Sinai. Wilderness of Shur. Exodus 15:22
Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. Photograph taken from Sinai's western coast on the Gulf of Suez at one of the coastal or inland plains(?), possibly ... More
Vendors with cauliflowers at outdoor market, Jerusalem?
On guide card: Various Tel Aviv, etc. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Around the Dead Sea (Bahr Lut). 'Ain Jiddy looking south
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative sleeve: The Dead Sea. On negative sleeve: Similar to 1223 p. 383 vol. II looking south from Ain Jiddy. Similar imag... More
Jaffa Gate 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. Caption on negative: Jaffa Gate. On negative: 12. Guide card: Gates of the City of Je... More
Jaffa (Joppa) and environs. Sailing vessel among the rocks
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative: Sailing vessel among the rocks, Jaffa. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Shemen Ltd. Soap Works. Haifa - Public domain image. Dry plate negativ...
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 12961-13944. Caption on negative sleeve: "Shemen" Ltd, soap works. Haifa. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Ph... More
Nazareth, old city street - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Nazareth. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Famous religious paintings. The Sorrowful Mother, from Coreggio, in Ch...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption on negative sleeve: Painting. On negative sleeve: B389. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Costumes, characters, etc. Maiden picking olives from branches
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Maiden picking olives from branches. On negative sleeve: 6/94. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Amman, the theatre from castle hill
Photograph showing aerial view of section of Jordan on a hillside. Original negative: LC-M31-3325. No. P-244. On verso - American Colony Photo Cards, copyrighted. On verso: American Colony Stores, Jerusalem. ... More
Jerusalem (El-Kouds). Jaffa Gate
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. Caption continues from catalog: Jaffa Gate showing clock tower, 1914-1918. On negative: 5029. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
The terrible plague of locusts in Palestine, March-June 1915. Olive tr...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. On negative: 28. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Soldiers' graves, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title from negative sleeve. Guide card: War cemeteries. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Damascus and environs. Damascus. One of the city squares
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. On negative: 3687 (crossed out). Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Palmyra. Western cemetery. Some of the tomb towers
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. From catalog: x-33. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Christian Bedouin Madonna - Mother and swaddled baby at a tent home
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Forms part of: the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection.
Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Baghdad. River scenes on the Tigris. The Tigris. ...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. From catalog: Hiddekel Gen. 2:4; Daniel 10:4. Handwritten annotation in catalog: Films were taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Epi... More
Iraq. Babylon. Basalt lion marking Daniel's den
Title from negative sleeve. On negative sleeve: Iraq copy negs. Taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Air route to Baghdad via Amman and the desert. Kadimain. Closer view s...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Air route to Baghdad via Amman and the desert. Aircraft "Apollo" at Ru...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Iraq. (Mesopotamia). Baghdad. Views, street scenes, and types. Typical...
(Source: similar Matson negative: LC-M33-4568) On negative sleeve: Iraq, basket weavers. On negative sleeve: Dup. films. Taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Queen of Abyssinia, Sept. 26, 1933
Photograph shows Empress Menen Asfaw (1883-1962), wife of Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia probably in Jerusalem. Title from negative sleeve. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
A hewer of wood in Palestine. Chopping olive wood
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Bethlehem. Shepherd's Fields. Xmas i.e., Christmas subjects
Photograph shows a man and a donkey in front of a round stone tower, near a stone wall. Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Oct. 193... More
Street in older Nazareth, vegetable market
Title from caption on envelope. On verso: Copyright, the Matson Photo Service, Jerusalem, Palestine. Forms part of: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).
Bethlehem woman in narrow street
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Market at Tiberias, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
A Palestine Madonna, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Two photos are on one glass plate; left half shows LC-M32-10171-A; right half shows LC-M32-10171. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
St. George's Cathedral, Jerusalem. The baptismal font
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Prince Emir Saud's visit to Emir Abdullah in Amman, Transjordan. Emirs...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken on August 17, 1935. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Palestine disturbances 1936. Mobile search-lights mounted on lorries
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Africa, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title from negative sleeve. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978. Public domain photograph related to native African people, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Sudan. Khartoum. River in foreground
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. From catalog: East Africa copyright photos by G. Eric Matson, American Colony Photo Dept. Monotone, Finlay colour, and Infra red photos, taken ... More
Palestine disturbances 1936. Artillery tractor
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Egypt. Cairo. Evening scene of Nile overflow near pyramids
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption continues from catalog: Finlay color negative. From catalog: East Africa copyright photos by G. Eric Matson, American Colony Photo Dept... More
Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Australian Club (old Fast Hotel, Jer. i.e., Jerusalem)
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. From catalog: See 12837 St. Andrews House. Caption continues from catalog: Oct. 10, '40. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Bethlehem. Almond tree in blossom
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978. Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946].
