The story of this collection and the man behind it
Originator: Yoel Amir
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This is a first attempt to collect and organize hundreds of pictures of the Holy Land - photos and paintings on postcards and black-white travel book photos - into one visual story, namely the "19th Century Holy
Land Pilgrimage".
[The sources are listed at the end of this section]
I, myself, am an electronics engineer whose hobby is the study of the history of 19th and early 20th history Palestine, particularly the story of the settlement of the German Templers during the second half of the 19th century. This led to the discovery and study of a small tourist album issued in color by the Templer brothers Imberger of Jerusalem, which was exhibited in large scale pictures in the Tel-Aviv Eretz-Israel Museum (2004) and an edition of color facsimile published by the Yad Ben Zvi Press of Jerusalem.
Later on, I began collecting postcards of the Holy Land painted by Orientalists who had visited and recorded the landscapes and people of the Holy Land. This unique collection was recapitulated in another exhibit in the Tel-Aviv Eretz-Israel Museum in 2008 and was accompanied by the album entitled "The Orientalists, Postcards of the Holy Land, 1880-1935".
Sources
(of art postcards, color picture, b/w illustrations, b/w photos, travel books)
Album La Terre Sainte, 1900
Alder, Lydia D., "The Holy Land", The Desert News, Salt Lake City 1912 *
Amir, Yoel, "The Orientalists, Postcards of the Holy Land 1880-1935", Eretz Israel Museum, Tel-Aviv, 2008
Amir, Yoel, "Holy Land Scenes 1906", Yad Ben-Zvi Press, Jerusalem 2006 *
Amir, Yoel's collection of art postcards of the Holy Land (1880-1935), now in the National Library in Jerusalem, Israel
Amir, Yoel's collection (philatelic material and photo albums of the Holy Land 1870-1940), now in the National Library in Jerusalem, Israel
Bell, Archie, "The Spell of the Holy Land", 1915, the Page Co., Boston *
Bishop J. H. Vincent, Rev. J. W. Lee, R.E.M. Bain, photographer, "Earthly Footsteps of the Man of Galilee", N.D. Thompson Publishing Co., New York, 1894 *
Breen, A. E., "A Diary of My Life in the Holy Land", John P. Smith Printing Co. Rochester N.Y 1906 *
Butler, Elizabeth, "Letters from the Holy Land", A. & C. Black, London 1903 *
Clark, Francis E., "In Christ's Own Country", The Christian Herald, Bible House, New York 1914 *
Carpenter, Frank G., "The Holy Land and Syria", Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, 1922-1925*
Copping, Arthur E., "A Journalist in the Holy Land", The Religious Tract Society", London, 1911 *
De Simini, M. (ed.), "Album Souvenir Jerusalem Palestine", Jerusalem, ca. 1910 *
Edwards, Robert A., Rev., "From Joppa to Mount Hermon", Autumn-Winter 1889-1890 (YBZ Library)
Elmendorf, Dwight L., "A Camera Crusade through the Holy Land", New York, 1912 *
Finnemore, J. & J. Fulleylove, "Peeps at Many Lands – The Holy Land", A. & C. Black, London, 1908 *
Fulton, John, "Palestine: the Holy Land", The John C. Winston Co., Philadelphia, 1900 *
Finley, John, "A Pilgrim in Palestine", Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1919 *
Fulleylove, J. and J. Kelman, "The Holy Land", A. & C. Black, London, 1912 *
Geikie Cunningham, "The Holy Land and the Bible: Joppa and its Neighborhood", John B. Alden Publishers, New York, January 1888 *
Geikie Cunningham, "The Holy Land and the Bible", James Clarke & Co., London, 1889. Illustrations by H.A. Harper *
Greene, H. B., "Pressed Flowers from the Holy Land", H. B. Greene, Lowell, Mass. 1903 *
