Live performances

Period of events

  • From 1925 to 1950

Map locations

  • Egypt - Lower Egypt - Port-Fouad

Original language

French

Media running time

14m9

Additional information

With the kind permission of the association of the memory of Ferdinand de Lesseps and the Suez Canal.
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