Dead Sea album prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd.
- Title: Dead Sea album prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd.
- Creator(s): Matson Photo Service, photographer
- Date Created/Published: [1937]
- Medium:
1 album (80 photographic prints) : gelatin silver ; 26 x 35 cm. (album)
1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10.5 x 7 cm. - Summary: Photographs show Palestine Potash Ltd. (Palestine Potash Company) facilities and activities including camp at Jebel Usdum, pumping station, powerhouse, factory, trains, and barges. Also depicted are a sunrise over the Dead Sea, Kallia Dead Sea resort, man reading while afloat on the Dead Sea, sunrise at 'Ein Jiddy (ʻEn Gedi) with a Shittim tree, wooden pipe taking Dead Sea water to evaporating pans showing salt stalactites leaking from pipe, panorama in three sections showing south end of Jebel Usdum, panorama in two sections looking southeast. and south towards Araba, carnolite pans giving effect of melting snow, Arab laborers heaping up the carnolite, native workers at 'Ein Arous, a bush fire at 'Ein Arous, Bedouin tent at Ghor Es Safieh, sunrise scene, "Pillar of Salt" suggestive of a headless female figure, cliffs of salt stratifications, salt stalactites in cave, Jebel Usdum; salt formations resembling rough coral, palm trees on the eastern shore killed by briny waters, and El-Menshaleh. Includes aerial photographs of the Jericho road via Neby Mousa, River Jordan, Palestine Potash plant, Temple area in Jerusalem, mouth of the Auji river, and Tel Aviv.
- Reproduction Number: ---
- Rights Advisory:
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- Call Number: LOT 13857 (H) [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- LOT title from from caption list.
- Some of the photographs were created by the photographers of the American Colony Photo Department, located in Jerusalem. Founded in the late 1890s by Elijah Meyers, the photo agency was headed during its heyday (ca. 1903-1933) by Lewis Larsson, whose staff photographers included Erik Lind, Lars Lind, Furman Baldwin, and G. Eric Matson. It transitioned into the Matson Photo Service around 1940, with photography by Matson, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others. John D. Whiting contributed periodically to the work of both agencies. For more information see: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/ and http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/629_whiting.html.
- Captions list found with album: "List of photos in the Dead Sea album, prepared for the Palestine Potash Ltd, Jerusalem, August 6th, 1937."
- Label inside cover: "The Matson Photo Service."
- Label on back of first page: "Photos copyrighted by the Matson Photo Service, P.O. Box 34, Jerusalem, Palestine."
- Label on album cover: "The Dead Sea."
- Some photographs were made by the Matson Photo Service from images taken earlier by the American Colony Photo Department.
- Stamped on verso of three panoramic photographs: Copyrighted by the American Colony Photo Department, P.O. Box 34, Jerusalem, Palestine.
- One unattached photograph was found with the album and is stored with it. Photograph is a smaller print of no. 1225 in the album and depicts sunrise at 'Ein Jiddy with a shittim tree. Stamped on verso: Copyright. The Matson Photo Service, Jerusalem, Palestine.
- Album unpaginated, album page numbers supplied by Library staff.
- John D. Whiting's diaries, correspondence, and other materials are located in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division (Papers of John D. Whiting).
- Forms part of: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting.
- Transfer; Manuscript Division; 2006; (DLC/PP-2006:051:46)
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- Part of: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting
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- Reproduction Number: ---
- Call Number: LOT 13857 (H) [P&P]
- Medium:
1 album (80 photographic prints) : gelatin silver ; 26 x 35 cm. (album)
1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10.5 x 7 cm.
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- Call Number: LOT 13857 (H) [P&P]
- Medium:
1 album (80 photographic prints) : gelatin silver ; 26 x 35 cm. (album)
1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 10.5 x 7 cm.
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