Caption:
Photograph - Illustration of the Suez Canal, Egypt, circa 1880, One of four albumen silver photographs depicting the Suez Canal, circa 1880s. The Suez Canal is a part natural and part man-made sea-level waterway through eastern Egypt connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas. While primitive channels in the region had been used by shipping from ancient times, the modern canal route was constructed over a 10 year period by the French-based Suez Canal Company