Part of PICRYL.com. Not developed or endorsed by the Library of Congress

6th century

public
96 media by topicpage 1 of 1
Sinai. Wilderness of Shur. Exodus 15:22

Sinai. Wilderness of Shur. Exodus 15:22

Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly ... More

Christian & Mohamedan chapels on the Summit of Sinai Feby 20th 1839

Christian & Mohamedan chapels on the Summit of Sinai Feby 20th 1839

Painting drawn at the summit of Gebel Musa (Biblical Mount Sinai), with mostly imaginative mountain landscape for the distribution and shape of the surrounding summits and showing the church and mosque on the s... More

Sinai. Interior of the famous library Monastery of St. Catherine American Colony, Jerusalem

Sinai. Interior of the famous library Monastery of St. Catherine Ameri...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Identified as Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers. The library of Saint Catherine Monas... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Typical scene around the campfire at night

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Typical scene around t...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken in the oasis of Wadi Feiran or Wadi EL Sheikh(?), where there is an abundant palm and Tarfaa grove... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Scene at Nakb El-Hawa

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Scene at Nakb El-Hawa

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Photograph taken from Farsh Abu Sila at the southeastern end of Naqb El Hawa and at the junction with El Raha Plain (Biblical encampment of the... More

To Sinai by car. Pilgrims' steps and the wicket gate. Descent from Gebel Mousa

To Sinai by car. Pilgrims' steps and the wicket gate. Descent from Geb...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from Siqqat Sydina Musa along the Byzantine monastic and pilgrimage naqb to the summit of Mount Si... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin home in Wady Er-Raha

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin home in Wady E...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the perimeter of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula(?), looking northwards and showing a w... More

The stone gate halfway up Mt. Sinai

The stone gate halfway up Mt. Sinai

Several men, most with rifles, near stone arched gate over mountain pass. J177975 U.S. Copyright Office. Caption continues: Centuries ago there used to be a monk placed at this gate to pass only those who were ... More

Chapel of the convent of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai Feby 21st 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.

Chapel of the convent of Saint Catherine on Mount Sinai Feby 21st 1839...

Painting drawn at the narthex at the original 6th century CE inner door, looking east and showing the nave of the basilica. (A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018) Saint Catherine Monastery was constructed b... More

Christian chapel belfry, St. Catherine i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai

Christian chapel belfry, St. Catherine i.e., Monastery of St. Catherin...

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from the buildings overlooking the middle alley o... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Cover of the most prized manuscript Monastery of Saint Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Cover of the most priz...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Cover of the most prized manuscript. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with nei... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The famous library Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The famous library Mon...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: The famous library. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers.... More

Well at St. Cath. i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai

Well at St. Cath. i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from the western end of the southern alley of the... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. In the footsteps of father; Bedouin boy with camel

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. In the footsteps of fa...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: In the Fo[otsteps] of his father, Bedouin boy with camel. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from a low elevated... More

Ascent to the summit of Sinai Feby 20th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.

Ascent to the summit of Sinai Feby 20th 1839 / David Roberts, R.A.

Painting drawn at Siqqat Sydina Musa along the Byzantine monastic and pilgrimage naqb to the summit of Gebel Musa (Biblical Mount Sinai) below the lower stone gate, looking southwest and showing the rock steps ... More

Well at the monastery St. Catherine's Monastery

Well at the monastery St. Catherine's Monastery

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from the western end of the southern alley of the... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Church of Transfiguration; interior Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Church of Transfigurat...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Church of Transfiguration. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring n... More

Sinai. Interior of the Church of the Transfiguration Monastery of St. Catherine

Sinai. Interior of the Church of the Transfiguration Monastery of St. ...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Identified as Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers. Photograph taken from the narthex at... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin camp

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin camp

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the perimeter of the High Mountains of Sinai Peninsula(?), looking southwards and showing a w... More

Sinai. Panorama of the Sinai Mountains from Nakb-el-Hawa

Sinai. Panorama of the Sinai Mountains from Nakb-el-Hawa

Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption continues from catalog: Shows man. Photograph taken from Farsh Abu Sila at the southeastern end of Naqb El Hawa and at the junc... More

[Reproduction of illustration showing a carnation]

[Reproduction of illustration showing a carnation]

