Snow in Jerusalem -- Pictures We Presented in Winters Past - Israel's History - a Picture a Day

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Snow in Jerusalem -- Pictures We Presented in Winters Past Posted: 12 Dec 2013 12:34 AM PST Jerusalem under blanket of snow. View from the Christian Quarter showing the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Mosque of Omar on the Temple Mount and Mt. of Olives. (circa 1900) Strong rain, winds and snow storms are hitting the Middle East this week.  And snow is falling today in Jerusalem, the Golan and parts of the Galilee.  British soldiers at the Western Wall (1921) We present here old pictures of snow in Jerusalem from the Library of Congress collection.    Children of the "American Colony" (1921). These pictures were hand-colored and found in a Colony family album. Children of the "American Colony" playing in the snow (1921)  "Snow-balling" on Jaffa Road in Jerusalem (1942)  Australian soldiers and Arabs "snow-balling" (1942)

On this Day, December 11, Gen. Edmund Allenby Entered Jerusalem after the British Rout of the Turkish-German Army in 1917. Re-posting an earlier feature Posted: 11 Dec 2013  Allenby entering Jerusalem December 11, 1917 Photographers accompanied the Imperial British Army forces throughout the battles of World War I in Palestine, starting at the Suez Canal in 1915 and continuing through the capture of Damascus in 1918.    Turkish Camel Corps in Be'er Sheva (1917, Library of Congress archives) The grand scale of the fighting in Palestine is not fully recognized today even by historians, with attention often focused on the European front.  One statistic may put the fighting into perspective: The British army suffered more than half a million casualties; the Turks even more. The Israel Daily Picture site has presented hundreds of pictures of the fighting between the British Imperial Forces and the Turkish and German forces on the battlefields of Sinai, Gaza, Be'er Sheva, and Jerusalem. Most of the photographs, such as those on this page, were found in the U.S. Library of Congress' American Colony collection. Click on a picture to enlarge.  Click on the caption to view  the original picture.  Austrian army troops approaches Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate (1916) Turkish troops preparing to attack the Suez Canal 1915 We present below a film from the British Imperial War Museum of British Commander Edmund Allenby's entrance into Jerusalem on December 11, 1917.    General Allenby walking through the Jaffa Gate into the Old City of Jerusalem.  Click HERE to view the video According to the Imperial War Museum synopsis accompanying the film: The General entered Jerusalem on 11 December, accompanied by his staff (T. E. Lawrence ["Lawrence of Arabia"] among them), French and Italian officers, and various other international representatives. At the Jaffa gate he was greeted by a guard of Commonwealth and Allied troops; dismounting, he and his comrades entered the city on foot, as instructed. Allenby had been less than fifteen minutes in the city. After 400 years of Ottoman rule, Jerusalem had passed into British hands..

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The Church of Ireland Library's 115-Year-Old Photographic Treasure - photos of Jerusalem

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Part 2: The Church of Ireland Library's 115-Year-Old Photographic Treasure Posted: 11 Dec 2013  Carriage parking lot outside of Jerusalem's Old City's Jaffa Gate and beneath David's Citadel. The photo pre-dates the opening made adjacent to Jaffa Gate to enable entrance of the German Emperor's carriage in 1898.  View inside Jaffa Gate HERE  Credit: RCB Library, 1897).  We present here Part 2 from the Church of Ireland Library's photographic collection of pictures taken by David Brown in 1897.  View Part 1 HERE The Church of Ireland's Representative Church Body Library's full collection can be viewed HERE. The photos here are presented with the permission of the RCB Library. Click on pictures to enlarge; click on the captions to view the original photo. Subscribe to receive www.israeldailypicture.com in your email by entering your address in the right sidebar. On the road to the Jerusalem train station with Jaffa Gate and David's Citadel in the background. Other 19th Century photographers also used this same perspective for a landscape picture of Jerusalem.  (Credit: RCB Library, 1897)  Rachel's tomb between Jerusalem and Bethlehem (Credit: RCB Library, 1897)  View a previous feature on Rachel's tomb HERE Money changer in Jerusalem (apparently Jewish). A picture of money changers was also a standard photo taken by photographers visiting the Holy Land, perhaps because of the New Testament story of Jesus and the money changers.  View an earlier posting on money changers and their unique tables HERE.  (Credit: RCB Library, 1897) "Plowing with an ox and ass" -- the original caption. This is another standard picture by 19th century photographers,apparently because of the Biblical prohibition "Thou shall not plow with an ox and an ass together" (Deuteronomy XX). View a previous posting on photographing Biblical prohibitions HERE. (Credit: RCB Library, 1897) The Golden Gate of the Old City. The sealed gates, the closest to the location of the Jewish Temples, face the Mt. of Olives.  View a previous posting on the Golden Gate, also known as Sha'ar Harachamim, HERE. (Credit: RCB Library, 1897) Responsible Archivists Preserve Their Photographic Treasures

