Christmas in Jerusalem -- Catholic Bishop arrives – 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 Christmas in Jerusalem -- Catholic Bishop arrives brings a moment of history to your wall. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The record for this glass negative ties it to a Christmas arrival in Jerusalem, when a Catholic bishop was welcomed to the city's observances. Christmas drew pilgrims and clergy from many churches to the Holy Land, and Catholic prelates, whose church maintained a Latin Patriarchate in Jerusalem, were often part of those processions. The image comes from the George Grantham Bain Collection, the New York news photography service whose glass negatives document much of the world's events in the early twentieth century. The record gives no date, so the exact year is unknown, but the caption's title and the negative format point to the Bain Service's working period.
| 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 × 3,834 px · prints to 11 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27152 |
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