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Collector:
Palestine Exploration Fund  Search this
Extent:
56 Albumen prints (mounted)
Culture:
Palestinian Arabs  Search this
Jews  Search this
Samaritans  Search this
Type:
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Albumen prints
Photographs
Place:
Middle East -- Antiquities
Syria
Israel
Palestine
Date:
circa 1890-1895
Scope and Contents note:
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."
Local Call Number(s):
NAA Photo Lot 158, USNM ACC 29586, USNM ACC 22944, USNM ACC 23302
Location of Other Archival Materials:
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.
Identifier:
NAA.PhotoLot.158
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Palestine Exploration Fund photograph collection
Archival Repository:
National Anthropological Archives
GUID:
https://n2t.net/ark:/65665/nw3b6d4b4dd-3569-4744-b353-8090af969a9e
EDAN-URL:
ead_collection:sova-naa-photolot-158