Native of Bethlehem on his donkey Holy Land (i.e. West Bank) – Historic Print
![Native of Bethlehem on his donkey Holy Land (i.e. West Bank), [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/49/49632a5ea18b-L.webp)
(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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A window into the past: Native of Bethlehem on his donkey Holy Land (i.e. West Bank), preserved in this historic print. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Native of Bethlehem on his donkey Holy Land (i.e. West Bank)
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A man from Bethlehem sits astride a donkey in this photochrom print, a pairing meant to show the everyday life of the town traditionally linked with the Nativity. Made in the 1890s, when Western travelers to Palestine, then under Ottoman rule, eagerly sought images of the places and people they knew from scripture, it reflects the appetite for souvenir views of the Holy Land. The photochrom process, a Swiss color printing method licensed in America by the Detroit Publishing Company, gave photographs rich, painterly tones, and this example appears in the firm's 1905 catalog of Holy Land views. The rider is presented less as an individual than as a type of local life.
| Created / published | [between ca. 1890 and ca. 1900]. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photochrom color. |
| Notes | Detroit Publishing Co. Catalogue J, 1905. Print no. 15118. Views of the Holy Land |
| Source | Library of Congress, Photochrom Prints |
| Original scan | 1,376 × 1,824 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | 2840_Native_of_Bethlehem_on_1890.tif-05912u |
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