Related Resources
Bibliography
- G. Eric and Edith Matson Negatives
www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/bibliography.html
Library of Congress Resources
Electronic
- John D. Whiting Papers
hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms008123 - G. Eric and Edith Matson Papers
hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010210 - Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting
www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2008676355/ - Visual Materials from the American Colony in Jerusalem Collection
lccn.loc.gov/2010646709 - G. Eric and Edith Matson Negatives
www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/ - Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress
www.loc.gov/rr/geogmap/ - Motion Picture, Broadcasting, and Recorded Sound Division
www.loc.gov/rr/mopic/ - The American Colony in Jerusalem Virtual Exhibition
www.loc.gov/exhibits/americancolony/
Other Resources
Books
- Curtis, Verna Posever. Photographic Memory: The Album in the Age of Photography. New York and Washington, D.C.: Aperture and Library of Congress, 2011.
- Dudman, Helga and Ruth Kark. The American Colony: Scenes from a Jerusalem Saga. Jerusalem: Carta, 1998.
- Edström, Vivi, Inger Larsson, and Margareta Jonth. Bron mellan Näs och Jerusalem. Näs: Ingmarsspelen/Lagerlöfstudier, 1996.
- Geniesse, Jane Fletcher. American Priestess: The Extraordinary Story of Anna Spafford and the American Colony in Jerusalem. New York; Doubleday/Nan A. Talese, 2008.
- Gröndahl, Mia, with Gösta Flemming. The Dream of Jerusalem: Lewis Larsson and the American Colony Photographers. Stockholm: Journal, 2005.
- Lagerlöf, Selma. Jerusalem and The Holy City (Jerusalem II), (1902-3) various editions and translations (Doubleday edition 1915).
- Larsson, Edith. Dalafolk in the Holy Land. Stockholm: Naturoch Culture, 1957.
- Tviet, Odd Karsten. Anna's House: The American Colony in Jerusalem. Trans. by Peter Scott-Hansen. Nicosia, Cyprus: Rimal Publications, 2011.
- Vester, Bertha Spafford. Our Jerusalem: An American Family in the Holy City, 1881–1949. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1950.
- Vester, Valentine. The American Colony Family Album. Jerusalem: American Colony of Jerusalem, 2008.
Periodicals
- Kark, Ruth. "Post Civil War American Communes: A Millenarian Utopian Commune Linking Chicago and Näs, Sweden, to Jerusalem." Communal Societies 15 (1995): 75-113.
- Kark, Ruth and Yaakov Ariel. "Messianism, Holiness, Charisma, and Community: The American-Swedish Colony in Jerusalem, 1881-1933." Church History 65, no. 4 (1996): 641-57.