Holy Land Digital Image Collections

Bain, Robert E. M

Oil Mill, Damascus--In the time of Ezekiel Damascus was the merchant of Tyre, and Tyre was the seaport town of Damascus [Graphic]

Earthly Footsteps of The Man of Galilee Being Three Hundred and Eighty-Four Original Photographic Views and Descriptions of the Places Connected with the Earthly Life of Our Lord and His Apostles Traced with Note Book and Camera showing where Christ was born, brought up, baptized, tempted, transfigured and crucified, together with the scenes of his prayers, tears, miracles and sermons, and also places made sacred by the labors of his apostles, from Jerusalem to Rome by Bishop John H. Vincent, D.D., LL.D., Rev. James W. Lee, D.D., and R.E.M. Bain. London: W.A. Hammond, Holborn Hall, E.C.

St. Louis, 1894.

1 photograph : b&w ; 25.4 x 17.4 cm ( 10 x 6.875 in).

Photograph is in a book with a description beneath ; printed description: "(Ezekiel, xxvii:18.)--'Damascus was thy merchant in the multitude of the wares of thy making, for the multitude of all riches; in the wine of Helbon, and white wool.' Damascus has always been a very important commercial city. On the great highway between the Mediterranean and the nations of the east it has always been an influential trade point. At the time Ezekiel wrote this twenty-seventh chapter Tyre was the seaport town of Damascus as Beyrout is to-day. In the above picture we have an oil mill photographed by our artist. The oil produced in this mill is olive oil. The olive furnishes oil for nearly all the cooking which is done in the east as well as furnishes lights. There is an old saying that, 'When the oil fails the lamp in the dwelling of the poor expires.' The olive berries begin to ripen early in the autumn . They are allowed to remain on the trees sometimes, though guarded."

Exterior of an oil mill and several animals; the second floor of the mill is partially screened by tree limbs and branches

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Manufacture

Architecture

Oil Mill

5568BAI/LVii294CAJS

CAJS Image Collection LVii BAI 5568 LVii294CAJS

The Lenkin Family Collection of Photography, University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Syria

Damascus