Photograph of an illuminated manuscript page from Juliana Anicia Codex of Dioscorides, 6th century. On slide: Blind embossed stamp: "Frances B. Johnston, New York." Possibly photographed by Frances Benjamin Joh... More

Mt. Sinai Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem

Mt. Sinai Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looking southeast during the sunrise and showing the western wall of the church on the summit to the l... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Monastery of St. Katherine i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine near view

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Monastery of St. Kathe...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Monastery of St. Katherine near view. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the slopes of Gebel El Dier (Selib... More

Boy & camel, Mt. Sinai box - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Boy & camel, Mt. Sinai box - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from a low elevated valley at the perimeter of no... More

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery - stereocsopic card

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery - stereocsopic card

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

Greek Orthodox priest from St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holding prized manuscript with silver cover from their library

Greek Orthodox priest from St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai hold...

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin woman with all her finery

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin woman with all...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Bedouin. On negative sleeve: 06623, Matson call # 862. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph shows a winter Bedouin encam... More

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

Sinai, the ascent to Jebel Mousa

Sinai, the ascent to Jebel Mousa

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Photograph taken from Siqqat Sydina Musa along the Byzantine monastic and pilgrimage ... More

Sinaikloster von der Nordostecke aus. Rechts: Pilgerhaus, nach links anschliessend (mit Giebeldach) Bibliotek dann Minaret und moderner Glockenturm, dahinter alte Kirche des Kaisers Justinian. 1910.

Sinaikloster von der Nordostecke aus. Rechts: Pilgerhaus, nach links a...

Plate 92 in portfolio: Bilder aus Palästina. Nord-Arabien und dem Sinai. Berlin : Dietrich Riemer, 1916. Letterpress caption in German. Translated title by Library staff. Photograph taken from the northwester... More

Frances Benjamin Johnston - [Reproduction of a botanical drawing]

Frances Benjamin Johnston - [Reproduction of a botanical drawing]

Photograph of an illuminated manuscript page from Juliana Anicia Codex of Dioscorides, 6th century. On slide: Blind embossed stamp: "Frances B. Johnston, New York." Possibly photographed by Frances Benjamin Joh... More

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery (?) - stereocsopic card

Sinai, St. Catherine's Monastery (?) - stereocsopic card

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looking northeast and showing Wadi Sebaa'iya and Wadi Sdud in lower-right, and the western mountain sl... More

Sinai series,  Israel, Matson photograph collection

Sinai series, Israel, Matson photograph collection

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Farsh Abu Sila at the southeastern end of Naqb El Hawa and at the junction with El Raha Plain (Biblical encampment of the Israelites) and Wadi Bougiyeh Wadi Bou... More

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holding prized manuscript with silver cover from their library

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holdin...

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

Sinai. The Summit of Jebel Mousa

Sinai. The Summit of Jebel Mousa

Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looking northeast and showing Wadi Sebaa'iya and Wadi S... More

Sinai. Church of the Transfiguration and the Mosque Monastery of St. Catherine

Sinai. Church of the Transfiguration and the Mosque Monastery of St. C...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Identified as Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers. Photograph taken from the southweste... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Young monks Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Young monks Monastery ...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Young monks. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers. Date f... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Pilgrim's steps and the first gate

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Pilgrim's steps and th...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Pilgrim's steps and the first gate. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from Siqqat Sydina Musa along the Byzanti... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Monastery of St. Katherine i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine from the east

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Monastery of St. Kathe...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Monastery of St. Katherine from the east. Photograph taken from the slopes of Gebel El Dier (Selib-Baraka) to the north of... More

In the Sinai,  Israel, Matson photograph collection

In the Sinai, Israel, Matson photograph collection

Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Siqqat Sydina Musa along the Byzantine monastic and pilgrimage ... More

Sinai. Interior of the Church of the Tranfiguration at the Monastery of St. Catherine

Sinai. Interior of the Church of the Tranfiguration at the Monastery o...

Title and date based on caption for similar image (LC-M36-1026). Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On box label: Duplicates. Use 8 x 10 paper on e... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Caring for sick camel

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Caring for sick camel

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Caring for a sick camel (crossed out). On negative: 1526 (crossed out). Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken in Wa... More

Sinai, Bedouin woman & child - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Sinai, Bedouin woman & child - Public domain image. Dry plate negative...

