Дневник в фотографиях, вол. I, 1934-1935

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.
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: 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).