Jerusalem - Jaffa Gate – 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.)
Description
This rare historic photograph captures Jerusalem - Jaffa Gate in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Jerusalem - Jaffa Gate
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Jaffa Gate is one of the main entrances through the Old City walls of Jerusalem, and it takes its name from the road that led west toward the port of Jaffa. The walls were rebuilt under the Ottoman sultan Suleiman the Magnificent in the 1530s, and the gate has remained a principal passage for travelers and traders since then. This glass negative belongs to the George Grantham Bain Collection, a body of news photographs from the early twentieth century. Its title, taken from the caption cards and not independently verified, points to the stretch of Jaffa Road just outside the gate.
| 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. Image depicts Jaffa Road near Jaffa Gate (Source: M. Levin, 2006). Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Temp. note: Batch eight loaded. |
| Source | Library of Congress, George Grantham Bain Collection |
| Original scan | 5,084 × 3,635 px · prints to 17 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-BNN-37768 |
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