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Photo, Print, Drawing Diary in photos, vol. I, 1934-1935

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About this Item

Title

  • Diary in photos, vol. I, 1934-1935

Summary

  • Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1934 and 1935. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Photographs include locations in Palestine (present-day Israel, the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip), Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey. People depicted include John D. Whiting, his wife Grace, and sons David and Edmund (Wilson); Horatio, Jock, Louise, Freda Vester, and Anna Grace (Vester) Lind; Deputy District Governor of Beersheba ʻĀrif ʻĀrif, Emir Abdullah of Transjordan, Bedouin Sheik Majid, and travelers and visitors to the region. Also shown are the Jerusalem municipal elections of September 1935, Bedouin camps, views of Jerusalem, and the visit to Jerusalem by a Saudi prince. Album page image number 1 to 24 (p. 1-24): Photographs from Part I, February to September 1934 including: camel trip to the Arabah Valley by invitation of ʻĀrif ʻĀrif, Deputy District Governor of Beersheba; laying water pipes in Jerusalem, trip with John Dinsmore to Rafa'a for iris; women in Bethlehem, picking flowers at Camp Adonis, near Tiberias; Jerash (Gerasa), David and Grace Whiting in the courtyard of the American Colony, the Anna Spafford Baby Home, the airplane "Hanno" landing at Ludd (Lod), the Adwan Lozi camp near Suweilih (Suwaylih, Jordan), a dog "Barak," (Edmund) Wilson Whiting sculpting a "Hagin" (camel), Sheik Majid's camp near Suweilih, and municipal elections, Jerusalem. Album page image number 25 to 40 (p. 25-40): Photographs from Part I, September to November 1934 including: trip to the Bedu Camp at Deir el Belah (Dayr al Belah, Gaza Strip); police sports on Mt. Scopus, trip to Petra (Jordan), Akaba (Aqabah), a Byzantine church at Mt. Nebo, trip to Shalaal, the wedding of Emir Talal (son of Emir Abdullah) at Amman, Gypsy (Romani) girl dancing at the wedding, a camel turning a mill to make sesame oil, picnic at Nebi Musa, and a Tomb at Er Rahi. Album page image number 41 to 67 (p. 43-65): Photographs from Part II, January to June 1935 including: Christmas tree in American Colony courtyard, trip to Petra with author Mrs. Fisher (Violet Cressy-Marcks) and the Beaumonts, floods in Jordan, trip from Cairo to Petra including aerial views, trip to Jerash (Gerasa), quarry men at Nazareth, the Palestine Electric Corporation (Rutenburg Plant), Ba'albek (Ba'labakk), celebration for King George V's Jubilee, and trip to Syria with wife and daughter of architect Charles Robert Ashbee. Album page image number 68 to 88 (p. 66-90): Photographs from Part II, July to December 1935 including: reaper harvester at Esdraelon, Horatio (Spafford?) and David Whiting hunting at Gabir Effendi, visit of Saudi prince to Palestine and Jordan with review of Arab army, picnic at Krimzan (Dayr Krimzan, West Bank), bird's-eye view of Christian and Jewish neighborhoods of Jerusalem (including the Hurva and Nisan Bak synagogues), trip to "Mikmash valley" (Michmash, Israel), trip to Cappadocia and Ankara, Turkey; and trip to Petra including Adwan camp at Shuneh.

Names

  • Whiting, John D. (John David), 1882-1951, photographer
  • Matson, G. Eric (Gästgifvar Eric), 1888-1977, photographer

Created / Published

  • [1934 and 1935]

Headings

  • -  ʻĀrif, ʻĀrif,--1892-1973
  • -  Abdullah,--King of Jordan,--1882-1951
  • -  American Colony (Jerusalem)--People--1930-1940
  • -  Jews--Middle East--1930-1940
  • -  Bedouins--Middle East--1930-1940
  • -  Arabs--Middle East--1930-1940
  • -  Tourism--Middle East--1930-1940
  • -  Archaeological sites--Middle East--1930-1940
  • -  Camps--Middle East--1930-1940
  • -  Picnics--Middle East--1930-1940
  • -  Cities & towns--Middle East--1930-1940
  • -  Elections--Jerusalem--1930-1940
  • -  Petra (Extinct city)--1930-1940
  • -  Gerasa (Extinct city)--1930-1940
  • -  Arabah Valley (Israel and Jordan)--1940-1940
  • -  Israel--1930-1940
  • -  Jerusalem--1930-1940
  • -  Gaza Strip--1930-1940
  • -  West Bank--1930-1940
  • -  Syria--1930-1940
  • -  Lebanon--1930-1940
  • -  Jordan--1930-1940
  • -  Turkey--1930-1940
  • -  Palestine--History--1917-1948

Format Headings

  • Group portraits--1930-1940.
  • Landscape photographs--1930-1940.
  • Photograph albums--1930-1940.
  • Photographic prints--1930-1940.
  • Portrait photographs--1930-1940.

Genre

  • Portrait photographs--1930-1940
  • Group portraits--1930-1940
  • Photograph albums--1930-1940
  • Landscape photographs--1930-1940
  • Photographic prints--1930-1940

Notes

  • -  Arrangement: Photographs arranged chronologically.
  • -  LOT title from album and caption list.
  • -  Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting. G. Eric Matson and others may have also taken some of the photographs. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson Photo Service, the successor to the American Colony Photo Department (1898-1940). For more information about the American Colony Photo Department and the Matson Photo Service see: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.matpc For more information about the John D. Whiting Collection see: https://aj.sunback.homes/rr/print/coll/629_whiting.html
  • -  Album has parchment (vellum) bound cover. Handwritten on spine: Photos, Vol. I. 1934-1935, Whiting.
  • -  Album unpaginated, album page numbers supplied by Library staff. Pages 1-4, 45, 46, 95 and 96 are blank.
  • -  Captions for photographs found in list: Diary in photos, Jerusalem, 1934-1935, included with album. Some additional caption information found in: Film catalogue, No. 1, [1934-1938]. Copy in John D. Whiting Supplementary Archive, Box 2.
  • -  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 (Library of Congress).
  • -  Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 2006; (DLC/PP-2006:051:36).

Medium

  • 1 album (176 photographic prints) ; 26 x 15 cm. (album)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • LOT 13836 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]

Source Collection

  • Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting

Repository

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2007675295

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-ppmsca-17162 (digital files of original photos) LC-DIG-ppmsca-17161 (digital files of album pages)

Rights Advisory

  • No known restrictions on publication.

Access Advisory

  • For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile original items.

Online Format

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  • Call Number: LOT 13836 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]
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Chicago citation style:

Whiting, John D, and G. Eric Matson, photographer. Diary in photos, vol. I, -1935. Extinct City Syria Lebanon Middle East Jordan Palestine Turkey Petra West Bank Jerusalem Arabah Valley Gerasa Israel Gaza Strip, 1934. [and 1935] Photograph. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2007675295/.

APA citation style:

Whiting, J. D. & Matson, G. E., photographer. (1934) Diary in photos, vol. I, -1935. Extinct City Syria Lebanon Middle East Jordan Palestine Turkey Petra West Bank Jerusalem Arabah Valley Gerasa Israel Gaza Strip, 1934. [and 1935] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2007675295/.

MLA citation style:

Whiting, John D, and G. Eric Matson, photographer. Diary in photos, vol. I, -1935. [and 1935] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2007675295/>.