Damascus Gate and environs. Tombs of the Kings, the rolling stone
Title devised by Library staff. Title and date based on caption for similar image (LC-M32-134). On guide card: Unid[entified] ruins. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Ma... more
Jerusalem (El-Kouds). Panorama of Jerusalem from Olivet, in three sect...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative sleeve: Jerusalem from Olivet. Center section of panorama with LC-M36-427-[B] (left) and LC-M36-427-[C] (right). Gi... more
Temple of Horus, Edfu, Egypt
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative sleeve: Negative. Guide card: Egypt. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Sheep
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Northern views. Home of Christ, Nazareth
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative: Home of Christ. Caption on negative sleeve: Church of the Anunciation. On negative: 5422. On negative sleeve: 5422... more
Trans-Jordan. Petra. Temple of el-Khazne. (Doorway of side chamber)
Title from: list, Photographic subjects of Bible Lands. Caption on negative: Petra. Temple of El Khazne. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Epi... more
23rd Psalm, sheep
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Sinai, the sea
Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez in the vicinity of the anchorage bay of Port Ibrahim to the north of El Shatt and Gad El Marakeb and to the south of P... more
Mount of Olives from the west, camel in foreground
Title devised by Library staff. Title and date based on caption for similar image (LC-M32-D-102). Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Damascus (Esh-Sham). Cemetery of the Meidan
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Polish consulate
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative: 5. Guide card: Polish Consulate. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Painting of Christ? on a ceiling
Title devised by Library staff. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On guide card: Misc. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Petra
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Petra. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Northern views. General view of Nazareth (En-Nasirah) American Colony,...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative: General view of Nazareth. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Peasant types. Village carpenter. (Making plows)
Title from: list, Photographic subjects of Bible Lands. Caption continues from catalog: Mark 6. 3. Caption on negative: Village carpenter. (Making plows. Mark 6.3). Date based on similar image in LOT 13846, p. ... more
Chamber of the Last Supper, Jerusalem American Colony, Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. On negative sleeve: 2148. Guide card: Buildings, monuments, landmarks. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Elementary schoolroom
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Date from Matson LOT cards. On negative: 12. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Upper section of El-Khazne. Close side view, taken from precarious haz...
Title from negative. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jerusalem (El-Kouds). Pool of Hezekiah
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative: Pool of Hezekiah. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
State visit to Jerusalem of Wilhelm II of Germany in 1898. Emperor rev...
Title from: list, State visit to Jerusalem of Wilhelm II ... Receiving troops. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Tiberias
Title devised by Library staff. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Misc. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Mount Moriah, original contour
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Caption on negative: Mount Moriah, original contour. On guide card: Models of the tem... more
Bethpage i.e., Bethphage from Olivet, Jerusalem
Title from negative and list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108. On negative: 2970. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jordan
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative: 3118. Guide card: Trans-Jordan, misc. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Robinson family
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Beth Shemesh
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Caption on negative: Bethshems. Guide card: Beth Shemesh. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Sinai. Panorama of the Central Sinai Mountains from Wady er-Raha, in t...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Photograph taken from the southeastern end of EL Raha Plain (Biblical encampment of the Israelites), looking southeast and showing the ... more
Jerusalem (El-Kouds). Damascus Gate
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative sleeve: Jerusalem, Damascus Gate. On negative: 5048. Scene outside the Damascus Gate. (Source: researcher N. Lavsky... more
Maronite bishop
Title from negative. Caption from list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108: "N. Palestine." Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Epis... more
Northern views. Dan (Tell el-Kadi) American Colony, Jerusalem
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption continues from catalog: Main source of Jordan. On negative: 5441. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Syrian bishop's remains (funeral). Corpse seated in church
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Title from data for associated images (LC-M31-13047 and LC-M31-13047-A). Original title from list, Matson Collecti... more
Petra, el-Khazne
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from transparency sleeve. On transparency sleeve: Finlay p[ositive]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
East of Jordan and the Dead Sea. Ruins of bath, Jerash American Colony...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative: Jerash, ruins of bath. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Church of Holy Sep. i.e., Sepulchre. Jewelled crosses
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Buildings, monuments, landmarks. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Cedars of Lebanon
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
2 men on camels, Sinai Mts. i.e., mountains
Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and to the north of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking north... more
Beirut Hospital staff party
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Arab woman, ceramics
Title from negative sleeve. On negative: 2952. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Antique glass
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative: 3928. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jerusalem (El-Kouds). Jerusalem from Gordon's Calvary American Colony,...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative: Jerusalem from Gordon's Calvary. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Bedouin women working primitive grainmill
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
North Palestine botanical trip before 1917
Title from negative sleeve. On guide card: Taken on north Palestine botanical trip before 1917. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Trans-Jordan. Jerash. Portico of the Temple of Artemis
Title from: list, Photographic subjects of Bible Lands. Caption on negative: Jerash. Portico of the Temple of Artemis. On negative: P260 (crossed out). Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or it... more
Araya Abebe, cousin of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia, in Jerusale...