19th Century Photos of Jerusalem Now Digitized by New York Public Library

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19th Century Photos of Jerusalem Now Digitized  by New York Public Library Posted: 03 Dec 2013  The digitizing of vintage photographs continues in archives and libraries around the world. Last year the New York Public Library digitized its photographic collections and posted them online. The photos in the Library's Dorot Jewish Division include hundreds of 19th Century pictures of Jerusalem and Palestine. Below we post several of the pictures taken in the first years of photography by pioneers such as Félix Bonfils and Auguste Salzmann. The images were captured by their early cameras while the region was under Turkish role, and years before World War I, the emergence of the Arab nationalist movement, Theodore Herzl's Zionist movement, and the creation of the State of Israel.  Rare picture of Jews at the Western Wall, with signature of Félix Bonfils (NYPL Digital Gallery,1894). Most early photos of this area were taken at ground level  and did not show the tiny area where Jews were permitted to pray.  Inside the Jaffa Gate of the Old City of Jerusalem. Other collections possess this photograph, but few are of similar  quality and clarity. (NYPL Digital Gallery, circa 1870). Another view of the inside of Jaffa Gate by Auguste Salzmann  (NYPL Digital Gallery, 1856) Damascus Gate by Auguste Salzmann (NYPL Digital Gallery, 1856)  Zion Gate, also known as David's Gate, by Salzmann  (NYPL Digital Gallery, 1856) Lions Gate, also known as St. Stephens Gate, by Salzmann  (NYPL Digital Gallery, 1856) Jews praying at the Western Wall by Robertson, Beato & Co. (NYPL Digital Gallery, 1857)  Click on photographs to enlarge.  Click on the captions to view the original pictures. Responsible Archivists Preserve Their Photographic Treasures

Century-Old Photos Revealed by Oregon State University, Part 1. The Collection Includes an Interesting Historical Commentary

