Palestine Exploration Fund photograph collection
odd: label: Local Call Number(s)
content: NAA Photo Lot 158, USNM ACC 29586, USNM ACC 22944, USNM ACC 23302
name: label: Collector
content: Palestine Exploration Fund
place: label: Place
content: Middle East -- Antiquities
label: Place
content: Syria
label: Place
content: Israel
label: Place
content: Palestine
creator: label: Collector
content: Palestine Exploration Fund
culture: label: Culture
content: Palestinian Arabs
label: Culture
content: Jews
label: Culture
content: Samaritans
setName: label: See more items in
content: Palestine Exploration Fund photograph collection
bioghist: label: Biographical/Historical note
content: The Palestine Exploration Fund was established in 1865 by a group of British academics and clergymen to "promote research into the archaeology and history, manners and customs and culture, topography, geology and natural sciences of biblical Palestine and the Levant."
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 56 Albumen prints (mounted)
unitdate: label: Date
content: circa 1890-1895
custodhist: label: Custodial History note
content: Donated to the United States National Museum from the Palestine Exploration Fund in 1890 (accession 22944) and 1895 (accession 29586). Collection also includes material donated by D. Sulzberger in 1890 (accession 23302). Seven photographs were found in the files in the office of Gus Van Beek, a Smithsonian anthropologist, and transferred to the National Anthropological Archives, 1979.
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: National Anthropological Archives
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NAA.PhotoLot.158
objectType: label: Type
content: Collection descriptions
label: Type
content: Archival materials
label: Type
content: Albumen prints
label: Type
content: Photographs
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies note
content: Digital surrogate is available online.
genre_format: label: Genre/Form
content: Photographs
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: Photographs collected by the Palestine Exploration Fund depicting sites and peoples in Syria, Israel, and Palestine that relate to Biblical events.  Sites include the Great Mosque in Damascus, Nazareth, a Samaritan camp, remains of synagogues, Mount Gerizim, and Jerusalem.  The photographs, which were either made or funded by members of the Palestine Exploration Fund, were collected by the United States National Museum for the Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1895. Many of them still have the accompanying text from that exhibit, including identification information and Biblical citations.
relatedmaterial: label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: This collection has been relocated from Photo Lot 79-38.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional Palestine Exploration Fund photographs, previously filed in Photo Lot 97, have been relocated and merged with Photo Lot 158.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Images of exhibits at the Cotton States and International Exposition can be found in the National Anthropological Archives in the BAE historical negatives.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Smithsonian Institution Archives holds the Exposition Records of the Smithsonian Institution and the United States National Museum, 1867-1940 (SIA RU000070).
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: Additional material from the Palestine Exploration Fund can be found in the Department of Anthropology in accession 35833.
label: Location of Other Archival Materials
content: The Palestine Exploration Fund archives holds additional photographs and artifacts relating to its studies.