Holy Land Digital Image Collections

Fromet, Abbé

Jérusalem : Entrée des Pèlerins à Jérusalem par la porte de Jaffa [Graphic]

Jerusalem : Entrance of the Pilgrims to Jerusalem by the Jaffa Gate

[1886-1887].

1 photograph : albumen ; 12.4 x 16.6 cm ( 4.875 x 6.375 in).

Photographs are housed in a burlap-covered box; the burlap has been decorated using crewelwork with symbols and borders on four sides and the lid; the names "Bethlehem," "Bethanie," "Nazar[eth]," and "Jerusalem" each appear on one of the four sides; a pamphlet entitled "Souvenirs Photographiques d'un Pélerinage du Pénitence en Terre-Sainte par M. l'abbé Fromet, curé d'Angé (Loir-et-Cher)" and a list of the mounted photographs accompanies the XBD photographs; no title appears on the matte or the photograph; handwritten "28" on the matte refers to the number in the pamphlet

People in the street near the Jaffa Gate; people line the street as a procession of pilgrims walks by; one man carries a banner; an Ottoman flag flies from a flagpole

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Jaffa Gate (Jerusalem)

Pilgrims And Pilgrimages

Religious Processions

3721FRO/XBD20

CAJS Image Collection XBD FRO 3721 XBD20

The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Israel

Jerusalem