07082ckd a2200949 a 4500 14933045 20250607021409.3 kh|bo| 070718i1938 |||nnn kneng 14933045 7 cbc orignew u ncip 20 y-printpho aale 7/2007 LCAP batch update 2025-06-01-04:00: LCAPM-862 2007675290 LC-DIG-ppmsca-17418 DLC (digital files of original photos) LC-DIG-ppmsca-17417 DLC (digital files of album pages) DLC DLC gihc DLC a-is--- awba--- a-sy--- LOT 13842 Whiting, John D. (John David), 1882-1951, photographer. Diary in photos, vol. V, 1939 [graphic]. 1939. 1 album (104 photographic prints) ; 26 x 15 cm. (album) still image sti rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia Digital image computer c rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier Digital image online resource cr rdacarrier Photographs arranged chronologically. LOT title from album. Album has parchment (vellum) bound cover. Handwritten on spine: Diary in Photos, Vol. V, 1939, Whiting. Album unpaginated, album page numbers supplied by Library staff. Pages 53-58 are blank. Captions for photographs found in list: Diary in photos, Vol, V, 1939, included with album. Other captions found in: Film catalogue, No. 2, [1938-1951]. 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). For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile original items. Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1939. 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 and the West Bank), Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Included are ruins, Bedouin and Romani (Gypsy) life, and a demonstration against the White Paper in Jerusalem Album page image number 1-17 (p. 1-19): Trip with Mr. and Mrs. Clement including a convoy of trucks on the Jericho road during the Arab rebellion, Tyre harbor and Belfort castle (Lebanon), and Banias (Syria); a botanical trip to W. Shaib (Wady Shaib, Jordan) including "Turkoman Gypsy" basket makers; "iris trip to Syria" including Krak des Chevaliers fortress, the Church of St. Simon (Kalat Siman), Byzantine ruins at Qasr el Banat, Bedouin woman digging for kimme (truffles), camel with babies, Emir Dahham's tent and Ford garage, Assyrian shepherd camp and Assyrian refugees near Tel Tamar (Tel Tamer), Gypsy sieve makers, women making a quilt, and Bedouins on road from Rakka to Palmyra. Album page image number 18-37 (p. 20-39): Iris trip to Syria continued including Kasr el-Heir esh Sharki (Qasr al Hayr Sharqi) castle, and mosque at Sida (Lebanon); trip to Kerak and the Dead Sea including reapers at W[ady] el Hod (West Bank), watering animals at Birket el Hadj, Ras Khanzir Mountain, the Dead Sea, tents, people working in fields, Bedouin women, children at Ghoraniyeh, Crusader fortress of Kerak, and Bedouins including women at Skhur. Album page image number 38-52 (p. 40-54): Jewish demonstration protesting the White Paper near the Terra Sancta building, Jerusalem; women picking apricots at Beit Jala (West Bank), "Negro Fallah and child"; trip to Syria including Pigeon Rocks at Beirut, women at a village faucet, winnowing, women drying and cooking burgul (bulgar) at Banias (Syria), potters closing a kiln, people harvesting "durrah," Lebanon mountains from Dhur Shweir (Dhur esh Shueir, Lebanon), village of Shafat or Nob (Israel), and women carrying brushwood on their heads. No known restrictions on publication. Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 2006; (DLC/PP-2006:051:44). 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: 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). American Colony (Jerusalem) 1930-1940. Romanies Jordan 1930-1940. Jews Jerusalem 1930-1940. Turkmen Syria 1930-1940. Assyrians Syria 1930-1940. Bedouins Syria 1930-1940. Bedouins Jordan 1930-1940. Arabs Middle East 1930-1940. Demonstrations Jerusalem 1930-1940. lctgm Camps Syria 1930-1940. lctgm Mosques Lebanon 1930-1940. lctgm Forts & fortifications Lebanon 1930-1940. lctgm Forts & fortifications Syria 1930-1940. lctgm Churches Syria 1930-1940. lctgm Botany Syria 1930-1940. lctgm Castles & palaces Syria 1930-1940. lctgm Farming Middle East 1930-1940. lctgm Archaeological sites Syria 1930-1940. lctgm Archaeological sites Lebanon 1930-1940. lctgm Israel 1930-1940. Jerusalem 1930-1940. West Bank 1930-1940. Syria 1930-1940. Lebanon 1930-1940. Palestine History 1917-1948. Portrait photographs 1930-1940. gmgpc Group portraits 1930-1940. gmgpc Photograph albums 1930-1940. gmgpc Landscape photographs 1930-1940. gmgpc Photographic prints 1930-1940. gmgpc Matson, G. Eric (Gästgifvar Eric), 1888-1977, photographer. Visual materials from the papers of John D. 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