[Travel Album through Asia, Southeast Asia, India, Africa, and Europe by Vera Talbot]

Egyptian Prisoners, Suez Canal

Prime Minister Golda Meir and Army Chief-of-Staff Haim Bar-Lev in an Air Force helicopter, Sinai

Soldier Falling, North Sinai

At all athlete contests women are obliged to sit by themselves. Of the 10,000 who attended the match the Ring Saw, only a few dozen were women.

[Egyptian soldiers captured by the Israelis, El Qantara, on the east shore of the Suez Canal]

Egyptian Mines, Northern Sinai

British Colonial Troops

Koran readers divide up their tips. These men recite passages from the Koran to during funerals in the City of the Dead in exchange for donation. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in Cairo's main cemetery.

A funeral procession heads to the cemetery in Cairo’s City of the Dead. One million people live, work, shop and got to school in and among the mausoleums of Ciaro's main cemetery.

Men carry a body to a grave where its buried in only a simple shroud in Cairo's City of the Dead. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums.

More than 200 boys work daily 8-hour shifts in an airless, makeshift aluminum pot factory in the City of the Dead. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums of Cairo’s City of the Dead.

Tomb, City of the Dead

Food stall, Kom Ombo

Woman carrying water, Thebes

Cairo

"Budapest" stronghold during an artillery barrage, Northern Sinai

Feluccas on the Nile

In Cairo, refugees from the housing shortage have laid claim to the city's main cemetery.

Desert

Egyptian camels and German Mercedes

Grave diggers repair an underground burial chamber in the City of the Dead. One million people live, work, shop and got to school in and among the mausoleums in Cairo's main cemetery.

75 year old Wataneya has lived in City of the Dead her whole life. In Cairo, refugees from the housing shortage have laid claim to the city's main cemetery. One million people live, work, shop and go to school in and among the mausoleums.