When Vincent was growing up he was very lucky to travel all over the world. His father worked for the United Nations, and his mother worked for Iberia Airlines. This meant that if there was room stand-by on a plane, they could travel anywhere. They went to Asia, South America, Europe and in 1979 they went to Egypt. A few weeks after this trip Vincent was back at MIT, and I was matriculating at Lesley College. We met each other just about at this time.
If you have ever been to Cairo, or seen a documentary, you can tell that these sites have changed a lot in the past forty years. The photos are faded not due to poor quality film, but because they were stored in Puerto Rico where the intense heat, humidity, and ocean air unfortunately caused degradation.
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo, "1979 Egypt Trip - Vintage Family Photo Friday", Nutfield Genealogy, posted August 23, 2019, ( https://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2019/08/1978-egypt-trip-vintage-family-photo.html: accessed [access date]).
These are so great. My grandfather worked for the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in the 30s and went on a four month tour of their digs and other sites in the Near East with my grandmother in 1938. He developed about 100 of the 1200+ photos he took and put them in an album and they are priceless, but I can't wait to have the time and money to scan the rest of the negatives which I found in dad's basement a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteThere are many photographers are available for vintage family photo in Cairo .These are so great. Thanks for sharing the memories of your beautiful journey. Yes, Egypt is a place which is full of natural beauties with amazing hill stations. For this reason, most of the people are interested to enjoy their vacation in this place. Last year I had gone to Egypt with my family in the month of August. We visited all the beautiful places like pyramid, Cairo etc. Thanks to ask Aladdin help us for travelling in Egypt and providing good service.
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