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| Keywords: American Colony, Ramallah peasant spinning wool 18417-020u.jpg 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 1 album 36 photographic prints most hand-colored 31 x 41 cm album 1919 American Colony Jerusalem Photo Dept photographer 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 institution Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington D C 20540 USA LOC-image ppmsca 18417 PD-Matson Ramallah spinner Monks in Jerusalem Lewis Larsson | ||||