Bethlehem from the south
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978. Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946].
Buildings in Jerusalem. Arab homes on Mt. Scopus (Arab Jerusalem)
Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. On slide mount: Arab homes on Mt. Scopus. On slide mount: Copyright Matson Photo Service. From photographer's logboo... More
Northward from Jerusalem. Endor village. I Sam. 28:7
Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. On slide mount: Village of Endor. On slide mount: Copyright Matson Photo Service. Color slide reproduced from black ... More
Shepherds' Fields east of Bethlehem
Title from: list, Negatives ... from our art catalogue. On negative sleeve: 11X14. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Landing place, Jaffa, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title from negative. Caption on negative sleeve: Landing place, Jaffa. Caption from catalog: Jaffa (Joppa) and environs. The landing place. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jaffa Port, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 12961-13944. Caption continues from catalog: M3201. Caption on negative sleeve: Jaffa port. On negative: 4138. On negative sleeve: 0033. Taken either by the ... More
Three women seated on carpet, Bethlehem. American Colony, Jerusalem
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Date from Matson LOT cards. On negative: 601. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Ruth series. Beit Sahur & Bethlehem. Harvesting, etc
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Ruth series. Threshing floor, winnowing, etc
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On guide card: Dup. subjects for the Ruth series. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Cedar pulpit, Mosque el-Aksa i.e., al-Aqsa American Colony, Jerusalem
Title from negative. Title from: list, Matson Collection negative numbers 14565-15108: Jerusalem. Caption on negative sleeve: The cedar pulpit in al-Aksa. On negative sleeve: See 109, p. 99. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Copy of painting of young boy with lion, sheep, and other animals
On guide card: Altar at the 11th Station of the Cross in Church of the Holy Sepulchre? Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Bust of a Bedouin. Bedouiner. Un Bédouin / American Colony, Jerusalem.
Bedouin man, half-length portrait, facing front, holding a sheathed dagger. Title taken from item. On mount label: Original negative LC-M36-615. Forms part of: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection (Li... More
Russian Excavations (Alexander Hospice), showing lost eastern parts of...
(Source: researchers T. Bolen and T. Powers, 2009) Title in Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?], misidentifies image as: Various views inside the city. Ruins of city wall and ancient gate. ... More
Church of the Holy Sepulchre and surroundings. Pool of Hezekiah
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Tripoli. Train on Tripoli-Homs Railway
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Train on Tripoli-Homs Railway. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Southern Palestine. Wilderness of Tekoah
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Wilderness of Tekoah. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Via Dolorosa, beginning at St. Stephen's Gate. Eighth Station of the C...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Eighth Station of the Cross. On negative: 2157. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Religious paintings in Palestine. The Holy Family, by Fran ois le Fond
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative sleeve: Painting by Francois Le Fond in Nazareth. On negative sleeve: USE THIS. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal... More
Military Cemetery on Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem, #12
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor the Matson Photo Service. Title from negative sleeve. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Bedouin life in Trans-Jordan. An array of coffee pots around the fire
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Revival of the famous faience work in Jerusalem. Girls decorating vase...
