Photographs collected by the Palestine Exploration Fund depicting sites and peoples in Syria, Israel, and Palestine that relate to Biblical events. Sites include the Great Mosque in Damascus, Nazareth, a Samaritan camp, remains of synagogues, Mount Gerizim, and Jerusalem. The photographs, which were either made or funded by members of the Palestine Exploration Fund, were collected by the United States National Museum for the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1895. Many of them still have the accompanying text from that exhibit, including identification information and Biblical citations.
Biographical/Historical note:
The Palestine Exploration Fund was established in 1865 by a group of British academics and clergymen to "promote research into the archaeology and history, manners and customs and culture, topography, geology and natural sciences of biblical Palestine and the Levant."
This collection has been relocated from Photo Lot 79-38.
Additional Palestine Exploration Fund photographs, previously filed in Photo Lot 97, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 158.
Images of exhibits at the Cotton States and International Exposition can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds the Exposition Records of the Smithsonian Institution and the United States National Museum, 1867-1940 (SIA RU000070).
Additional material from the Palestine Exploration Fund can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accession 35833.
The Palestine Exploration Fund archives holds additional photographs and artifacts relating to its studies.
Restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Access to the collection requires an appointment.
Rights:
Contact the repository for terms of use.
Genre/Form:
Photographs
Citation:
Photo lot 158, Palestine Exploration Fund photograph collection, National Anthropological Archives, Smithsonian Institution.