fo012420: Katoenfabriek in Egypte
"Zwart-witfoto van arbeiders aan het werk in een katoenfabriek in Mehalla al Kobra (Egypte), 17 jumi 1949. De textielfabriek werkt volgens westerse technieken. Opschrift achteraan: Yankee style industrial miracle. Mehalla al Kobra, Egypt: on the fabulous Nile river, an industrial miracle is ta...
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Institution: | Amsab-Institute of Social History |
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1949-07-17
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Online Access: | https://hdl.handle.net/10796/FA1019F2-84C6-417D-9F3A-F4FFE5487D24 |
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author | Acme Newspictures |
author_facet | Acme Newspictures |
author_role | agentschap |
collection | Amsab-ISH Collections |
description | "Zwart-witfoto van arbeiders aan het werk in een katoenfabriek in Mehalla al Kobra (Egypte), 17 jumi 1949. De textielfabriek werkt volgens westerse technieken. Opschrift achteraan: Yankee style industrial miracle. Mehalla al Kobra, Egypt: on the fabulous Nile river, an industrial miracle is taking place. Egypt has built, and is constantly expanding one of the world's largest cotton mills into a workman's paradise. The Yankee style community with the last word in recreational, industrial, educational and living facilities was built at a cost of $ 60.000.000, and covers more than 150 acres. To bring about this Sahara Mirage, as European industrialists call it, Egypt sent a mission of over 50 technicians to the United States to study Yankee know-how. Over 5.000 looms provide work for 1500 men in this division of the mill. Three eight-hour shifts turn out one hundred million yards of Egypt's famous long staple cotton products annually. All of it is consumed by some 22.000.000 Egyptians. FULL TEXT AVAILABLE AT AMSAB-ISH" |
format | IMAGE |
id | FA1019F2-84C6-417D-9F3A-F4FFE5487D24 |
institution | Amsab-Institute of Social History |
physical | papier geheel: hoogte, 15 cm geheel: breedte, 23 cm fotografische afdruk |
publishDate | 1949-07-17 |
spellingShingle | fo012420: Katoenfabriek in Egypte Acme Newspictures |
thumbnail | http://iiifprod.amsab.be/iiif/3/image/fo012420/cover/full/200,/0/default.jpg |
title | fo012420: Katoenfabriek in Egypte |
url | https://hdl.handle.net/10796/FA1019F2-84C6-417D-9F3A-F4FFE5487D24 |