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To Sinai by car. Car rushing a sand dune near Bir Hassana
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Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?].
Date from Matson LOT cards.
Photograph taken from the vicinity of Bir El Hassana. (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
Paleolithic tools (older than 17,000 BCE) were found at Bir El Hassana. It is located at the crossroad of the Nabatean trade route between Egypt and Arabia (1st century CE) and later El Shatt-Darb Gaza and Darb El Sherif (El Shatt-El Qusaima). A tribal battle took place between Tarabien tribe (16th centuries CE) and Sawarka (17th century CE) and Rumiylat (18th century CE) tribes at Bir El Hassana in 19th century CE. The first asphalt roads from El Shatt-Darb Ghaza to the north of Bir El Hassana (to Al Arish) and from El Shatt of the Gulf of Suez to El Qusaima on the border of the Negev Desert along Darb El Sherif to the south of Bir El Hassana were constructed by the Egyptian Corps of Engineers in 1950-51 CE (and later extended to the east in 1956-58 CE). (Source: A. Shams, Sinai Peninsula Research, 2018)
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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