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In the Sinai, 16th century. American colony in Jerusalem public domain photo.
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Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service.
Title from negative sleeve.
The landscape and the sequence of the photographs suggest somewhere on Darb El Hagg to the west of the town of Nakhl, or between the town of Nakhl and Bir El Hassana to the north of Nakhl, or on Darb El Sherif to the northeast of Bir El Hassana in central-north Sinai(?) (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Huweitat (17th century CE), Tayaha (10-13th centuries CE) and Tarabien (16th century CE) tribes inhabit the gravel plains of Wadi El Arish and Wadi El Bruk to south of Gebel Yalk, Gebel Abraqein and Gebel Halal, along Darb El Sherif from south to north respectively. A tribal battle took place between Tarabien tribe (16th centuries CE) and Sawarka (17th century CE) and Rumiylat (18th century CE) tribes at Bir El Hassana and Ras Sram area to the south of Gebel Sabha on Darb El Sherif in 19th century CE. The first asphalt road from El Shatt of the Gulf of Suez to El Qusaima on the border of the Negev Desert along Darb El Sherif was constructed by the Egyptian Corps of Engineers in 1950-51 CE (and later extended to the east in 1956-58 CE). (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
On guide card: Sinai, see p. 437-462.
On negative: 17.
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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