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• Title: Photographs of Lebanon, Turkey, and Syria
• Creator(s): Whiting, John D. (John David), 1882-1951, photographer
• Date Created/Published: [between 1930 and 1940]
• Medium: 1 album (74 gelatin silver prints) ; 16 x 26 cm. (album)
• Summary: Photographs show John D. Whiting's trips in Syria, Lebanon, and Turkey in the 1930s. Whiting, a member of the American Colony in Jerusalem worked as a tour guide, businessman, writer and photographer. Album page image number 1-21 (p. 1-23) Photographs include: Crusader church (Beirut), people at picnic table, men burning thorns, cemetery of the Meidan (Damascus), village of Breije between Damascus and Homs, mosque (Homs, Syria), view of Hama from castle hill, double waterwheel (Hama, Syria), man with horse, Krak de Chevaliers, Syria (courtyard inner ward, entrance to refectory, undercroft, corner tower, outer wall, general and distant view, Grace Whiting and Geo Asfar sitting in window), sacred fish shrine (Tripoli, Lebanon), tower ruins, and Isle de Rouad, Tartosa (Tartous) cathedral and Margab castle in Syria. Album page image number 22-37 (p. 21-39) Photographs include: castle tunnels, man and donkey grinding?, boats in harbor, Antioch and Mt. Silpius from the west, woodworker, laurel tree and waterfalls at Daphne and streets at Antioch, Turkey; cedars in Lebanon, Miss Clement sketching in cedar grove, mountains, valley, cliffs, coast road at Ras Esh Shekka (Lebanon), ruins of Jebeil (Biblos, Lebanon), sarcophagus of King Ahiram of Biblos, and obsidian coffer bound in gold.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-18437 (digital files of original photos) LC-DIG-ppmsca-18436 (digital files of album pages)
• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
  
• Access Advisory: For reference access, please use the digital images in the online catalog to preserve the fragile original items.
• Call Number: LOT 13856 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
• Notes:
  • Most of the photographs were taken by John D. Whiting. G. Eric Matson and others may have also taken some of the photographs. Matson, Whiting, Hanna Safieh, Joseph H. Giries, and others contributed to the work of the the Matson Photo Service, the successor to the American Colony Photo Department (1898-1940). For more information about the American Colony Photo Department and the Matson Photo Service see: http://www.loc.gov/pictures/collection/matpc/about.html. For more information about the John D. Whiting Collection see: http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/coll/629_whiting.html
  • LOT title devised by Library staff.
  • Album unpaginated, album page numbers supplied by Library staff.
  • Some photographs printed from negatives taken earlier (ca. 1900 to 1920) by the American Colony Photo Department.
  • Photographs in album uncaptioned. Captions based on similar images in the G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection and in LOTs 13837, 13839, and13853.
  • Album similar in format to "Diary in Photos" albums (LOT 13836, LOTs 13839-13842).
  • 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-2006:051:40)
• Subjects:
  • American Colony (Jerusalem)--People--1930-1940.
  • Mosques--Beirut--Lebanon--1930-1940.
  • Mosques--Syria--1930-1940.
  • Cedar trees--Lebanon--1930-1940.
  • Fish--Lebanon--Tripoli--1930-1940.
  • Cathedrals--Syria--1930-1940.
  • Castles & palaces--Syria--1930-1940.
  • Waterwheels--Syria--Ḥamāh--1930-1940.
  • Waterfalls--Turkey--Antioch--1930-1940.
  • Sarcophagi--Lebanon--Jubayl--1930-1940.
  • Archaeological sites--Middle East--1930-1940.
• Format:
  • Gelatin silver prints--1930-1940.
  • Photograph albums--1930-1940.
• Collections:
  • Groups of Images (LOTs)
• Part of: Visual materials from the papers of John D. Whiting
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• Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
• Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-18437 (digital files of original photos) LC-DIG-ppmsca-18436 (digital files of album pages)
• Call Number: LOT 13856 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 album (74 gelatin silver prints) ; 16 x 26 cm. (album)

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• Call Number: LOT 13856 (H) (USE DIGITAL IMAGES) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 album (74 gelatin silver prints) ; 16 x 26 cm. (album)
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