Cutting room of an olive oil soap factory Palestine – Historic Photo Reproduction
(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 Cutting room of an olive oil soap factory Palestine 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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Cutting room of an olive oil soap factory Palestine
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Olive oil soap was one of Palestine's best-known manufactured goods, and this stereograph records the cutting room where finished slabs were divided into bars for sale. Soap was made in towns such as Nablus for generations, using local olive oil, and workers cut the cured soap by hand. The card was published by the Universal Photo Art Company in 1903, when stereoviews of the Holy Land sold well to American viewers who looked at them through hand-held stereoscopes. Its later owner, collector Marian S. Carson, kept it as a record of a trade that is now seldom seen.
| Created / published | 1903 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph gelatin silver. |
| Notes | H37968 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by C.H. Graves. On mount: The Universal Photo Art Co. Title on recto of item. No. 83. · Carson Marian S. collector. |
| Subjects | Soaps--1900-1910. Factories--Palestine--1900-1910. Olive oil industry--Palestine--1900-1910. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Stereograph Cards |
| Original scan | 5,843 × 2,987 px · prints to 19 × 10 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-STV-271241 |
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