2 men on camels, Sinai Mts. i.e., mountains
Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and to the north of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking north... More
Sinai. Wady Feiran, el Mahrad, Peran
Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and the vicinity of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking west ... More
To Sinai via the desert. Jebel Tahuneh.
Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and to the north of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking north... More
Sinai. Jebel Tahuneh in Wady Feiran
Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and to the north of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking north... More
Sinai, 16th century Egypt. American colony in Jerusalem public domain ...
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. On guide card: Sinai, see p. 437-462. Photograph taken from an oasis on a key caravan... More
In the Sinai, 16th century. American colony in Jerusalem public domain...
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from the central section of Wadi El Qusaima (El Qadeirat) in the vic... More
Sinai, 16th century Egypt - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly El Raha Plain (Ahtha) the north most coastal plain or El Hbeg Plai... More
Sinai. Wady Feiran, Bedouin tents
Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim), possibly, downstream area to the west of the dense palm grove of Feiran Oasis somewhere in the vicinity of the close localities of El Nakhila, El Hswa, El ... More
In the Sinai, 16th century. American colony in Jerusalem public domain...
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. The landscape and the sequence of the photographs suggest somewhere on Darb El Hagg t... More
Camel drinking, Sinai Mts. i.e., mountains
Photograph taken from Wadi Feiran (Biblical Rephidim) at the junction with Wadi A'liyat and to the north of Tell El Mahrad, where the palm grove becomes sparse at the eastern edge of Feiran Oasis, looking north... More
Sinai, Bedouin woman grinding flour
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. On guide card: Sinai, see p. 437-462. Photograph taken in the oasis of Wadi Feiran, w... More
Bertha Spafford Vester, Anna Spafford, and Grace Spafford Whiting
Photograph shows a portrait of Anna Spafford with her two daughters Bertha (Spafford) Vester and Grace (Spafford) Whiting. In album: Studio portraits of members of the American Colony (Jerusalem), friends, and... More
Telegram from Anna Spafford to Horatio Gates Spafford re being "Saved ...
Handwritten cablegram, Atlantic Cable Message, The Western Union Telegraph Company. To [Horatio Gates] Spafford, 159 LaSalle St., Chicago [law office of H. G. Spafford]. Received at Chicago, Ill., Dec. 2d, 5:4... More
Telegram from Dwight L. Moody to Horatio Gates Spafford
Handwritten cable message, Post Office Telegraphs Co. Originating in Edinburgh; received 11 Queens Square, Bloomsbury, London. Dated stamp London Jan. 10, 1874. Evangelist Moody invites Horatio Gates Spafford... More
Business card of attorneys Horatio Gates Spafford, H. O. McDaid, & Joh...
Printed business card of law firm Spafford, McDaid & Wilson (H. G. Spafford, H. O. McDaid, and John P. Wilson) Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Room 37 Republic Life Building, 157 & 159 LaSalle Street, Chicago.
Jacob Spafford Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Photograph shows Jacob (Eliyahu) Spafford, member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front. In album: Portraits of the Whiting and Spafford families and other ... More
Elizebeth [i.e., Elizabeth] Gould
Photograph shows Elizabeth Gould, member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front. In album: Portraits of the Whiting and Spafford families and other members o... More
William Rudy, Cabinet photograph
Photograph shows William H. Rudy, member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing left.
Joanna Brooks [i.e. Johanna Brooke]
Photograph shows Clara Johanna Brooke, member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, three-quarter length portrait, standing, facing front. In album: Portraits of the Whiting and Spafford families and other memb... More
Map of Jerusalem by Horatio Gates Spafford
Hand-drawn map, ink and colored pencil on tissue paper, no date. Shows Old City and outskirts, to Mt. Scopus and Mt of Olives, with railroad and Carriage Road, and Valley of Dead Bodies. Areas related to Jer. 3... More
Manifesto by Colonel Ali Fouad re Ottoman Jerusalem and announcements ...
