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Photographs [as stereoscope cards] of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919) — The Public Domain Review (hcommons.social)
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Photographs [as stereoscope cards] of Life in Palestine (ca. 1896–1919) — The Public Domain Review

https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/photographs-of-palestinian-life/

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>> These images of Palestine before the British Mandate — all from #stereograph collections held by the Library of Congress and Brown University — ... were intended to feed a “Holy Land” mania that increasingly obsessed the United States throughout the nineteenth century, ...

>> ... Beneath the surface of biblical fantasy, we can glean a land alive with history and potential, a populace (of many faiths) immersed in the comings and goings of village, city, and family life — a vision of Palestine that is anything but, as the early Zionist slogan would have it, a “land without a people”...

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