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Century-Old Photos Revealed by Oregon State University, Part 1. The Collection Includes an Interesting Historical Commentary Posted: 27 Nov 2013 11:07 PM PST Rachel's Tomb (circa 1910) Note the camels and carriages. (Oregon State University Archives) Oregon State University has an unusual collection of 100+ year old photographs of Palestine --  not necessarily unusual because of the photographs, which are exceptional, but also because of the historic narration provided to most of the pictures.  Tiberias (circa 1910, Oregon State University Archives) The "historic lecture booklet" referenced in many of the captions, explains Trevor Sandgathe, the Public Services Coordinator of OSU's Special Collections & Archives Research Center, "is a 60-page document containing captions for each of the images in this particular set of lantern slides.  The booklet was for internal use and therefore unpublished." We provide here a first set of OSU's pictures and the original captions (in blue). "Tiberias ... is on the western shore of the lake of Galilee about seven miles from its southern end. The lake lies 627 feet below the level of the Mediterranean; the city is on a plain a few feet above the lake. After the destruction of Jerusalem, Tiberias became the seat of many Jewish schools. Here the Mishna was complied [sic] and published about A.D. 220, and the Palestinian Talmud about 420. Here the vowel points were added to the Hebrew Bible about 600 A.D. Of its present population of 4,000 two-thirds are Jews."  The Jews' Wailing Place- Outer Wall of Temple  (circa 1910,  Oregon State University Archives) "Leaving the temple area by the Cotton Gate, a turn to the left will bring one to the wailing place of the Jews which is a portion of the western wall of the temple area.  The figures leaning against the weather-beaten wall, shedding tears, present a touching scene. Some professionals come to mourn for others, whose business detains them, but one old woman was actually bathing the walls and flagstones below with hot tears. On a Friday afternoon or a Saturday morning, great throngs of Jews may be seen here all unconscious of the presence and clicking of cameras.  This is as close to the temple area as the Jews ever go, for none of them wish to commit the enormous sin of treading upon the Holy of Hollies. As nearly as the Middle Ages, probably, the Jews came hither to wail. They are free to do so now, but in ages past they had to pay large sums for this privilege." Jaffa Gate (prior to 1908 when a clock tower was built at the gate, post-1898 when the wall was breached to build this road  (circa 1910,  Oregon State University Archives)  More pictures of Jaffa Gate here "The Jaffa gate is the only gate on the western side of Jerusalem. It is so called because through it passes the road and the traffic to and from Jaffa.  It is one of eight gates in the city wall, of which one, the golden Gate, had long been walled up. the Jaffa gate is called by the Moslem, Bab el-Khalil, that is Gate of the Friend (of God) - Abraham, because from this gate is the road to Hebron where Abraham lived. The scene is liveliest on Sunday, and on Friday --- the holy day of the Mohammedans. Then the Jaffa road appears as the principal promenade of the natives."    Responsible Archivists Preserve Their Photographic Treasures     Abraham's Well, Beer Sheba  (circa 1910, Oregon State University Archives) The wells of Beer Sheba were a strategic location during the battles of World War I. Read more here

Walls & Gates of Jerusalem -- More Pictures from the Emory University Collection

Israel's History - a Picture a Day (Beta) It's the final countdown... 1,000,000 visitors to Israel Daily Picture Tell us why you enjoy viewing Israel Daily Picture in the comment section below. Recommend Israel Daily Picture to your friends and family. The Walls & Gates of Jerusalem -- More Pictures from the Emory University Collection, Part 3 Damascus Gate 1. (Emory Collection, circa 1905) Note shops on the right. Was this the first "strip mall?" We present part 3 of the digitalized photos of the Underwood & Underwood stereoscope collection, Palestine through the Stereoscope, from Emory University's Pitts Theology Library, Candler School of Theology. In this feature we present the pictures of Jerusalem's walls and gates. By comparing the photos to the photo essays presented here over the last two years we are able to date the pictures. Click on pictures to enlarge. Click on captions to view the original pictures. Damascus Gate 1: The shops on the right of the square belonged to a Jewish banker name Chaim Aharon Valero (circa 1905). The domes of the Hurva and Tiferet Yisrael synagogues are on the horizon on the left of the picture. Both were destroyed by the Jordanian Legion  in 1948. Read more about Valero here.  Damascus Gate 2. photographed by Mendel Diness. Note how barren the area outside of the wall was. (Fine Arts Library, Harvard University, circa 1856) Damascus Gate 2: Mendel Diness, a Jewish watchmaker,  became Jerusalem's first Jewish photographer and is credited with photographing the Damascus Gate in the 1850s. Later he left Palestine and became a Christian preacher in the United States named Mendenhall John Dennis. Read more about Diness/Dennis and his photo collection  found in a Minnesota garage sale.  Damascus Gate 3 Construction of the row of Valero's shops outside the gate. (Library of Congress, circa 1900) Damascus Gate 3: The picture shows the construction of Valero's shops. In the 1930s, the British authorities ruled that the area should be zoned for use as "open spaces" and they demolished the shops in 1937. The Valeros were not compensated. View pictures of the demolition here. MOREL http://www.israeldailypicture.com/