Bedouin sheiks of the desert - Invited to the locust celebration – Vintage Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Bedouin sheiks of the desert - Invited to the locust celebration comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Bedouin sheiks of the desert - Invited to the locust celebration
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Beersheba, the market town at the edge of the Negev, is the setting for this June 1930 photograph of Bedouin sheikhs invited to a locust celebration. Under British Mandate rule at the time, the town drew desert tribes who came to trade and to deal with officials, and locust swarms were a recurring threat to crops and pasture across the region. A gathering of tribal leaders built around such an occasion makes the picture worth a closer look as a record of how the authorities and the desert communities met.
| Created / published | 1930 June. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print. |
| Subjects | Bedouins--Israel--Beersheba--1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,367 × 1,536 px · prints to 5 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-157805 |
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