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Collection Photo, Print, Drawing Stereograph views of Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria

About this Item

Title

  • Stereograph views of Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria

Summary

  • Photographs show views of cities, towns, and villages; daily life and occupations in urban and agricultural settings; prominent monuments and landmarks; ancient buildings; the landscape and the natural environment; and religious rites and processions in places throughout Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank), Syria, and Lebanon. Cities and towns depicted in Palestine include Jaffa, Jerusalem, Siloam, Bethlehem, Bethany, Nablus, Nazareth, Sychar, Shiloh, Tiberias, Capernaum, and Samaria. Other locations include Mount Carmel and Mount Gerizim, the waters of the Merom, the Dan and Jordan rivers, Gibeon, the plains of Sharon and Esdraelon, and the Dead Sea. Bāniyās and Damascus in Syria, and Sidon and Beirut harbor in Lebanon are depicted. A few portraits of Arab women and shepherds are included. Some notable images include the Tomb of Joseph, a funeral for a Jewish rabbi, a Russian burial service, wedding processions in Judea and Samaria, monks working in the fields, an olive soap factory, water jars at Cana, a Bedouin woman weaving a papyrus mat, the photographer's camp, and Holy Week ceremonies at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.

Names

  • Universal Photo Art Co.
  • H.C. White Co., copyright claimant
  • H.C. White Co., distributor

Created / Published

  • Philadelphia : C.H. Graves, c1903-c1905.

Headings

  • -  Mosques--Jerusalem--1900-1910
  • -  Churches--West Bank--1900-1910
  • -  Churches--Jerusalem--1900-1910
  • -  Rites & ceremonies--Jerusalem--1900-1910
  • -  Rites & ceremonies--West Bank--1900-1910
  • -  City & town life--West Bank--1900-1910
  • -  City & town life--Israel--1900-1910
  • -  City & town life--Syria--Damascus--1900-1910
  • -  Palestine--History--1799-1917

Format Headings

  • Cityscape photographs--1900-1910.
  • Gelatin silver prints--1900-1910.
  • Group portraits--1900-1910.
  • Landscape photographs--1900-1910.
  • Portrait photographs--1900-1910.
  • Stereographs--1900-1910.

Genre

  • Stereographs--1900-1910
  • Portrait photographs--1900-1910
  • Group portraits--1900-1910
  • Cityscape photographs--1900-1910
  • Landscape photographs--1900-1910
  • Gelatin silver prints--1900-1910

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Stereographs arranged into subdivisions based on copyright date and then according to numbered and unnumbered captions on stereo mounts. LOT 13738-1 was copyrighted in 1903. LOT 13738-2 was copyrighted in 1905.
  • -  Copyright deposit; C.H. Graves; c1903-c1905.
  • -  LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Printed and numbered captions on each stereograph.

Medium

  • 104 photographic prints on stereo cards : stereograph, gelatin silver ; 18 x 9 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13738 (S) [P&P]

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2005676221

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication. No renewal in copyright office.

Online Format

  • image

Additional Metadata Formats

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Cite This Item

Citations are generated automatically from bibliographic data as a convenience, and may not be complete or accurate.

Chicago citation style:

Universal Photo Art Co, Copyright Claimant H.C. White Co, and Distributor H.C. White Co. Stereograph views of Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. Palestine West Bank Jerusalem Israel Damascus Syria, None. philadelphia: c.h. graves, c1903-c1905. Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005676221/.

APA citation style:

Universal Photo Art Co, H.C. White Co, C. C. & H.C. White Co, D. Stereograph views of Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. Palestine West Bank Jerusalem Israel Damascus Syria, None. philadelphia: c.h. graves, c1903-c1905. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2005676221/.

MLA citation style:

Universal Photo Art Co, Copyright Claimant H.C. White Co, and Distributor H.C. White Co. Stereograph views of Palestine, Lebanon, and Syria. philadelphia: c.h. graves, c1903-c1905. Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2005676221/>.