Inside Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem – Vintage Wall Art
(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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This historic photograph of Inside Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Inside Jaffa Gate, Jerusalem
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Jaffa Gate is one of the main entrances in the walls of the Old City of Jerusalem, set into the western wall on the side facing the road to the port city of Jaffa, and this glass negative shows the passage through it. The Bain News Service, a Manhattan picture agency, distributed images like this one in the early twentieth century, and its founder George Grantham Bain assembled a large archive that later passed to the Library of Congress. Pictures of the Old City gates were popular with American and European audiences of the period, who often knew the walled city mainly through travel accounts and religious teaching. The date is not recorded, so the exact year of the exposure remains uncertain.
| Created / published | n/a |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. |
| Genre | Glass negatives. |
| Notes | Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards. Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch six loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 3,171 × 3,828 px · prints to 11 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27161 |
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