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Diary in photos, vol. V, 1939 - Public domain portrait print

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Diary in photos, vol. V, 1939 - Public domain portrait print

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Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region in 1939. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and photographer. Photographs include locations in Palestine (present day Israel and the West Bank), Jordan, Syria, and Lebanon. Included are ruins, Bedouin and Romani (Gypsy) life, and a demonstration against the White Paper in Jerusalem
Album page image number 1-17 (p. 1-19): Trip with Mr. and Mrs. Clement including a convoy of trucks on the Jericho road during the Arab rebellion, Tyre harbor and Belfort castle (Lebanon), and Banias (Syria); a botanical trip to W. Shaib (Wady Shaib, Jordan) including "Turkoman Gypsy" basket makers; "iris trip to Syria" including Krak des Chevaliers fortress, the Church of St. Simon (Kalat Siman), Byzantine ruins at Qasr el Banat, Bedouin woman digging for kimme (truffles), camel with babies, Emir Dahham's tent and Ford garage, Assyrian shepherd camp and Assyrian refugees near Tel Tamar (Tel Tamer), Gypsy sieve makers, women making a quilt, and Bedouins on road from Rakka to Palmyra.
Album page image number 18-37 (p. 20-39): Iris trip to Syria continued including Kasr el-Heir esh Sharki (Qasr al Hayr Sharqi) castle, and mosque at Sida (Lebanon); trip to Kerak and the Dead Sea including reapers at W[ady] el Hod (West Bank), watering animals at Birket el Hadj, Ras Khanzir Mountain, the Dead Sea, tents, people working in fields, Bedouin women, children at Ghoraniyeh, Crusader fortress of Kerak, and Bedouins including women at Skhur.
Album page image number 38-52 (p. 40-54): Jewish demonstration protesting the White Paper near the Terra Sancta building, Jerusalem; women picking apricots at Beit Jala (West Bank), "Negro Fallah and child"; trip to Syria including Pigeon Rocks at Beirut, women at a village faucet, winnowing, women drying and cooking burgul (bulgar) at Banias (Syria), potters closing a kiln, people harvesting "durrah," Lebanon mountains from Dhur Shweir (Dhur esh Shueir, Lebanon), village of Shafat or Nob (Israel), and women carrying brushwood on their heads.
Arrangement: Photographs arranged chronologically.
LOT title from album.
Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting. G. Eric Matson and others may have also taken some of the photographs. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the Matson Photo Service, the successor to the American Colony Photo Department (1898-1940). For more information about the American Colony Photo Department and the Matson Photo Service see: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.matpc. For more information about the John D. Whiting Collection see: 629_whiting.html
Album has parchment (vellum) bound cover. Handwritten on spine: Diary in Photos, Vol. V, 1939, Whiting.
Album unpaginated, album page numbers supplied by Library staff. Pages 53-58 are blank.
Captions for photographs found in list: Diary in photos, Vol, V, 1939, included with album. Other captions found in: Film catalogue, No. 2, [1938-1951]. Copy in John D. Whiting Supplementary Archive, Box 2.
John D. Whiting's diaries, correspondence, and other materials are located in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Papers of John D. Whiting).
Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting (Library of Congress).
Transfer; LC Manuscript Division; 2006; (DLC/PP-2006:051:44).
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American Colony, a non-denominational utopian Christian community was founded by a small group of American expatriates in Ottoman Palestine in 1881. The collection is a gift to the Library of Congress from the board of directors of the American Colony of Jerusalem, Ltd., which is made up of American, British, and Swedish descendants of the early colonists. The materials in the collection were initially retained by Bertha Vester in connection with her writing of the memoir Our Jerusalem (1950), and later by her daughter-in-law Valentine Vester and others at the American Colony Hotel. The collection focuses on the personal and business life of the colony from the waning years of the Ottoman Empire, through World War I and the British Mandate, and into the formation of the state of Israel. The bulk of the materials dates from 1870 to 1968 and relates to the leadership of the colony by members of the Spafford, Vester, and Whiting families. Photographs show members of the American Colony, a Christian community in Jerusalem founded by immigrants from the United States and Sweden. Includes photographs of American Colony leader Anna Spafford, her daughters Bertha (Spafford) Vester and Grace (Spafford) Whiting, Frederick Vester (husband of Bertha), John D. Whiting (husband of Grace), and her grandchildren (Anna Grace, Horatio, Tanetta and John (Jock) Vester, and Spafford and David (Whiting). Primarily portraits and photographs of the grandchildren as they take part in various activities, such as playing at the beach, participating in a July 4th pageant, having tea, celebrating first birthday, riding on a donkey, playing musical instruments, playing in garden and snow. Also includes a photograph of the American Colony store with Frederick Vester. Album page image number 1-12 (inside front cover-p. 11) Photographs include: a family portrait of Whiting and Vester families: Standing left to right: Jacob Spafford, Grace and John Whiting, Frederick and Anna Grace Vester; seated: Anna Spafford holding John (Jock) Vester?, Horatio Vester, Bertha Vester holding unidentified baby; floor: Tenetta Vester, Spafford and David Whiting. Grace Whiting holding Spafford, Anna Spafford holding David?; Jock and David in baby carriage, baby and toddler portraits, child playing outside with nurse, Spafford? celebrating first birthday, July 22, 1911; donkey ride, tea time, July 22, 1912; Spafford playing in leaves, feeding a horse and playing with water faucet, July 1911; family outing, portrait of Vester children, bath time for Spafford, and Vester children playing at the beach. Album page image number 13-26 (p. 12-25) Photographs include: Whiting family portrait (Grace, Spafford, John D.) 1911, Vester family portrait (Frederick, Anna Grace, Bertha), Bertha with Anna Grace on her back, Vester children playing in the garden and playing musical instruments with friends, Jock Vester and David Whiting feeding a turkey, Spafford Whiting in a baby carriage, Vester children pose with friends, Yates family, great grandmother Mary Whiting holding Spafford, children playing in the snow, Jacob Spafford? with child, Granny Hornstein, Selim Barakat, Vester children with Spafford, children with umbrellas, children on sled, woman and little girl standing outside, Anna Grace sitting with Tanetta and Horatio?, girls playing with dog, July 4th pageant (little boys lined up holding toy rifles), American Colony store with Frederick Vester standing out front, unidentified child with Spafford? and David? sitting in the grass, unidentified woman in Arab dress holding a child, Grace Whiting having tea with women, John D. Whiting and child riding on a donkey, David playing with plants, Whiting and Vester families at Ein Karem, David Whiting, and Spafford Whiting playing with hammer and wooden crates.

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01/01/1938
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Whiting, John D. (John David), 1882-1951, photographer
Matson, G. Eric (Gästgifvar Eric), 1888-1977, photographer
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Library of Congress
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