Showing posts with label 1865. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1865. Show all posts

Sunday, February 28, 2016

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta) - In Honor of our 2 Millionth Viewer Today, This Damascus Jewish Woman Put on her Finest, 1865

Jeune fille juive de Damas en grande toilette.  A Jewish girl of
Damascus in her best outfit. (Paris, Musée d'Orsay)

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta)



Posted: 27 Feb 2016

Sometime today, our 2 millionth visitor will open this site.  
Flash (2:32 PM EST)  All time history  2,000,014

Researching a recently digitized collection in France, we decided to celebrate and share one of the pictures we found this week. The photo was taken by French photographer Charles Lallemand in 1865 and can be found in the archives of the D'Orsay Museum in Paris.  The young woman welcomed us in her fanciest outfit, wearing on her feet elaborate platform shoes used in the hammam (Turkish baths). Some of the shoes at the time were inlaid with mother-of-pearl and silver.

This site has published features on early pictures of lost Jewish communities in Tunisia, Egypt, Syria, and Iraq.  We recently published 19th century pictures of other Jewish girls from the Middle East, including Syrian/Damascus Jewish girls, found by the British Library in an endangered Beirut collection of Bonfils photographs.



"Jewish girl from Syria"
(Bonfils, British Library)
"Jewish girl from Damascus"
(Bonfils, British Library)
























Jewish home in Damascus (1901, Library of Congress)

Friday, May 23, 2014

Memorial Day - started by former slaves on May 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC


May 27, 2013 
 

KNOW YOUR HISTORY: Memorial Day was started by former slaves on May, 1, 1865 in Charleston, SC to honor 257 dead Union Soldiers who had been buried in a mass grave in a Confederate prison camp. They dug up the bodies and worked for 2 weeks to give them a proper burial as gratitude for fighting for their freedom. They then held a parade of 10,000 people led by 2,800 Black children where they marched, sang and celebrated.

Thanks to Abstrakt Goldsmith for this nugget of history that most of us never learned in school.