Photo #: NH 106130
"Great White Fleet" World Cruise, 1907-1909
Some of the Fleet's Sailors riding camels, assisted by local
people, while bound for the Egyptian Pyramids during a sightseeing
tour, January 1909.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 106129
"Great White Fleet" World Cruise, 1907-1909
View on the River Nile, Egypt, during a sightseeing tour for
U.S. Navy Sailors at the time of the Fleet's January 1909 Suez
Canal transit.
Note the local sailing craft underway on the river and moored
to its banks.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 106131
"Great White Fleet" World Cruise, 1907-1909
The Pyramids at Giza, seen from a railroad car line during a
sightseeing tour for some of the Fleet's Sailors, January 1909.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 106132
"Great White Fleet" World Cruise, 1907-1909
Some of the Fleet's Sailors, accompanied by local guides on camels,
at the base of one of the Giza Pyramids, during an Egyptian sightseeing
tour in January 1909.
Note the Fez hats worn by the Sailors.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 101495
World Cruise of the "Great White Fleet", 1907-1909
Three Sailors pose atop camels at the base of the Sphinx, during the U.S. Atlantic Fleet's visit to Egypt, circa 4 January 1909.
Note fezzes worn by two dismounted Sailors, and the pyramid in the left distance.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 106133
"Great White Fleet" World Cruise, 1907-1909
The Sphinx and Pyramid of Pharaoh Khafre, photographed during
a sightseeing tour to Giza, Egypt taken by some of the Fleet's
Sailors in January 1909.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 106134
"Great White Fleet" World Cruise, 1907-1909
Some of the Fleet's Sailors pose at the Sphinx with their guides,
during a sightseeing tour to Giza, Egypt in January 1909.
In the right background is the Pyramid of Pharaoh Khafre. Another
of the Pyramids is in the left distance.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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Photo #: NH 106135
"Great White Fleet" World Cruise, 1907-1909
Some of the Fleet's Sailors pose at the Sphinx with their guides,
during a sightseeing tour to Giza, Egypt in January 1909.
Collection of Chief Quartermaster John Harold.
U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.
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