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AMERICAN COLONY JERUSALEMBiblio.com
Pack train outside Damascus Gate.
ref. 65770Jerusalem; American Colony Jerusalem c.1898. Original gelatin silver print 29 x 24 cm showing a caravan of mules and camels outside the Damascus Gate in Jerusale;. bottom right corner stamped by the American Colony Jerusalem. Some light wrinkling a few small tears to the edges. Generally very good. The American Colony in Jerusalem was founded by Chicago Presbyterians Horatio and Anne Stafford in 1881. With an initial following of sixteen they set out to establish a Christian Utopia inside the Holy City's ancient walls. Horatio died of malaria in 1888 yet the movement continued to grow mainly preoccupying itself with feeding and educating the city's poor and disadvantaged. Charity of this kind required a regular stream of income which flowed in part from the sale of photographs taken initially by Elijah Meyers a Jewish convert living in Jerusalem. The Colony's Photographic Branch continued to document the sights and scenes of Jerusalem until internal disagreement lead to its dissolution in the 1950s. Jerusalem; American Colony Jerusalem, [c.1898]. unknown
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