Holy Land Digital Image Collections

Bain, Robert E. M

The Island Rhoda (Roda)--Where the Child Moses was concealed [Graphic]

Earthly Footsteps of The Man of Galilee Being Three Hundred and Eighty-Four Original Photographic Views and Descriptions of the Places Connected with the Earthly Life of Our Lord and His Apostles Traced with Note Book and Camera showing where Christ was born, brought up, baptized, tempted, transfigured and crucified, together with the scenes of his prayers, tears, miracles and sermons, and also places made sacred by the labors of his apostles, from Jerusalem to Rome by Bishop John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D., Rev. James W. Lee, D.D., and R.E.M. Bain. London: A.M. Gardner & Co., Limited.

St. Louis, 1894.

1 photograph : b&w ; 25.4 x 18.1 cm ( 10 x 7.125 in).

Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Acts, vii:21.)--'And when he was cast out, Pharoah's daughter took him up, and nourished him for her own son.'--Acts, vii:21. We are told that the mother of Moses took an ark of bulrushes and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put her child into it, and laid the ark with the child in the flags by the brink of the Nile. It has been supposed that this place on the Nile was on the Island of Rhoda. Every tourist who goes to Cairo will have his attention called to this beautiful island in the Nile as the point in the river where Moses was concealed. The boats we see are wheat boats which have come from far into the interior of Egypt, loaded with wheat to sell in Cairo. The island is in the western suburbs of Cairo." See 5309BAI/LVii35CAJS (Voyager # 360980)

Boats moored on the banks of the Nile River

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Boats

Transportation

5117BAI/LVi35CAJS

CAJS Image Collection LVi BAI 5117 LVi35CAJS

The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Egypt

Cairo

Roda Island (Egypt)