Arab protest delegations, demonstrations and strikes against British policy in Palestine (subsequent to the foregoing disturbances 1929 riots). Arab womens' delegation to the High Commissioner. Taken at the entrance of residency
Summary
Photograph show a delgation of Palestinian women protesting increased Jewish immigration at the British High Commissioner's Residence in 1929. Shown are (from left), second: Matiel Mughannam, fourth and fifth: the Nasir sisters, with Nabiha Nasir, founder of Birzeit College at fifth; seventh: Basma Faris, principal of the Maʻmuniyya School. (Source: Jerusalem interrupted: modernity and colonial transformation 1917-present / ed. Lena Jayyusi. Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press, 2010, p. 184)
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?].
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
The G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection is a source of historical images of the Middle East. The majority of the images depict Palestine (present-day Israel and the West Bank) from 1898 to 1946. Most of the Library of Congress collection consists of over 23,000 glass and film photographic negatives and transparencies created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor firm, the Matson Photo Service. The American Colony Photo Department in Jerusalem was one of several photo services operating in the Middle East before 1900. Catering primarily to the tourist trade, the American Colony and its competitors photographed holy sites, often including costumed actors recreating Biblical scenes. The firm’s photographers were residents of Palestine with knowledge of the land and people that gave them an advantage and made their coverage intimate and comprehensive. They documented Middle East culture, history, and political events from before World War I through the collapse of Ottoman rule, the British Mandate period, World War II, and the emergence of the State of Israel. The Matson Collection also includes images of people and locations in present-day Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Turkey. Additionally, the firm produced photographs from an East African trip. The collection came to the Library of Congress between 1966 and 1981, through a series of gifts made by Eric Matson and his beneficiary, the Home for the Aged of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Los Angeles (now called the Kensington Episcopal Home).
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