Egyptian locals with donkeys for hire, Luxor, 1908

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A crowd of Egyptian men offering donkeys for transport at Luxor. The photographer who took all of these pictures clearly loved the donkeys of Egypt, and the photograph is captioned "Donkeys waiting to be hired, Luxor." What the caption leaves out is the many local people who were reliant on the Western tourists flocking to Egypt. From an album of photos from a 1908 voyage to the Mediterranean on the CARPATHIA.