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Old barn used as bunkhouse for migrant fruit pickers from the South. This grower employs only unmarried Negroes. Berrien County, Michigan

Galilee trip. Huleh District (Lake Merom). Mat weaving from reeds at Mallaha

Soup aspirants, Potlogi - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

What the announcement of the armistice did at the Dartford. It overturned wheel chairs, caused crutches to be discarded, littered the ground with pots and pans and ehateer everybody happened to be carrying, for everything was dropped in a wild ouburst of noisy hilarity and merrymaking. And Ward "H" was only one of a score of smilar scenes being enacted in all parts of the hospital grounds

Shorpy Higginbotham, a "greaser" on the tipple at Bessie Mine, of the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Co. Said he was 14 years old, but it is doubtful. Carries two heavy pails of grease, and is often in danger of being run over by the coal cars. Location: Bessie Mine, Alabama.

Marines and sailors dispersing after an assembly aft for instructions - life on board a battleship

A drawing of a man standing in front of a crowd of people, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A new way of "waking" the Democratic shaughraun / Gillam.

Closing hour, Saturday noon, at Dallas Mill. Every child in photos, so far as I was able to ascertain, works in that mill. When I questioned some of the youngest boys as to their ages, they said they were 12, and then other boys said they were lying. (Which sentiment I agreed with.) Location: Huntsville, Alabama.

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Zionist activities around Haifa. Haifa. Palestine oil industry "Shemen" Ltd. showing the soap works

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Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?].

Date from Matson LOT cards.

Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.

The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection is a source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present-day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the Library of Congress collection consists of over 23,000 glass and film photographic negatives and transparencies created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. The American Colony Photo Department in Jerusalem was one of several photo services operating in the Middle East before 1900. Catering primarily to the tourist trade, the American Colony and its competitors photographed holy sites, often including costumed actors recreating Biblical scenes. The firm’s photographers were residents of Palestine with knowledge of the land and people that gave them an advantage and made their coverage intimate and comprehensive. They documented Middle East culture, history, and political events from before World War I through the collapse of Ottoman rule, the British Mandate period, World War II, and the emergence of the State of Israel. The Matson Collection also includes images of people and locations in present-day Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. Additionally, the firm produced photographs from an East African trip. The collection came to the Library of Congress between 1966 and 1981, through a series of gifts made by Eric Matson and his beneficiary, the Home for the Aged of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Los Angeles (now called the Kensington Episcopal Home).

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israel haifa dry plate negatives stereographs iryat ḥayim haifa israel matson g eric and edith photograph collection american colony jerusalem photo dept photo palestine oil industry zionist activities soap works ultra high resolution high resolution palestine history of israel zionism zionist colonies library of congress
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Date

01/01/1920
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Matson's Palestine

Matson Middle East Photographic Collection
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Location

Ḳiryat Ḥayim (Haifa, Israel)
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Library of Congress
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Link

https://www.loc.gov/
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israel haifa dry plate negatives stereographs iryat ḥayim haifa israel matson g eric and edith photograph collection american colony jerusalem photo dept photo palestine oil industry zionist activities soap works ultra high resolution high resolution palestine history of israel zionism zionist colonies library of congress