Stephen Haboush Photograph Collection
name: label: Creator
content: Haboush, Stephen A.
place: label: Place
content: Israel
label: Place
content: Palestine
label: Place
content: Middle East
topic: label: Topic
content: Lecturers
label: Topic
content: Travel photography
label: Topic
content: Photographers
acqinfo: label: Provenance
content: The collection was donated by Roger M. Lepley on January 1, 2009.
creator: label: Creator
content: Haboush, Stephen A.
setName: label: See more items in
content: Stephen Haboush Photograph Collection
abstract: label: Summary
content: This collection documents, through lantern slides, slides, prints and negatives, life in Jerusalem, Damascus, Cairo, and other locations in the Middle East.  The majority of the photographs were created and assembled by Stephen Haboush, although some were purchased. Haboush routinely traveled to his birthplace of Israel and he photographed his travels.  He then used the photographs for lectures about his life as a shepherd and experiences in the Holy Land.
bioghist: label: Biographical / Historical
content: Stephen Haboush was born on June 28, 1892 in Galilee, Israel.  Haboush emigrated to the United States circa 1914 and became an American citizen in 1923. During the 1920s, Haboush joined the Chautauqua Lyceum Lecture circuit. The Chautauqua idea comes from the original Chautauqua Institution, which was founded in 1874 on Lake Chautauqua in western New York. The original idea was to offer one-to-two week summer retreats for adults to continue their education by attending lectures and performances.  The lyceum version of Chautauqua was also offered to adults, but the lectures and performances were held during the fall, winter and spring, and took place in schools, church halls, or opera houses not located at Lake Chautauqua, but around the United States.  Haboush died in March 1975.

Haboush lectured widely, sometimes with his wife, presenting slide lectures and musical travelogues about the Holy Land, and his experiences as a shepherd. Haboush photographed his travels throughout the Middle East, especially Jerusalem.  He wrote two books, Over the Hills of Galilee (1924) and My Shepherd Life in Galilee: With an Exegesis of the Shepherd Psalm (1949). The latter was Haboush's interpretation of the 23rd Psalm.
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1 Cubic foot (11 boxes)
phystech: label: Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
content: Gloves must be worn when handling unprotected photographs, negatives, and slides.
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1920-1960
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1143
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Lantern slides
label: Type
content: Slides (photographs)
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: The collection is arranged into three series.

Series 1, Lantern Slides, undated

Series 2, Negatives and Transparencies and Prints, undated

Series 3, Slides, undated
processinfo: label: Processing Information
content: Processed by Alison Oswald, archivist, 2012.
bibliography: label: Bibliography
content: Crane, Frederick. "The Music of Chautauqua and Lyceum,"  -- Black Music Research Letter -- , 4, No. 3 (Spring 1981): 4-6.

"Hussein's Feet Point Westward," -- Miami News -- , March 8, 1964. 

"South-Eastern Bible College Will Hear Galilean Speak,"  -- Lakeland Ledger  -- (Florida), November 11, 1959.

Ritzenthaler, Mary Lynn and Diane Vogt-O'Connor.  -- Photographs: Archival Care and Management. --  Chicago: Society of American Archivists, 2006.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Lantern slides -- 1900-1950
label: Genre/Form
content: Slides (photographs) -- 20th century
label: Genre/Form
content: Slides (photographs)
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: This collection documents, through lantern slides, slides, prints and negatives, life in Jerusalem, Damascus, Cairo, and other locations in the Middle East.  The majority of the photographs were created and assembled by Stephen Haboush, although some were purchased. Haboush routinely traveled to his birthplace of Israel and he photographed his travels.  He then used the photographs for lectures about his life as a shepherd and experiences in the Holy Land. 

There is a specific emphasis on the activity of shepherding, but there are photographs depicting generally landscapes, flora, the Wailing Wall, pottery, sunsets, buildings, altars, churches, mosques, rock formations, boats on the river, camels, market scenes, donkeys, villages, tilework, streetscapes, maps of Egypt and Palestine, and individuals--shepherds, British soldiers, and women at a well. 

The collections consists primarily of lantern slides which are loosely organized.  Lantern slides are positive images on glass and the exterior glass. Lantern slides were intended to be projected for viewing and were a popular entertainment medium in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Small groupings of slides and photographs were identified, but there is little arrangement and identification of the materials. Some of the materials are identified and numbered, and when this was possible, these materials were grouped together.  Many of the numbered groups of slides have great gaps.   Some of the miscellaneous slides have been grouped and briefly identified, for example, "British Soldiers."