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Saturday, October 19, 2013

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

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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.

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