Palestine Photographic Project
KARAMA 2017
Palestine Photographic Project
KARAMA San Diego, 2017
This book is dedicated to the estimated 700,000 Palestinian men, women and children who were driven from their homeland in the process of the creation of the state of Israel in 1948, and their millions of descendants who remain refugees to this day.
Photos for this book were selected from the Library of Congress Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection, which contains over 23,000 glass and film negatives, transparencies, and photographic prints created by the American Colony Photo Department and its successor, the Matson Photo Service. The collection transferred to the Library of Congress between 1966 and 1981, through a series of gifts made by Eric Matson and his beneficiary. Since then the images have been digitized for archival preservation by The Library of Congress. Each photograph’s description and the brief notes on Eric Matson are based upon the Library of Congress text. The photographs in the collection were taken between 1898 and 1946, a time period that spans the final years of the Ottoman Empire, the creation of the British Mandate of Palestine by the League of Nations, large-scale Jewish immigration to Palestine under the auspices of the World Zionist Federation, and the rise of a popular movement for Palestinian independence. The KARAMA Palestine Photography Project reproduces photographic images of pre1948 Palestine for exhibition in galleries, museums, universities, libraries and other appropriate venues worldwide. In some reproductions, imperfections in the original file were retained as examples of their deterioration prior to being rescued and digitized by the Library of Congress.
For more information about the photographs and exhibits please visit our website www.palestinephotoproject.org
Western wall of Temple area. 1920-1933
Church of Magdalene & Jerusalem from slopes of Olivet. 1940
Shepherd life illustrating the Twenty Third Psalm. “The Lord Is My Shepherd.” 1900-1920
Bethlehem women drinking coffee. 1898-1914
Bedouin woman. 1898-1946
Bedouin sheikh. August 1932
Bethlehem from the south. 1945
Galilee fishermen. 1898-1946
Harvesting at Beit Sahur and Bethlehem. 1898-1946
Bedouin warrior. 1898-1914
Shepherds watching their flocks with Bethlehem in distance. 1920-1933
After wedding, Bethlehem bride & groom touch leaf & yeast above doorway to their prospective house. 1940-1946
Laying of corner stone for municipal school by District Commissioner Keith Roach. Address by Mayor of Ramallah Salem el-Zaahour with natural cross found in stone in foreground. 1940
Jerusalem from the Jericho road. 1941
Jerusalem from Tower of Notre Dame de France. 1934-1939
Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. 1945
Old City bread seller. 1934-1939
A typical dry goods stall in Nabi Rubin, southern Palestine. 1920-1933
Deep fissures or land openings near the Dead Sea caused by the earthquake. 1927
Main street and minaret in Gaza. 1920-1933
A street in old town of Nablus showing the Great Mosque. 1940
Princess Mary Street with Rex Cinema in background in West Jerusalem. 1940-1946
Operating theater in Hebron hospital. 1944
Scots Mission Hospital in Tiberias. 1934-1939
Mr. Lababidi and Ibrahim Toukan at reception by the Director of Programs, Palestine Broadcasting Services (PBS). 1940
Palestine Broadcasting Service (PBS) radio performance in Jerusalem. 1936-1946
Palestine Broadcasting Services Choral Society debut concert at Y.M.C.A. auditorium. 1938
Muslim Orphanage Band in old Serai. 1940-1946
Boys reading braille in blind school in Hebron. 1940
Quaker Mission school in Ramallah. 1937
Imperial Airways facility in Gaza. 1935
Arab Women’s Union of Ramallah. 1934-1939
Arab Ladies’ Union group at King David Hotel. 1944
Arab women’s delegation demonstrating against British policy outside of the High Commissioner’s residency. 1929
Temple area, Mosque of Omar (Dome of the Rock). 1900-1920
His Eminence the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, Haj Amin Effendi el-Husseini. 1937
Doorway with monk looking in at Mar Saba, Greek Orthodox monastery. 1934-1939
Church of Nativity in Bethlehem. 1940-1946
A Palestine Madonna. 1934-1939
Mohamed Kurd Ali, Arab professor of literature. 1941
Soap Factory. 1940
Printing of Palestine first stamps. 1920
Match factory in Nablus. 1940
Inside Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. 1920-1933
Arab recruits on parade passing Jaffa Gate in Jerusalem. 1941
Display of British military force in Jerusalem. 1929
Arab demonstrators facing baton charge in Jaffa Gate. 1933
Arabs lined up by police to check identity card. 1939
Searching citizens for arms at the Jaffa Gate. 1936
Searching an Arab bus for arms on the Jerusalem-Jaffa road.1938
Palestinian being photographed for identity card with headdress removed. 1934-1939
A fire in the Armenian Quarter. 1936
Palestinian Arabs at Abou Ghosh taking the oath of allegiance to fight Zionist immigration. 1936
Beginning of a Zionist settlement at Qastina. 1940
Arab stamp, “Palestine for the Arabs.” 1938
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