Hand-colored lantern slide of a city with domes beneath an olive tree – Antique Print
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This historic image of Hand-colored lantern slide of a city with domes beneath an olive tree brings a moment of history to your wall. It is part of the Snapshots of the Past archive, gathered over 25 years of research.
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Hand-colored lantern slide of a city with domes beneath an olive tree
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Beneath the sheltering branches of an olive tree, a skyline of domes rises behind the foreground, a composition that suggests Jerusalem, the city the board's Israel and Judaism category points toward. Lantern slides like this one were glass positives projected before audiences in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when travel lectures brought the Holy Land to churchgoers and schoolchildren who would never make the journey. Hand-coloring with transparent dyes added warm tones to stone, foliage and sky, turning a black-and-white photograph into a more vivid view. Such slides were often made in series, so the olive tree may have been chosen as a framing device to lead the viewer's eye toward the domes.
| Original scan | 4,391 × 3,620 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
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| Reference | 11973u |
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