Griswold, S.M. Mrs., "A Woman's Pilgrimage to the Holy Land", J.B. Burr & Hyde, Hartford, Conn., 1872 *
Harland, Marion, "Home of the Bible", The National Book Concern, Chicago, 1895 *
Harper, Henry A., "Illustrated Letters from the Holy Land", Pacific Press Publish. Co., Oakland, CA, 1890 *
Hazard, Caroline, "A Brief Pilgrimage in the Holy Land", Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston & New York, 1909 *
Herzl, Th., "Altneuland", 1902, English version, Bloch Publishing Co. New York, 1941
Hichens, H. & Jules Guerin, "The Holy Land", The Century Co., New York, 1910 *
Hurlbut, Jesse L., Rev. D.D. "Hurlbut's Story of Jesus for Young and Old", Universal Book and Bible House, Philadelphia, PA., 1915 *
Kean, James "Among the Holy Places, a Pilgrimage through Palestine", T. Fisher Unwin, London, 1891 (1st edition) (1908 – 6th edition) *
Korem A. - Collection of mid 19th century Holy Land pictures
Langbein P., "Bilder aus dem Heiligen Land", E. Kaufmann, Lahr Baden, 1899 *
"La Terre Sainte", Paris, second edition, early 20th c. #
Lees, G. Robinson, "Village Life in Palestine", Longmans, Green and Co., London, 1907 *
Manthey-Zorn, Carl, "Der Heiland", Verlag des Northwestern Publishing House", Milwaukee, 1907. Paintings by A. Loffler (German Orientalist). *
Map of the Holy Land Pilgrimage Route (at the end of the 19th century). Prepared for the exhibition at the Eretz Israel Museum, based upon an 1894 original map printed in reference no. 3.
Neil James, "Everyday Life in the Holy Land", Cassel and Co., London, 1913 *
Newton, Richard, Rev. D.D., "Rambles through Bible Lands", T. Nelson and Sons, Edinburgh & New York, 1885
Landauer, Georg, "Palestina" , Meyer & Jessen Verlag Munchen 1925
Oliphant, Mrs., "Jerusalem, its History and Hope", Macmillan & Co. London, 1891 *
"Palestine", Munich, 1925 #
Penlake, Richard, "A Book of Modern Palestine for Boys and Girls", Thomas Nelson and Sons, London, 1913 *
Prescott, H.F.M., "Jerusalem Journey – Pilgrimage to the Holy Land in the 15th Century", Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1954 *
Prescott, H.F.M., "Once to Sinai – The Further Pilgrimage of Friar Felix Fabri", Eyre & Spottiswoode, London, 1957 *
Rix, Herbert, "Tent and Testament - a camping tour in Palestine", Wiliam and Norgate, London, 1901 *
Shepp, D. B. & J.W., "The Holy Land Photographed", Philadelphia, PA, 1894 *
Temple, Richard, Sir, "Palestine Illustrated", W.H. Allen & Co., London, 1888 *
"The Cruise of the Eight Hundred to and through Palestine", The Christian Herald, New York, 1904 *
"The Holy Land, Egypt, the Nile, Greece and Turkey - special camping tour through Palestine", Raymond & Whitcomb Co., 1911 *
The Mentor, "The Holy Land", volume 3, no. 20, New York City, December 1 1915 *
Thomson, W. M., "The Land and the Book", Th. Nelson and Sons, London, 1877 *
Twain, Mark, "Innocents Abroad", 1884 edition, free Internet copy. *
Van Dyke, Henry, "Out of Doors in the Holy Land", Copp, Clark Co., Toronto, 1908 *
Warner, C. D., "The Complete Writings of Charles Dudley Warner – In the Levant", The American Publishing Company, Hartford, Conn., 1876 *
Watson, Patrick, "Notes and Illustrations of a Palestine Pilgrimage", Ernest Nister, London, 1890-1895 *
Whiting, John D., "Village Life in the Holy Land", The National Geographic Magazine, Washington D.C, March, 1914, No. 3, volume XXV *
"100 Pictures from the Holy Land", Printed in Palestine, 1940? *
* now in the National Library in Jerusalem, Israel
# now in the Yad Ben Zvi, Jerusalem archive