Porte Jaffa, Jerusalem – Historic 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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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Porte Jaffa, Jerusalem. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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Porte Jaffa, Jerusalem
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Auguste Salzmann's album of Jerusalem, published in Paris in 1856, includes this view of the Jaffa Gate, the western entrance to the walled Old City and the gate that faces the road to the port of Jaffa. Salzmann was a French photographer who made the large paper and albumen prints for the book, which set out to document the city's monuments from the Jewish period onward. As one of the early photographic records of Jerusalem, the plate shows the gate and its surroundings as they stood in the 1850s, before the rapid growth of the city outside the walls later in the century.
| Created / published | Paris : Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Book illustrations 1850-1860.Albumen prints 1850-1860. |
| Notes | Published in: Jérusalem; étude et reproduction photographique des monuments de la Ville Sainte, depuis l'époque judaïque jusqu'à nos jours / Auguste Salzmann. Paris: Gidé et J. Baudry, 1856, v. 2, no. 48. |
| Subjects | Jaffa Gate (Jerusalem)--1850-1860. Gates--Jerusalem--1850-1860. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,662 × 3,752 px · prints to 16 × 13 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-222265 |
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