Days Gone By

May 27 2012
12:41 am

American Colony (Jerusalem), Hand-tinted photograph of a peasant spinning wool, Ramallah, Palestine, 1919.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 7 hours ago
#1910s #ramallah #palestine #israel #middle east #vintage #portrait #history #west bank #wool #american colony

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May 26 2012
11:10 pm

American Colony (Jerusalem) Photo Department, Young woman of Ramallah wearing dowry headdress, Palestine, 1898-1914.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 8 hours ago
#1890s #1900s #1910s #vintage #portrait #history #ramallah #palestine #israel #west bank #middle east #american colony #dowry #wedding

12 notes

Mar 27 2012
11:32 pm

Workers in mother-of-pearl, Bethlehem, Palestine, 1898-1914.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 2 months ago
#1890s #1900s #1910s #vintage #bethlehem #palestine #israel #middle east #history

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Mar 27 2012
3:05 pm

Frank Scherschel, Jerusalem, Israel, May 1948.

Posted 2 months ago
#1940s #frank scherschel #israel #middle east #palestine #vintage #history

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Mar 27 2012
6:36 am

James E. Myers, Jewish children holding the Israeli flag while hanging out of a train window after having been released from Buchenwald Concentration Camp, on their way to Palestine at the end of World War II, Germany, June 1945.

Posted 2 months ago
#1940s #germany #wwII #world war II #jewish #children #israel #train #history #concentration camp #survivors #buchenwald #israeli flag #flag

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Mar 25 2012
6:36 am

Portrait of a family (from left to right - Abraham, Michael, Peter, Tifaha, and Louis Ayoub) from Ramallah, Palestine, 1905.

Posted 2 months ago
#1900s #ramallah #palestine #vintage #portrait #history #family #israel #middle east #children

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Mar 25 2012
6:07 am

Felix Bonfils, Entry of Pilgrims into Bethlehem at Christmas time, Palestine, 1867-1885.

Source: Library of Congress

Posted 2 months ago
#1860s #1870s #1880s #19th century #christmas #victorian #pilgrims #pilgrimage #christianity #religion #bethlehem #palestine #israel #middle east #felix bonfils

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Mar 22 2012
1:14 pm

Nablus, Palestine, 1898.

Posted 2 months ago
#1890s #19th century #victorians #victorian #nablus #palestine #israel #middle east #history #vintage #west bank

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Mar 22 2012
12:43 pm

Matson Photo Service, Jacob’s Well after iron mounting installed, Greek Orthodox chapel, Nablus, Palestine, 1934-1939.

Source: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, Library of Congress

Posted 2 months ago
#1930s #nablus #palestine #middle east #israel #jacob's well #history #religion #vintage

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Mar 22 2012
7:32 am

Yitzhaq ben Amram ben Shalma ben Tabia, High Priest of the Samaritans, Nablus, Palestine, ca. 1920.

Posted 2 months ago
#1920s #nablus #palestine #israel #middle east #vintage #portrait #history #samaritan #samaritans

96 notes