Jerusalem from Mount of Olives – Antique 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 Jerusalem from Mount of Olives brings a moment of history to your wall. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Jerusalem from Mount of Olives
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Looking across the valley from the Mount of Olives, this glass negative frames the walled Old City of Jerusalem, a view that has drawn pilgrims, travelers and photographers for centuries. The Bain News Service, a New York photo agency that supplied news pictures in the early twentieth century, made and captioned the negative, though the record leaves its exact date unknown. The Mount of Olives, east of the city, is a traditional site of Jesus's ascension and holds some of Jerusalem's oldest Jewish cemeteries, which makes the vantage point as much a religious landmark as a scenic one. Photographs like this one were widely circulated as souvenirs and illustrations of the Holy Land.
| 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 | 1,555 × 1,898 px · prints to 5 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-27172 |
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