Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingAmerican Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915
- Contributor: American Colony (Jerusalem) - American Colony Photo Department - Larsson, Lewis
- Date: 1915
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Photo, Print, DrawingAmerican Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai
- Contributor: Pasha, Jamal - American Colony Photo Department - Larsson, Lewis
- Date: 1914
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Photo, Print, DrawingAmerican Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photographic portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford, Jerusalem
- Contributor: Krikorian, Garabed
- Date: 1885
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Photo, Print, DrawingAmerican Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photograph, American Colony Nurses and medical staff
- Contributor: American Colony Nurses - American Colony Photo Department
- Date: 1915
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Photo, Print, DrawingAmerican Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photograph of six young women making lace
- Contributor: American Colony (Jerusalem) - American Colony
- Date: 1930
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Photo, Print, DrawingAmerican Colony in Jerusalem Collection: Part I: Photograph of two women making Palestinian point lace seated outdoors on a balcony, Old City Jerusalem in the background
- Contributor: American Colony (Jerusalem) - American Colony
- Date: 1930
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ArticleA Community in Jerusalem The story of the American Colony in Jerusalem begins with Anna and Horatio Spafford of Lake View, Illinois, and the involvement of their family in the 1873 shipwreck of the luxury steamer, the Ville du Havre. The majority of passengers traveling aboard the Ville du Havre lost their lives in that catastrophe in the mid-Atlantic. Among the drowned were the Spaffords' four young daughters.
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ArticleAmerican Colony in Jerusalem Timeline, 1828-1980 Top of page Skip to main content Library of Congress Search Everything Audio Recordings Books/Printed Material Films, Videos Legislation Manuscripts/Mixed Material Maps Notated Music Newspapers Periodicals Personal Narratives Photos, Prints, Drawings Software, E-Resources Web Archives
- Date: 1828