Whiting, John D. (John David), 1882-1951 photographer Matson, G. Eric (Gästgifvar Eric), 1888-1977 photographer still image graphic still image Portrait photographs-1930-1940. Group portraits-1930-1940. Photograph albums-1930-1940. Landscape photographs-1930-1940. Photographic prints-1930-1940. 1938 monographic 1939 eng

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1 album (104 photographic prints) ; 26 x 15 cm. (album) Photographs arranged chronologically. 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. For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile original items. No known restrictions on publication. 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). 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). a-is--- awba--- a-sy--- 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 Camps Syria 1930-1940 Mosques Lebanon 1930-1940 Forts & fortifications Lebanon 1930-1940 Forts & fortifications Syria 1930-1940 Churches Syria 1930-1940 Botany Syria 1930-1940 Castles & palaces Syria 1930-1940 Farming Middle East 1930-1940 Archaeological sites Syria 1930-1940 Archaeological sites Lebanon 1930-1940 Israel 1930-1940 Jerusalem 1930-1940 West Bank 1930-1940 Syria 1930-1940 Lebanon 1930-1940 Palestine History 1917-1948 LOT 13842 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.17418 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.17417 (DLC) 2007675290 LC-DIG-ppmsca-17418 DLC LC-DIG-ppmsca-17417 DLC hdl:loc.pnp/ppmsca.17418 hdl:loc.pnp/ppmsca.17417 aacr gihc DLC 070718 20250607021409.3 14933045 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.8 using MARC21slim2MODS3-8_XSLT1-0.xsl (Revision 1.172 20230208)