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Ferry Boat on Nile River

Riverfront, full view of what is believed to be a Sudanese mail boat or ferry between Shellal and Wadi Halfa. May be stopped at Abu Simbel historic site. Photograph taken as part of a trip author and diplomat Charles Thayer and his wife Cynthia took to Egypt and Sudan in 1961. Photos of the safari in Sudan intended for a possible magazine article. Original negatives are in the Harry S. Truman Library collection.