The American Colony in Jerusalem was a Christian utopian community that was established in Jerusalem in the late 19th century. The community was founded by a group of American and Swedish Christian fundamentali... More
Letter from Horatio Gates Spafford to A. Loivy Rev. Dr. A. Löwry, Secr...
Typed document, copy (draft), 1 p. Horatio Gates Spafford expresses thanks for letter received, and offers opinions regarding scriptural prophecy and Jewish restoration in Zion.
Grace [Spafford] Whiting [and] Bertha [Spafford] Vester
Photograph shows Grace (Spafford) Whiting (left) and Bertha (Spafford) Vester, full-length portrait, facing front, seated on sofa. In album: Portraits of the Whiting and Spafford families and other members of... More
Letter from A. Loivy Rev. Dr. A. Löwry, Secretary, Anglo-Jewish Associ...
Typed document, copy, 1 p. Re Executive Committee Anglo-Jewish Association praising Horatio Gates Spafford's work as an English teacher at the Lionel Rothschild School in Jerusalem, his lack of religious bias ... More
"In Memoriam" card with pressed Holy Land flowers and printed message,...
Printed "In Memoriam" card with pressed Holy Land flowers applied, made by the American Colony in Jerusalem Flower Card Department. With prayer for male departed. Associated with memorial service for Horatio Ga... More
"In Memoriam" card with pressed Holy Land flowers and printed message,...
The American Colony in Jerusalem was a Christian utopian community that was established in Jerusalem in the late 19th century. The community was founded by a group of American and Swedish Christian fundamentali... More
Jerash Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative: 2639. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Deir Seidnaya Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Damascus, Deir Seidnaya, p. 694-5. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Russian compound, Jerusalem Middle East photographs, American Colony J...
Title from negative and list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108. On negative: 286. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Pool of Siloam Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative sleeve: 121. Caption on negative: Pool of Siloam. On negative: 121. Guide... More
Railroad station Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Arab peasant women carrying brush collected as fuel
Title from paper label. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On guide card: Misc. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Moslem minaret of edge of temple area, Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Trees in field Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service On guide card: Misc. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Upper section of Temple of el-Khazne in Petra
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On transparency: No. 3. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Tel. Co. i.e., Telephone Company switchboard
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Antique glass, stone items, etc
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Flowers Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Icons Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Moulting locust Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Locust plague. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Neby i.e., Nebi Rubin encampment
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 12961-13944. Caption on negative sleeve: From Matson's "Arab types drawer" (Nabi Nubrin box). Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its suc... More
Ruth series, Ruth the Moabitess
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Mosque of Omar i.e., Dome of the Rock
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108. Caption continues from catalog: Duplicates of cataloged photos?. On negative: 2094. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its ... More
Galilee fisherman Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Galilee fisherman. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
N. Palestine Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Ruins of Roman Odeon at Amman, Jordan
(Source: researcher J. Seigne, 2011) Caption on negative sleeve and guide card misidentifies location as "Jerash".. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Servi... More
Miscellaneous paintings Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerus...
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Faience Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Moselmeih, beehive village on Baghdad Railway
Photograph shows beehive houses near Aleppo, Syria. Title from negative sleeve. On negative: 3333. On negative sleeve: See 1775, 3333. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the M... More
Jerash Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Jerash. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Flood-war damage Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Baalbek. Temple of Bacchus. The leaning column
Picryl description: Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Sinai. Ras Safsaf (Mt. Sinai), near view from Wady er-Raha. / American...
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The former Palestine Archaeological Museum & objects in the museum
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Shepherd with flocks before Mt. Horeb Mt. Sinai
Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from the southeastern end of EL Raha Plain (Biblical encampment of the Israelites), looking southeast and showing Wadi Sharig and the pointed summit of Ras El Sefsa... More
A locust Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Locust plague. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Dead Sea Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Nazareth, Home of Christ, Church of the Annunciation
Title and date based on caption for similar images (LC-M36-821, LC-M36-821-A, and LC-M36-821-B). Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative: 54... More
Polish consulate Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Polish Consulate. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Convent of St. Cath. i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Greek Ch. above VIIIth St i.e., Greek Church above the 8th Station of ...
