- Additional Authors
- Hurlbutt, Jesse Lyman
- Description
- 100 stereographs (photographic prints) : albumen, b&w; 90 x 180 mm.
- Summary
- Views in the Holy Land, including Jaffa: general view from harbor, view of the bazaar and the supposed home of Simon the Tanner; plain of Sharon; general views of and travelers near Lydda; women carrying water in Amwas (Emmaus); plowing with oxen in Valley of Ajalon; Jerusalem: general views, the Tower of David, Jaffa and Damascus gates, valley of Kedron, including tombs of the prophets and pool of Siloam, a cattle market, Garden of Gethsemane and Mount of Olives, Christian Street, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, including interior and religious procession, interior in Armenian Church, pilgrims on the Via Dolorosa, the Wailing Wall, Calvary, Jesus's tomb, Dome of the Rock including interior, interior of Mosque el-Aksa, lepers, road to and views of Bethany; Bethlehem: Church of the Nativity, general view and barley harvest nearby; Hebron including Mosque Machpelah; Judea, including Convent of Mar Saba; the Dead Sea; River Jordan, including baptism scene and river's source; plains of Jericho; fountain of Elisha, and plains of Jordan from ruins of Jericho; Brook Cherith and Convent of Elijah; street in R⁾amah, gathering wheat in Bethel, Shiloh, Jacob's well, Samaritan woman at well; Samaritan High priest and Pentateuch Roll; Samaritan women grinding wheat, general view of Nablus, Samaria, including "Herod's street of columns"; Plain of Dothan and Joseph's Well; Gideon's Spring and Gideon's Battlefield, Jezreel.
- Views in the Holy Land, cont.: village of Nain and Mt. Tabor; Nazareth: general view, fountain of the Virgin, temple where Jesus's preached, and Christian girl; plain of Esdraelon, Mt. Carmel, including view of Elijah's altar, River of Kishon, Druse women at village oven, Dalieh, Mt. Carmel; Haifa and bay of Akka, Cana, Sea of Galilee: Tiberias, including fishing boats and fishermen, traditional locations of Bethsaida and Capernaum; Roman bridge over the Hasbany; Caesarea Philippi including gate and "summer houses" on roofs of homes; man fishing among the ruins of Tyre; a citadel at Sidon, and Zahleh, Lebanon, ruins of Ba̓labak; Damascus: general views, including minarets, inner court of a home and the reception room of a Pasha.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Albumen prints.
- Photographic prints.
- Stereographs.
- Note
- Title from box. Accompanying book by Jesse Lyman Hurlbutt is titled Traveling in the Holy Land through the stereoscope, and contains descriptions of each view, topographic maps showing locations of views, historic overview of the region, an index and advertisements for other stereograph sets.
- Views are numbered 1-100.
- Provenance (note)
- Gift of Mrs. George R. Collins, 1993.
- Call Number
- MFZ (Underwood) 94-407
- OCLC
- NYPG94-F282
- Author
Underwood & Underwood, publisher.
- Title
Palestine [graphic] / Underwood & Underwood.
- Imprint
Littleton, N.H., New York, etc. : Underwood & Underwood, 1900.
- Provenance
Gift of Mrs. George R. Collins, 1993.
- Added Author
Hurlbutt, Jesse Lyman. Traveling in the Holy Land through the stereoscope.
- Research Call Number
MFZ (Underwood) 94-407