Holy Land Digital Image Collections

Vue du Wady El-Racha à l'entrée du Wady el-Ledja [Graphic]

1881.

Raoult, J. X

1 photograph : albumen ; 25.6 x 20 cm ( 10 x 8 in).

Title printed in Cyrillic on a label and handwritten in pencil in French on the matte; number 16; information about the photographer printed below the photograph: "Phie par J.X. Raoult, Chevalier de plusieurs ordres, Membre collaborateur de l'Université Imperiale d'Odessa, Mention honorable de S.M. l'Empereur de toutes les Russies, Medaille à l'Exposition Universelle de Paris 1878, Membre de la Société de Photographie de Paris (Odessa)."

Nine people walk single file, and one is astride a camel, crossing a wadi, surrounded by mountains; some of the people hold long staffs/sticks/rifles and the leader of the group appears to have a pipe in his mouth

CAJS Image Collection XQ RAO 1178 XQ9

The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries