What's Inside?
Updated Table of Contents by Subject
The Library of Congress' photo collection of 22,000 pictures from the century-old American Colony photo department in the Holy Land is a credit to the Library, the curators, the restorers, and, of course, the members of the American Colony, themselves.
Our recent postings included evidence that these Christian utopians were "Zionists" well before Theodore Herzl, rejoicing in the return of Jews to Eretz Yisrael. The choice of photo subjects was remarkably "Jewish-friendly," a fact absent from other studies of the Colony's photos.
We also published newly-found pictures from a Scottish university's medical archives where we unexpectedly found photographs of the citizens of Tiberias.
We present this Table of Contents of more than 290 essays and hundreds of pictures to assist you in viewing this incredible historical treasure.
We also published newly-found pictures from a Scottish university's medical archives where we unexpectedly found photographs of the citizens of Tiberias.
We present this Table of Contents of more than 290 essays and hundreds of pictures to assist you in viewing this incredible historical treasure.
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Biblical Sites
- Cave of the Patriarch, Hebron
- Joseph's Tomb, Shechem (Nablus)
- Kotel (Western Wall) - oldest picture?
- Kotel - First pictures publicized
- Kotel
- Beneath the Temple Mount
- Rachel's Tomb, Bethlehem
- Book of Ruth, photographic recreation
- Ezekiel's Tomb, Kifl Iraq
- King David's Tomb
- Agricultural prohibitions
- Masada
- Solomon's Pools 1, Solomon's Pools 2
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| Turkish guard at Joseph's Tomb, 1900 |
Jerusalem
- Jewish Quarter
- Mt. of Olives
- 1949-1967 under Jordanian rule
- Expulsions of Jews, 1929, 1936, 1948
- Sabbath walk in the Old City
Snow at the Kotel (1921) - Light railroad line
- Snow 1
- Snow 2
- Jaffa Road
- Montefiore Windmill
- Meah She'arim 1
- Meah She'arim 2
- Everyday life
- Mt. Zion Hotel - St. John's Eye Hospital
- Funeral in Jerusalem
- Bukharan Quarter
- Nablus Road - where history marched
- The Citadel under Turkish rule
- The Citadel under British rule
- Mishkenot Sha'ananim
- King David Hotel bombing
- Bataei Machseh in the Old City
- Hebrew University
- Hebrew University foundation stone 1918
- Steamroller in Jerusalem Steamroller 2
- Jerusalem's Speed Limit
- Italian Hospital
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| Jaffa Gate, hand colored |
- Gates of Jerusalem
- Color photographs of the gates
- Damascus Gate
- Dung Gate
- Golden Gate
- Herod's Gate
- Jaffa Gate
- Lions Gate
- New Gate
- Zion Gate 1
- Zion Gate 2
- Zion Gate 3
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| Samaritan priest |
Jewish holidays
- Rosh Hashanna and the Shofar
- Yom Kippur at the Western Wall
- Sukkot
- Purim 1, Purim 2
- Tu B'Shvat tree-planting
- Tu B'Shvat trees of the Holy Land
- Passover, Yemenite Seder
- Lag B'Omer, Jerusalem 1
- Lag B'Omer, Jerusalem 2
- Lag B'Omer, Meron
- Tisha B'Av at the Western Wall
- Tisha B'Av
- Announcing the Sabbath
- Sabbath walk to the Western Wall
World War I
- Battle for Beersheva
- Battle for Gaza 1
- Battle for Gaza 2
- German general prevented massacre of Jews
- German commander who saved Jerusalem
- Turkish and German troops
- Prisoners of war
- Surrender of Jerusalem to British
- Cemetery for German pilots
- Battle for Tel a-Ful, Jerusalem
- Battle for Nebi Samuel
- Turkish naval base at the Dead Sea
- German weapons found at the Dead Sea
- Who is Colonel Coventry in Jerusalem?