Title devised by Library staff. (Source: Maria Senna Asfa Wossen) On negative sleeve: H.S.? [i.e., Haile Selassie] in suit and tie. Guide card: Churchill visit, Mar. 1921. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Military copies
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Copies of military photographs. Two different images on the same plate. G... more
Plan of Ur
Title from negative. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Ancient coins, Egyptian paintings on tomb walls, maps, plans, restorations. Gift... more
Beth Alfa, Plain of Esdraelon
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Beth Alpha. On paper label: Mosaics at Beth Alfa on Plain of Esdraelon. G... more
Street in Jerusalem
Title from negative. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative: 16. Guide card: Jerusalem cityscapes. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Petra. The Sik from el-Khazneh
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Copy print verso: The Sik from el-Khazneh, Petra, Jordan. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Petra. General view of mountains of Petra
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Similar image in LOT 13847, p. 47, no. 23 (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18419) Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Polish consulate
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Polish Consulate. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jerash
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative sleeve: 3106 S. On negative: 3106. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Petra
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from transparency sleeve. On transparency sleeve: pos[itive]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
City types. Jerusalem rabbi. (With scroll & phylacteries)
Title from: list, Photographic subjects of Bible Lands. Caption continues from catalog: Deut. 6. 8. Math. 23. 5. Caption on negative: Jew robed for prayer. Jerusalem rabbi. On negative: 26. Similar image in LOT... more
Jerusalem
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Locust plague
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Locust plague. Film neg. taped to glass backing. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jerusalem Waterworks
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Dead Sea sunrise from Neby Mousa i.e., Nebi Musa
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Sinai, shepherd and sheep
Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from the southeastern end of EL Raha Plain (Biblical encampment of the Israelites), looking southeast and showing Wadi Sharig and the pointed summit of Ras El Sefsa... more
Nazareth, general view
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Nazareth. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jaffa. Packing & exporting oranges
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108. On negative: 2876. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Beth Shemesh
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative sleeve: See 451, p. 754. Guide card: Beth Shemesh. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Mt. Tabor & church
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Mt. Tabor. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
23rd Psalm, sheep
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On guide card: duplicates. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Moat around Tower of David American Colony, Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Guide card: Citadel & Tower of David. 3611 - 3620 [crossed out], 18. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Northern views. Shunem (Sulem) and Mts. i.e., mountains of Gilboa
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative: Place where widow's son was raised, Shunem. On negative: 5407. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
El Kubeibeh, German Hospice
Photograph shows view from a window in the German Hospice at al-Qubaybah (al-Qubeibah), Jerusalem Governate, West Bank. Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its su... more
Arabs constructing building
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 12961-13944. Caption on negative sleeve: From Matson's "Arab types" drawer. Building house box. On negative: 2915. On negative sleeve: 2915. Taken either by ... more
Castle, Aleppo
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Petra. Tomb with stories
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. On negative: 5589. Similar image in LOT 13847, p. 51, no. 25 (http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18419) Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Collection of flints
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On guide card: numbered according to list by some collector?. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Antique Roman glass
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Turk mili. military WWI. Men dancing with swords in celebration
Creator name based on date. Title from negative sleeve. On negative sleeve: par. 4. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Mosque of Machpelah, Hebron
Title devised by Library staff. Title from list of Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108, misidentifies location as Jerusalem. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the ... more
Jewish factories
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 13816-13914. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
City of Gaza
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Petra, high place?
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative: 2626. Guide card: Petra. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jerusalem. British homes, embassy
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jerusalem (El-Kouds). Solomon's Quarries
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative sleeve: Solomon's Quarries, old Jerusalem. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Epiphany, church Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Title from negative sleeve. On negative: 2795. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Sheep
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Antique glass
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Road to Jericho (Er-Riha), etc. Valley of Achor. Bedouin camp
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative: Bedouin encampment in Valley of Achor. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Camels at oasis, Sinai
Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) somewhere in the vicinity of Dier El Banat and Sheikh Ahmed and Sheikh Shebib, where a dense palm grove covers that section of Feiran Oasis. (Source: A. Sha... more
Tiberias
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative sleeve: Finlay neg. emulsion is coming off. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Agony in the Garden
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative sleeve: painting. 9491 MSS cat. On negative: 9491 manuscript catalogue. O... more
Jerusalem to Galilee via Samaria. Lake of Galilee. (Fishing boat at su...
Title from: list, Photographic subjects of Bible Lands. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Bethlehem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Boat passing rocks at Jaffa
Creator name based on date. Title devised by Library staff. On negative: 2. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Beirut, etc. Sidon (Saida)
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative sleeve: Coast at Sidon. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Old Bedouin woman
Title from negative sleeve. Original title from Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914: Costumes and characters, etc. Bust of a Bedouin woman. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
The upper room place of the last supper
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from transparency sleeve. On transparency sleeve: Art positive. On guide card: Positives from art series. G... more
National Geographic Society at Le Gorce (Tunney?)
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: National Geographic Society. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Petra. Temple of Ed-Deir, front view American Colony, Jerusalem
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Young girl standing in front of a tree
Title devised by Library staff. On negative: 2904. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Road and buildings
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service Title devised by Library staff. On negative: 242. On guide card: Misc. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Syria. Beirut. The American University School of Arts
Title from: list, Photographic subjects of Bible Lands. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.