Holy Land Digital Image Collections

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__|a  (CAJSImage)[system control number to record digital location]

__|a  564UND/BB18

2_|a  Underwood & Underwood |4  Photographer

00|a  Jerusalem, the City of the Great King, from Mount of Olives, Palestine |h  [Graphic]

1_|a  Palestine Through the Stereoscope

__|c  1901.

__|a  1 stereoscopic card : |b  albumen ; |c  15.4 x 8.1 cm ( 6 x 3.25 in).

__|a  Stereoscopic cards were originally housed in a box which looks like two books; the box is labeled "Palestine Through the Stereoscope" and each of the "books" is marked either "Volume I" or "Volume II" and "Underwood & Underwood"; the card is numbered at the top and bottom with its location (18) in the box and with the photographic number (3097) ; the publisher's name and locations (New York, London, Toronto-Canada, and Ottawa-Kansas) are listed on the left side of the card; "Works and Studios" for "Sun Sculpture" is listed on the right end of the card with their locations (Arlington and Westwood, New Jersey); the title and copyright date (1901) are printed at the bottom of the card; see 540UND/BA30 (Voyager # 326107)

__|a  View of Jerusalem from the Mount of Olives with the Russian Orthodox Church in the foreground

__|a  1

__|a  Printed : "3097 We are standing on the Mount of Olives, just behind a modern Russian church, looking directly west across the valley of the Brook Kedron to Mount Moriah and the walled city of Jerusalem. Bethlehem is only six miles away at our left (S.W.); the Sea of Galilee is 70 miles distant at our right; 16 miles behind us the Jordan pours its waters into the Dead Sea; beyond Jerusalem, in the direction in which we are looking now, stand the mountains, and then below their farther slopes the plains of Sharon, and then the shores of the Mediterranean less than 40 miles from here in a straight line. [new paragraph] 'Across the valley and under the wall do you see the army of gravestones where innumerable Mohammedans lie buried? Do you notice in the wall, almost in the middle of our range of vision, an elevation having a double arch under it? That is the Golden Gate, which the Turks have walled up because of a tradition that through this gate a conqueror, not of their faith, shall some day enter and possess the city. That large, open square beyond the wall, directly before us, is the most interesting spot in all this city, for on it stands the Dome of the Rock, that large octagonal building. How much of sacred history clusters around that rocky hill! On that plateau, perhaps on the very rock under that dome, Abraham laid his son Isaac upon the altar. There, a thousand years later, was Araunah's threshing-floor which David bought for an altar place, consecrated for all time by the temple that rose in front of it. Before that altar Solomon stood and Hezekiah prayed, and Isaiah beheld his glorious vision.' [new paragraph] (See 'Traveling in the Holy Land Through the Stereoscopic,' by Jesse Lyman Hurlbut, D.D., with special 'keyed' maps, published by Underwood & Underwood.) [new paragraph] From Notes of Travel No. 11, copyright 1904 by Underwood & Underwood." The title is printed in six languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Dutch, and Greek.

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20|a  Dome of the Rock (Jerusalem)

_4|a  Church of the Mary Magdalene

_0|a  Jerusalem

_0|a  Israel

__|4  Provenance |g  Sotheby's |d  1981/03/27

2_|a  Underwood & Underwood |4  Publisher

2_|a  Holy Land Image Collection

2_|a  Lenkin Photo Image Collection

0_|t  CAJS Image Collection |g  BB |l  UND |m  564 |n  BB18

0_|t  The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries