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Photograph was edited for publication purposes Photograph caption dated July 18, 1960 reads, "Filming antiquities - Ralph Franklin, 32-year-old Van Nuys Bible student, has returned from the Middle East where he shot 6,000 feet of cinemascope film of antiquities and relics depicting Bible history. These soon will be destroyed by waters of Nile upon completion of dam at Awsan, Egypt."
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image
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1 photographic print :b&w ;21 x 26 cm. Photographic prints
University of Southern California.--Department of Cinema University of Southern California Cameras--California--Los Angeles Universities and colleges--California--Los Angeles College students--California--Los Angeles Egypt--In motion pictures Van Nuys (Los Angeles, Calif.) Valley Times Collection photographs
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