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph shows a Bedouin woman sitting with her child as part of... More

Sinai. The Summit of Jebel Mousa

Sinai. The Summit of Jebel Mousa

Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looking northeast and showing Wadi Sebaa'iya and Wadi S... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Sunrise seen from summit of Jebel Mousa

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Sunrise seen from summ...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looking southeast during the sunris... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: Artifacts and Paintings, circa 6th century B.C.E.-1936; Oil portrait painting of Freud, 1936
Sinai, Bedouin woman grinding flour

Sinai, Bedouin woman grinding flour

Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. On guide card: Sinai, see p. 437-462. Photograph taken in the oasis of Wadi Feiran, w... More

Matson i.e., Eric Matson, Dr. Robinson (of Chicago Univ.), Goldberg, & 2 monks at St. Catherine's, Sinai

Matson i.e., Eric Matson, Dr. Robinson (of Chicago Univ.), Goldberg, &...

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

Greek Orthodox priests at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai

Greek Orthodox priests at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Summit of Jebel Mousa

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Summit of Jebel Mousa

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looking northeast and showing Wadi Sebaa'iya and Wadi Sdud in l... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Beautiful inlaid work of the altar Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Beautiful inlaid work ...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Beautiful inlaid work of the altar. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neig... More

Sinai series,  Israel, Matson photograph collection

Sinai series, Israel, Matson photograph collection

Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looki... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: Artifacts and Paintings, circa 6th century B.C.E.-1936; Small Greek statue, circa 6th century - 1st century B.C.E
To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Native hut made of palm branches

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Native hut made of pal...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Native hut made of palm branches. On negative: 1521 Native Hut in Wady Hebran (crossed out). Date from Matson LOT cards. P... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin couple

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Bedouin couple

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph shows a winter Bedouin encampment/tent (Arabic: Beit Sha'ar), possibly from the Gebaliya tribe who inhab... More

Men & camels in Sinai Mts. i.e., mountains

Men & camels in Sinai Mts. i.e., mountains

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Farsh Abu Sila at the southeastern end of Naqb El Hawa and at the junction with El Raha Plain (Biblical encampment of the Israelites) and Wadi Bougiyeh Wadi Bou... More

Convent of St. Catherine i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai Mts.i.e., mountains

Convent of St. Catherine i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai Mts.i...

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from the slopes of Gebel El Dier (Selib-Baraka) to the north of Saint Catherine Monastery in Wadi El Dier (Biblical Holy Valley), looking northwest and showing the e... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Glimpse of the church belfry Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Glimpse of the church ...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Glimpse of the church belfry. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighborin... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Young monks Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Young monks Monastery ...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph t... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Details of carving on the door of the church Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Details of carving on ...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Details of carving on the door of the church. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The old monk Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The old monk Monastery...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: The old monk. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers. Date ... More

To Sinai via the desert. Wilderness of Shur

To Sinai via the desert. Wilderness of Shur

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Wilderness of Shur. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of ... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Dates spread out to dry

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Dates spread out to dr...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Dates spread out to dry (crossed out). On negative: 1524 (crossed out). Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken in Wa... More

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holding prized manuscript with silver cover from their library

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holdin...

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holding prized manuscript with silver cover from the library

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holdin...

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

To Sinai by car. Gebel Mousa. Closer view of the camel's footprint

To Sinai by car. Gebel Mousa. Closer view of the camel's footprint

Photograph taken below the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa) at Matab El Naqa (the traditional location of the camel footprint of Prophet Mohammad), along the upper section of the Byzantine r... More

Sinai. Chapel on the summit of Mt. Sinai

Sinai. Chapel on the summit of Mt. Sinai

Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looking southwest and showing the vi... More

Sinai Egypt, Extinct City, Jordan - stereocsopic card

Sinai Egypt, Extinct City, Jordan - stereocsopic card

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly El Raha Plain (Ahtha) the north most coastal plain or El Hbeg Plai... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Enclosure where the dates are dried

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Enclosure where the da...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Enclosure where dates are dried (crossed out). On negative: 1523 (crossed out). Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph tak... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Interior of the church seen from the apse Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Interior of the church...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Interior of the church seen from the apse. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives wi... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Near view of the upper gate

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Near view of the upper...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Near view of the upper gate. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from Siqqat Sydina Musa along the Byzantine mona... More

To Sinai by car. Gebel Mousa. Burak's (Mohamet's Camel's) footprint

To Sinai by car. Gebel Mousa. Burak's (Mohamet's Camel's) footprint

Photograph taken below the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa) at Matab El Naqa (the traditional location of the camel footprint of Prophet Mohammad), along the upper section of the Byzantine r... More

Greek Orthodox priests at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holding prized manuscript with silver covers from their library

Greek Orthodox priests at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holdi...

