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Sinai Mts. i.e., mountains, oasis - stereocsopic card
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Photograph taken from Wadi Hibran in the vicinity of A'in Rudysat above the junction with Wadi Malaha, looking northeast and showing the northern slopes of Gebel El Khur from right to centre-right, the first sight of the twin-summit of Gebel Tarbush in the far horizon in centre-right from a 11km plus distance, and the upper palm grove in the foreground. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Two Bronze Age sites (2,925-1,200 BCE) are located in the vicinity between Bir Nazrani and A'in El Hsha and A'in Rudysat. Camels replaced feral donkeys in transportation in 2nd millennium BCE, though domesticated donkeys are still used in the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula. Nabatean rock inscriptions are found along the valley at 18 different sites (1st century CE). Wadi Hibran is part of the route from El Tur on the Gulf of Suez to Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai) and is known as part of "Siqqat Abbas Basha". It was traversed by Abbas Helmi I, the Khedive of Egypt (1849-54). The pasha visited Sinai Peninsula in 1853-54 and paved several paths. As a result, the route became more frequented by travellers between mid-19th and early 20th centuries CE. Awlad Sa'aed tribe (14th century CE) inhabits Wadi Hibran. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service.
Guide card: Sinai.
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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