2 Hand Coloured Photographs Jerusalem Circa 1914

Jerusalem: American Colony Photograph Studio, 1914. No Binding. Near Fine. Two original, hand coloured photographs, by the American Colony Studio, Jerusalem, circa 1914. Studio name embossed lower right corner on each photo. Visible photo size is 8.5 X 11 inches. Frame size is 14.5 X 17 inches. Old Bedouin Woman and Ramallah Peasant Spinning Wool. Matted and framed in Glasgow by Porteous & Co. Both, excellent examples. Please appreciate that my photographs were taken under low light to help buffer the glare from the glass. The American Colony in Jerusalem was started in 1881 by Anna and Horatio Spafford of Chicago and was later joined by a group of Swedish-American Christians. They engaged in philanthropic work among the people of Jerusalem building the trust of the local Muslim, Jewish, and other Christian communities. The photographic division of the American Colony was established in about 1900 as a means of income for the communal group, and soon expanded to a full time enterprise with Hol (Lewis) Larsson, G. Eric Matson, Erik Lind and Furman Baldwin as their primary photographers. Original examples of the group's work are not terribly common on the market despite their important role in documenting the region during the period 1900 - 1930 and the actual photographer of these two examples is unknown. Sold as a pair with special shipping considerations for framed items.