Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friends, and associates
American Colony (Jerusalem).
Photo Department,
photographer
still image
graphic
Portrait photographs-1870-1940.
Group portraits-1870-1940.
Cabinet photographs-1870-1940.
Photograph albums-1870-1940.
Gelatin silver prints-1870-1940.
Albumen prints-1870-1940.
1870
1935
monographic
[between 1870 and 1935]
eng
1 album (27 photographic prints) ; 27 x 21 cm. (album)
Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Included are Anna Spafford with daughters Grace (Spafford) Whiting and Bertha (Spafford) Vester, Grace (Spafford) Whiting with Esrohee Krikorian, John D. Whiting and his sister Ruth with Flora (Naseef) Page, Grace (Spafford) Whiting, and Bertha (Spafford) Vester; David Whiting, Spafford Whiting, Jacob Spafford, adopted son of Horatio and Anna Spafford; Nellie (Nannie) with Horatio, Tanetta, and Anna Grace Vester; and portraits of the Spafford children who died in the shipwreck of the S.S. Ville de Havre in 1873. Also included are Faidi al-Alami (mayor of Jerusalem, 1906-1909) with his two children Na'amite and Musa Bey, Juad Husseini, Mary Hornstein, and two unidentified men wearing fezes.
For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile original items.
No known restrictions on publication.
Other photographers include Garabed Krikorian, Jerusalem; Harold Climo, St. John, New Brunswick; and Wilson, Chicago.
Album unpaginated, album page numbers supplied by Library staff. Pages 4-6, 13, and 24 are blank.
Album has brown leather cover with embossed leaf pattern.
Photographs include gelatin silver and albumen prints. Some are on cabinet card mounts.
LOT title devised by Library staff.
John D. Whiting's diaries, correspondence, and other materials are located in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Papers of John D. Whiting).
Transfer; Manuscript Division; 2006; (DLC/PP-2006:051:18).
Some of the photographs were created by the photographers of the American Colony Photo Department, located in Jerusalem. Founded in the late 1890s by Elijah Meyers, the photo agency was headed during its heyday (ca. 1903-1933) by Lewis Larsson, whose staff photographers included Erik Lind, Lars Lind, Furman Baldwin, and G. Eric Matson. It transitioned into the Matson Photo Service around 1940, with photography by Matson, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others. John D. Whiting contributed periodically to the work of both agencies. For more information see: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.matpc and http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/629_whiting.html.
Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting (Library of Congress).
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Whiting, Grace Spafford.
Vester, Bertha Spafford,
1878-1968
Vester, Anna Grace.
Spafford, Anna T.,
1842-1923
Vester, Anna Grace.
Whiting, John D. (John David),
1882-1951
Whiting, Grace Spafford.
ʻAlamī, Mūsá,
1897-1984
Childhood & youth
American Colony (Jerusalem)
People
1870-1940
Arabs
Palestine
1870-1940
Families
Jerusalem
1870-1940
Children
Jerusalem
1870-1940
Palestine
History
1799-1917
Jerusalem
1870-1940
Palestine
History
1917-1948
LOT 13843
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18411
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.18410
Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting
(DLC)
2007675263
LC-DIG-ppmsca-18411 DLC
LC-DIG-ppmsca-18410 DLC
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hdl:loc.pnp/ppmsca.18410
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