Samson's gate, Gaza / Frith. – Vintage Print
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(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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A window into the past: Samson's gate, Gaza / Frith., preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Samson's gate, Gaza / Frith.
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Known as Samson's gate, this view of a gateway in Gaza takes its name from Judges 16, where Samson carries away the city's gates on his shoulders. Francis Frith made the photograph during his travels in Egypt and Palestine in the late 1850s. It appeared as plate 11 in *Sinai and Palestine*, published in London by William Mackenzie around 1862, and this albumen print was made from a glass negative. The stonework and the worn approach show the age of a place that had been a fortified town for centuries.
| Created / published | [1862?] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Signed and numbered (191) on glass plate. Published in: Sinai and Palestine / Francis Frith. London : William Mackenzie, [1862?, pl. 11]. |
| Subjects | Samson--(Biblical judge) Gates--Gaza Strip--Gaza--1850-1860. Gaza--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,667 × 3,747 px · prints to 16 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222015 |
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