File:American Colony, Ramallah peasant spinning wool 18417-020u.jpg

Summary

Hand-colored photographs of Jerusalem and Palestine (

)

Author

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer.

Title

Hand-colored photographs of Jerusalem and Palestine

Description

Photographs show people, buildings, and landscapes in Jerusalem and Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank).

(p. 1-35) Photographs include: Shepherds, Bethlehem street scene, Jaffa (Joppa) rocks in a storm, panorama of Jerusalem, row of olive trees, and in Jerusalem: a pack train outside Damascus Gate, city walls, David Street, Dome of the Rock, Via Dolorosa, arched street in Old City, and a monk reading book in Garden of Gethsemane.

(p. 35-73) Photographs include: Portrait of an "Arab Jew from Yemen," Ramallah peasant spinning wool (#0020), Ramallah woman in embroidered costume, village carpenter making plows, Bedouin man, shepherd with rod and staff, shepherd going before his flock, workers reaping barley harvest, reapers eating, camel caravan on Mt. of Olives, Dead Sea, Sea of Galilee, sunset by the ravine of the River Arnon, sheep grazing in Jordan Valley, and rough sea at Jaffa.

Date

1919

Medium

1 album (36 photographic prints, most hand-colored)

Dimensions

31 x 41 cm. (album)

Collection

Library of Congress

	Native name	Library of Congress
	Location	Washington, D.C. , United States of America
	Coordinates	38° 53′ 19″ N, 77° 00′ 17″ W
	Established	24 April 1800
	Website	loc.gov
	Authority file	: Q131454 VIAF: 151962300 ISNI: 000000012186288X ULAN: 500312782 LCCN: n78089035 NLA: 35304669 WorldCat

Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Accession number

CALL NUMBER: LOT 13846 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: _ _ _ _ _
DIGITAL ID: (digital files of original photos) ppmsca 18417 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18417; (digital files of album pages) ppmsca 18416 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18416
CONTROL #: 2007682813

Notes

Photographs were created by the photographers of the American Colony Photo Department, located in Jerusalem. Founded in the late 1890s by Elijah Meyers, the photo agency was headed during its heyday (ca. 1903-1933) by Lewis Larsson, whose staff photographers included Erik Lind, Lars Lind, Furman Baldwin, and G. Eric Matson. It transitioned into the Matson Photo Service around 1934, with photography by Matson, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others. John D. Whiting contributed periodically to the work of both agencies. For more information see: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/pp/matpchtml/matpcac.html .

Photographs in album are uncaptioned. Captions based on similar images in the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection.; Most of the photographs are hand-colored.; Blind stamp in bottom right corner on most photographs: American Colony, Jerusalem.; Inscription on first page of album: "To our precious Mother with love from all her children, Christmas, 1919." "Mother" is probably Anna Spafford, leader of the American Colony.; LOT title devised by Library staff.; Album unpaginated, album page numbers supplied by Library staff. Verso of each page is blank.; John D. Whiting's diaries, correspondence, and other materials are located in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Papers of John D. Whiting).; Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting.; Transfer; Manuscript Division; 2006; (DLC/PP-2006:051:30)
SUBJECTS: Spafford, Anna T.,--1842-1923--Associated objects.; Damascus Gate (Jerusalem)--1910-1920.; Arabs--Palestine--1910-1920.; Jews--Palestine--1910-1920.; Streets--Jerusalem--1910-1920.; Shepherds--Palestine--1910-1920.; Sheep--Palestine--1910-1920.; Mosques--Jerusalem--1910-1920.; Harvesting--Palestine--1910-1920.; Camels--Jerusalem--1910-1920.; Palestine--History--1799-1917.; Jaffa (Tel Aviv, Israel)--1910-1920.; Dead Sea (Israel and Jordan)--1910-1920.; Tiberias, Lake (Israel)--1910-1920.
FORMAT: Portrait photographs 1910-1920.; Photograph albums 1910-1920.; Photographic prints Hand-colored 1910-1920.
PART OF: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting

Source

This image is available from the United States Library of Congress's Prints and Photographs division
under the digital ID ppmsca.18417.
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Permission
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This work is from the Matson (G. Eric and Edith) Photograph collection at the Library of Congress. According to the library, there are no known copyright restrictions on the use of this work.
The only restrictions concern color lantern slides, which this photo is not.

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