pb_lc_bcr_c18900000-0002aa.tiff (29.74 MB)

Tailleurs de pierres à Jérusalem, c.1890-1900

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posted on 2019-05-31, 08:03 authored by Freja Howat-Maxted, Leila Sansour, Jacob NorrisJacob Norris

This is a digital reproduction of an image held in the Library of Congress.

The image depicts a group of stone-cutters carrying limestone in Jerusalem. The Jerusalem hills are well known for their variety of limestone deposits, a material that forms the basis of most of the region's buildings. Bethlehem has long been known as a centre of stone masonry. The town provided large numbers of the stone masons who built Jerusalem's newly expanding suburbs in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

This image exists as part of the Bethlehem Crafts collection in the Library of Congress project of the Planet Bethlehem Archive.

History

Project

https://figshare.com/projects/Library_of_Congress/26557

Collection

https://doi.org/10.25377/sussex.c.4259663

Contributors

Detroit Publishing Co., catalogue J foreign section. Detroit, Mich.

Date

c.1890-1900

Type

Digital scan of image: 1 photomechanical print : photochrom, color.

Source

Library of Congress, Washington DC, USA, Prints & Photographs Division, Photochrom Collection, reproduction number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-02758 (digital file from original)

Language

French

Spatial

31.7054169,35.1848899

Spatial Relation

Bethlehem: place associated, place of production

Identifier

pb_lc_bcr_c18900000-0002aa.tiff

Rights

Library of Congress. No known restrictions on publication.

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Keywords

Bethlehem Crafts collection Bethlehem stonecutting Middle Eastern and African History Middle Eastern and North African history

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CC BY 4.0

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