Photograph shows girls painting pottery vases at the Dome of the Rock Tiles workshop, Via Dolorosa, Jerusalem. The workshop was run by Armenian ceramicist David Ohannessian. (Source: researcher S. Moughalian, 2... More
Beersheba and surroundings. (Beer Saba). A Beersheba Bedouin home. Wom...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Beersheba and surroundings. (Beer Saba). Carrying water to the camp. J...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Refugees, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Photograph shows men, women and children near tree and temporary shelter, probably after the Jericho earthquake in July 11, 1927. Creator name based on date. Title from negative sleeve. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Imperial Airways plane, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title from negative sleeve. Ceremony at Kalendia Aerodrome near Ramallah to christen a de Havilland "Hercules" airliner of the Imperial Airways as the "City of Jerusalem." (Source: tonyhalley09 account in Flic... More
Iraq. Ur. (So called of the Chaldees). The great ziggurat
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Handwritten annotation in catalog: Films were taken between Sept. 26 and Oct. 12, 1932. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Alexandretta & bay. Main boulevard
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Egypt. Sphinx & pyramids. Sphinx (rear view)
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Egypt. Pyramids of Gizeh. The Great Pyramid. Reflecting pyramid & moun...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Fort Portal, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title from negative. Caption on negative sleeve: Africa. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Palestine disturbances 1936. Native houses at Halhul village blown up ...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jenin, dynamiting etc., Sept. 1938
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. From catalog: Duplicate films. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jewish factories in Palestine on Plain of Sharon & along the coast to ...
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 1, [1934-1939]. Caption continues from catalog: Taken March 1939. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Jerash, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Opening of augmented water source in Jaamri Country at Ain Hamda, S.E....
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. Caption continues from catalog: Nov. 6, 1940. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
King George VI, Israel, Matson photograph collection
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978. Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946].
Free French soldiers on July 14, 1941 at Bethlehem French Hospital
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946]. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Ave. Wegand leading toward Place des Cannons?, Beirut
Caption from catalog: July 1945. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978. Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946].
Jerusalem. Gehenna and Akeldama. Acts 1:19, Matt. 27:7-8
Title from: Matson color slides and filmstrips of Bible Lands ... , the Matson Photo Service. On slide mount: Gehenna & Akeldama. On slide mount: Copyright Matson Photo Service. Color slide reproduced from blac... More
Diary in photos, vol. IV, 1938 - Public domain portrait
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from June 30 to Dec. 31, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and pho... More
Diary in photos, vol. IV, 1938 - Public domain portrait print
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from June 30 to Dec. 31, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and pho... More
Diary in photos, vol. IV, 1938 - Public domain portrait print
Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips around the Middle East region from June 30 to Dec. 31, 1938. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem, worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer, and pho... More
To Sinai by car. El Kossaima. Distant view looking eastward toward Ain...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Photograph taken from the frontier centre of El Qusaima to the west, looking east and showing the spring and orchar... More
Petra - el-Kazne i.e., el-Khazne
Title from negative sleeve. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. Guide card: Petra. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Harvesting and threshing floor scenes in the story of Ruth & Boaz
Title from guide card. Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On guide card: Dups. of set "Ruth the Moabitess". Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Petra. Front view of Temple of el-Khazneh
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. On negative: 5579. Copy print verso: Front view of Temple of el-Khazneh, Jordan. Similar image in LOT 13847, p. 45, no. 22. (http://hd... More
Jews at Wailing Wall - Public domain image. Dry plate negative.
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.
Olive tree branches with olives
Taken either by the American Colony Photo Department or its successor, the Matson Photo Service. On negative: 369. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Set of paintings of Christ's Passion, by Kosheleff, in Russian Hospice...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs made by the American Colony ... 1914. On negative: 1138. On negative sleeve: Painting #1379. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Southern Palestine. Columbarium Beit Jibrin
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Caption on negative: Columbarium. Identified as Beit Jibrin based on captions for negatives with neighboring numbers. Date from Matson LOT card... More
To Sinai via the Red Sea, Tor, and Wady Hebran. Preparing to leave Sin...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Photograph taken from the central area of Wadi El Dier (Biblical Holy Valley) adjacent to the eastern wall of Saint Catherine Monastery, lookin... More
Egyptian hotels Ltd., Cairo. Shepheard's Hotel. Exterior
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. On negative: 2. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Agriculture, etc. Shepherd scenes. Village sheep-cote at Sharafat i.e....
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. On negative sleeve: 6/91. Date from Matson LOT cards. Location also known as Sharafat. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Nahalal. Girls' Agricultural Training School. Watering flower garden. ...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Agriculture, etc. Shepherd scenes. Pastoral scene in the Jordan valley...
Title from: Catalogue of photographs & lantern slides ... [1936?]. On negative: 4. Date from Matson LOT cards. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
H.S. i.e., Haile Selassie in robe
Creator name based on date. Title from negative sleeve. Guide card: Balfour visit. On guide card: 1921. Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.