Title from negative. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Stations of the Cross and the Rosary. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Woman of Nazareth Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. On negative sleeve: See A327, p. 254. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Flint collection Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Beehive houses in modern Harran
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative. Caption on negative sleeve: Beehive houses in modern Harran. On negative: H.T. 56, H-50. On n... More
Shepherd and sheep Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Well at St. Cath. i.e., Monastery of St. Catherine, Sinai
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Sinai. Photograph taken from the western end of the southern alley of the... More
Flowers Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On guide card: duplicates. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jerusalem from the Jericho Road (from the southeast)
Title from: list, Photographic subjects of Bible Lands. Caption on negative: Jerusalem from the Jericho Road. (From the S.E.) Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Pho... More
Jerusalem (El-Kouds). First view of Jerusalem from the south / America...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an ancient city, historic place, stone buildings architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Petra. Obelisk of Zibb'Atuf / American Colony, Jerusalem.
Public domain vintage artistic photograph, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
North Palestine botanical trip before 1917
Picryl description: Public domain image of famine, hunger, powerty, refugees, people suffering, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Inscription excavations Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerus...
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Ancient inscription excavations carved wall at Mashita, east of Jordan. G... More
Jerusalem to Galilee via Samaria. Lake of Galilee near Magdala. ("El M...
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Title from: list, Photographic subjects of Bible Lands. Caption on negative: Lake of Galilee, near Magdala. Gift; ... More
Beth Shemesh Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Beth Shemesh. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Temple of Baal.; southern front of the "Cella"
Title from negative. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative: x59. Guide card: Palmyra. Drawer #6 11247-11297. Stein. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Callirrhoe? Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Trans-Jordan, misc. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
American colony group during Askalon trip
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: American colony group: camping at Askalon. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Lebanon. Arz el Rub, "God's Cedar"
Public domain photograph, 1930s-1940s Jerusalem, Palestine, History of Israel, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Bedouin woman and child in tent
On negative: 2899. On negative sleeve: 2899. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Dead Sea Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Dead Sea. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Arab Peasants. Reaping scenes. Mt. of Olives in background
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Bedouin woman, milking Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusa...
Title from negative. Caption on negative sleeve: Beduin [i.e., Bedouin] woman, milking. On negative: 2849, 626. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gi... More
In the Sinai Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from negative sleeve. Photograph taken from the southeastern end of EL Raha Plain (Biblical encampment of the Israelites), looking southeast and showing the mountain slopes of Ras El Sefsafa (Monacha, Bib... More
Jerusalem from Olivet Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusal...
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Solomon's Quarries Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On guide card: plus 3 negs. of ancient tomb. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
N. Palestine Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Crane unloading crated Dodge at Jaffa
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service Title from negative sleeve. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Syria. Damascus. In Straight Street
Title from: list, Photographic subjects of Bible Lands. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Trans-Jordan. Petra. Funeral chapel of the Roman style
Title from: list, Photographic subjects of Bible Lands. Caption on negative: Petra. Funereal chapel of the Roman style. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Ser... More
23rd Psalm, sheep Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
23rd Psalm, sheep Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On guide card: duplicates. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
23rd Psalm, sheep Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On guide card: duplicates. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
23rd Psalm, sheep Middle East photographs, American Colony Jerusalem
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Temple Area, Tower of Antonia thru arch
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative sleeve: see 372 F. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jerusalem (El-Kouds). Towers of David and Hippicus. / American Colony,...
Public domain image of an old ancient city, historic place, stone building architecture, medieval, 14th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
Jerusalem (El-Kouds). Absalom's Pillar / American Colony, Jerusalem.
Public domain photo of a monument, historic place, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Tower of Antonia, Jerusalem. / American Colony, Jerusalem
Picryl description: Public domain image of a romantic landscape with ruins, historical building, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Costumes and characters, etc. Family group, Ramallah / American Colony...
Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
East of Jordan and the Dead Sea. Mount Nebo from 'Ayoun Mousa / Americ...
Public domain photograph of Jerusalem, Israel, Palestine, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
[Sinai. Monastery of St. Catherine, Greek monks at the modern entrance...
Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description