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| Turkish troops at Nebi Samuel,1917 |
Anti-Jewish activity
- Hebron massacre 1929
- Tiberias massacre 1938
- Expulsion of Jews from Jerusalem
- British "White Paper" against Jewish immigration
- Women's Demonstration against the White Paper 1939
- Synagogues (destroyed) in Jerusalem 1
- Synagogues (destroyed) in Jerusalem 2
- Synagogues (destroyed) in Jerusalem 3
- Synagogues (destroyed) in Jerusalem 4
- Hassan Bey, the Hated Turkish Ruler
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| Aftermath of Hebron massacre |
Economic activity
- Tel Aviv port
- Haifa port 1
- Haifa port 2
- Iraqi oil exports via Haifa
- Jewish industries 1
- Jewish industries 2
- Money-changing
- Graf-Zepellin over Jerusalem
- First aircraft
- Printing the first stamps
- Jerusalem Old City shopkeepers
- Immigration, Aliya
- Potash works at the Dead Sea
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| Building Haifa Port |
Agricultural Activity
- Orange season
Harvesting grapes in Zichron Yaakov - Agriculture
- Locust plague of 1915
- Mikveh Yisrael Agricultural School (1898)
- Vineyards restored to the land
- Honey production for the New Year
- Carding Cotton
- Trees of the Holy Land
- Arab Revolt 1936 - 1939
- Precurser: Arab disturbances 1920, 1921
- The Arab revolt 1
- The Arab revolt 2
- The Arab revolt and the 1938 British annual report
- Attack on the railroads 1
- Attack on the railroads 2
- Attack on the railroads 3
- British response 1
- British response 2
- British Convoys
- British turn on the Jews of Palestine
- Palestine as "southern Syria"
- Arab market in Jewish neighborhood
- The Jews of Jerusalem
- Civil Defense
- British soldiers deploy to stop riots
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| Train detrailed in Arab revolt |
Groups (by their origin, religion, ethnicity)
- Christian pilgrims
- Russian Christian pilgrims
- Yemenite Jews 1, and the American Colony
- Yemenite Jews 2, and the Turkish capitulations
- Yemenite Jews 3 celebrate Passover
- Yemenite Jews 4
- Bukhari wedding in Samarkand, 1870
- Bukhari community in Samarkand
- Ultra-Orthodox Jews, portrayed by actors 1
- Ultra-Orthodox Jews, actors 2
- Samaritans, Passover
Jerusalem boy, 1930s - Samaritans, Tiberias
- Jewish women farmers 1
- Jewish women farmers 2
- Women at the Kotel
- Jewish Philharmonic
- Russian Proselytes from "Khudera"
- Children of the Old Yishuv
- Elderly Jews from the Old Yeshuv
- Elderly Jews of Jerusalem
- Old Jewish men in the Old City
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| Bukhari wedding, 1870 |
Ancient towns
- Safed (Tzfat)
- Beer Sheva
- Silwan village and a Yemenite Jew
- Tiberias 1, Tiberias 2
- Tiberias Jewry, Scot Hospital
- Jaffa and the mysterious railroad
Jewish Towns -- New
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| Children in Ben-Shemen (1920) |
- Zichron Yaakov
- Rishon LeZion
- Degania
- Tel Aviv
- Tel Aviv beach
- Kibbutz Ein Harod
- Kibbutz Geva
- Metullah
- Talpiot
- Hadera
- Gat
- Ein Gev -- "Tower and Stockade"
- Negba
- Ben Shemen
- Jezreel Valley
- Bnai Brak
- Mikve Yisrael
- Kfar Chassidim
- "Jewish colonies and settlements"
- Talbieh
- Kiryat Anavim
- Maaleh HaChamisha
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| 1927 earthquake |
Locations/Events
- Deir Yassin
- Homs and Hama in Syria
- Tribute to the people of Syria
- Damascus Revolt 1895
- Damascus Revolt 1925
- Ancient Aleppo
- Arab weddings in Judea and Samaria
- The first zoo in the Holy Land
- Earthquake!
- July 4 celebrations in Jerusalem
- Christmas in Bethlehem
- The Palace Hotel in Jerusalem
- Football in the Holy Land
- Tiberias flood
Extinct or Vanishing Jewish Communities
- Jews of Aleppo
- Jews of Alexandria
- Jews of Constantinople
- Jews of Damascus
- Jews of Kifl, Iraq (Ezekiel's Tomb)
- Jews of Tunis
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| Jews of Aleppo |
Individuals
- General Allenby
- General Allenby martial law
- Lord Alfred Balfour 1
- Lord Alfred Balfour 2
- Eliezer Ben-Yehuda
- Chaim Nachman Bialik, funeral
- Louis Brandeis, Nathan Straus, Stephen Weiss
- Winston Churchill 1
- Winston Churchill 2
Rabbi Kook in Washington DC 1924 - Rabbis
- Rabbi Kook
- Rabbi Kook meets President Coolidge in Washington 1
- Rabbi Kook meets President Coolidge in Washington 2
- Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner 1
- Herbert Samuel, British High Commissioner 2
- Jacob Eliahu Spafford
- Yosef Trumpledor
- Mark Twain in the Holy Land
- William Seward
- Charles Warren
- Mendel Kremer, Turkish soldier and spy?
- Congressional visit, 1936
German Emperor in Palestine 1898 - Abraham Lincoln
- Jews welcome the German Emperor 1898
- The Pashas in Jerusalem 1916
- Pinchas Ruttenberg
- Jerusalem's Valero family
- Photographer Mendel Diness AKA Mendenhall John Dennis
- Photographer Elijah Meyers
- Elizabeth Dilling
- Dr. David Torrence
Film clips
- 1896 first film
- 1913 Travelogue
- 1918 film
- 1921 Rabbi Kook leaving Churchill and Samuel
- 1925 Albert Kahn
- A collection of the earliest films
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