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Ancient olive trees, Garden of Gethsemane--looking W. across the Kedron to wall of Jerusalem
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Ancient olive trees, Garden of Gethsemane--looking W. across the Kedron to wall of Jerusalem
Title:
Ancient olive trees, Garden of Gethsemane--looking W. across the Kedron to wall of Jerusalem [Graphic]
Year:
1905.
Creator:
Underwood & Underwood
Category:
Golden Gate (Jerusalem)
Object Details:
1 stereoscopic card : albumen ; 15.4 x 8.1 cm ( 6 x 3.25 in).
Notes:
Stereoscopic cards were originally housed in a box which looks like two books; the box is labeled "The Life of Christ 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 bottom with its location (33) in the box and with the photographic number (3212) ; 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 printed on the right end of the card with their locations (Arlington and Westwood, New Jersey and Washington, D.C.); and the title and copyright date (1905) are printed at the bottom of the card; a book entitled, "The Travel Lessons on the Life of Jesus" by William Byron Forbush (Second Edition, Revised; published by Underwood & Underwood, 1905) accompanies the stereoscopic cards; see 581UND/BB35 (Voyager # 324388)
A priest works in the garden, tending to the plants; behind him is a large olive tree; in the background, barely visible, is the Golden Gate
Collection:
CAJS Image Collection BA UND 543 BA33
The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries