Lebanon
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Djisr Kakaiyeh (Pont Sur Le Leontes) Libano, c 1914
Item — Box PC6: Series Coll-1167/G; Series Coll-1167/H; Series Coll-1167/I; Series Coll-1167/J
Identifier: Coll-1167/H/1/36
Scope and Contents
A lithograph drawn by Charles van de Velde and lithography by Léon Sabatier, showing Leontes Bridge, a Roman segmental arch bridge in Lebanon, which crosses the Litani River in the vicinity of Nahr Abou Assouad.
Dates:
c 1914
Foret Dans Les Hautes Regions Du Liban, c 1914
Item — Box PC6: Series Coll-1167/G; Series Coll-1167/H; Series Coll-1167/I; Series Coll-1167/J
Identifier: Coll-1167/H/1/95
Scope and Contents
A lithograph drawn by Charles van de Velde and lithography by Léon Sabatier, showing the forests of the high regions of Lebanon
Dates:
c 1914
Le Pays D' Israel, c 1914
sub-series — Box PC6: Series Coll-1167/G; Series Coll-1167/H; Series Coll-1167/I; Series Coll-1167/J
Identifier: Coll-1167/H/1
Scope and Contents
Charles William Meredith van de Velde surveyed Palestine in 1851. There he undertook various surveys, drawings, paintings and he published an album of 100 lithograph plates entitled 'Le Pays d'Israel: Collection de cent vues d'après nature dans la Syrie et la Palestine' in 1857. The volume was published by Jules Renouard in Paris, France. 20 of the lithographs from that volume are found in this series.
Dates:
c 1914
Patrick Geddes in Palestine, 1910-1925
Series
Identifier: Coll-1167/H
Scope and Contents
From childhood, Patrick Geddes had been deeply interested in Palestine. The city of Jerusalem had appeared in the Cities and Town Planning Exhibition in 1911 as an important component of its message. Geddes was in contact with a prominent Zionist, Israeel Zangwill, from the 1890s. In 1919, the importance of the area's future was elevated on the international agenda. A friend and colleague of Zangwill, Dr. M.D. Eder, was involved with the Zionist Commission's project for a Hebrew University...
Dates:
1910-1925