Photo shows (left) English biblical scholar and manuscript curator James Rendel Harris (1852-1941) with a monk in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery. (Source: Janet Martin Soskice, The sisters of Sinai, p... More

Sinai, 16th century Egypt. Eric Matson public domain photograph collection.

Sinai, 16th century Egypt. Eric Matson public domain photograph collec...

Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. On guide card: Sinai, see p. 437-462. Photograph taken from an oasis on a key caravan... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The old well Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The old well Monastery...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: The old well. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers. Date ... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. View of the mountains from the gate

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. View of the mountains ...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: View of the mountains from the gate. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from Siqqat Sydina Musa along the Byzant... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Facsimile of the Codex Sinaiticus Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Facsimile of the Codex...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Facsimile of the C[odex]. On negative: 1556 Facsimile of Part of Codex Sinai (crossed out). Identified as the Monastery of... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. El-Kaa, the Wilderness of Sin

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. El-Kaa, the Wilderness...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly El Raha Plain (Ahtha) the n... More

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holding prized manuscript with silver cover from the library

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holdin...

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The Crescent and the Cross; belfry and minaret Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The Crescent and the C...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: The Crescent and the Cross, belfry and minaret. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negativ... More

Sinai. Monastery of St. Katherine, close view

Sinai. Monastery of St. Katherine, close view

Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. On slide mount: Sinai. Monastery of St. Katherine. On slide mount: Copyright Matson Photo Service. Photograph taken ... More

Sinai. Sunrise from summit of Gebel Mousa

Sinai. Sunrise from summit of Gebel Mousa

Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looking southeast during the sunrise... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Church of the Transfiguration and the mosque Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Church of the Transfig...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Church of the Transfiguration and the mosque. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives... More

To Sinai by car. St. Katherine's i.e., St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai. Carving of palms on chapel walls

To Sinai by car. St. Katherine's i.e., St. Catherine's Monastery in Si...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, looking northeast and showing the triangle-shape wes... More

Sigmund Freud Papers: Artifacts and Paintings, circa 6th century B.C.E.-1936; Pocket watch, undated
Sigmund Freud Papers: Artifacts and Paintings, circa 6th century B.C.E.-1936; Small Greek statue, circa 6th century - 1st century B.C.E
Sinai, 16th century Egypt - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Sinai, 16th century Egypt - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly El Raha Plain (Ahtha) the north most coastal plain or El Hbeg Plai... More

Greek Orthodox priests from St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai

Greek Orthodox priests from St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Antique door of the church Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Antique door of the ch...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Antique door of the church. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring ... More

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holding prized manuscript with silver cover from their library

Greek Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Monastery in the Sinai holdin...

Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from in front of the 6th century CE basilica, loo... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The monk-artist Monastery of St. Catherine

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. The monk-artist Monast...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Identified as the Monastery of St. Catherine based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph t... More

To Sinai by car. St. Katherine's i.e., St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai showing outer walls, belfry, and minaret

To Sinai by car. St. Katherine's i.e., St. Catherine's Monastery in Si...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the slopes of Gebel El Dier (Selib-Baraka) to the north of Saint Catherine Monastery in Wadi ... More

Sinai. Wilderness of Sin. Exodus 16:1

Sinai. Wilderness of Sin. Exodus 16:1

Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly ... More

Sinai, 16th century Egypt. American colony in Jerusalem public domain photo.

Sinai, 16th century Egypt. American colony in Jerusalem public domain ...

Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. On guide card: Sinai, see p. 437-462. Photograph taken from an oasis on a key caravan... More

Looking down pilgrim's steps, Mt. Sinai

Looking down pilgrim's steps, Mt. Sinai

Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Siqqat Sydina Musa along the Byzantine monastic and pilgrimage naqb to the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai) between the lower (St. Stephen) and upper ston... More

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Chapel of Elijah on Jebel Mousa

To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Chapel of Elijah on Je...

Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Photograph taken from the summit of Mount Sinai (Biblical Sinai or Gebel Musa), looking northeast and showing the church on the summit in the c... More