Jacob L. Loose Collection

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Businessman and humanitarian Jacob Loose and his philanthropist wife Ella were frequent travelers.  The collection is comprised of images from their early 20th century trips around the world, featuring views of locales as varied as Africa, Ceylon, India, Palestine, and numerous western European countries.
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Interior of the Grotto of Nativity

The interior of the Grotto of Nativity in Bethlehem, has many lamps and incense burners hanging. Printed along the bottom, "127 Grotto de la nativité interieur — Grotto of nativity interior. Damiani. Jérusalem."
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Grotto of the Nativity

The close-up photograph of the Grotto of the Nativity, shows drapes pulled aside to reveal many incense burners hanging over a medallion. Many lamps hang from the ceiling. The grotto has a cage locked over the opening. "Printed along the bottom of the photograph, "Grotto of the Nativity. 288. Grotte da la Nativité." Printed on the bottom, right-hand corner in white ink script. "American Colony, Jerusalem."
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Christmas day procession in Bethlehem

A large procession of priests, nuns, and a choir, progress down a cobbled street in Bethlehem on Christmas Day. Ottoman police stand in the road ahead of the procession for crowd control. Huge crowds fill the streets, rooftops, and stairways of the light-colored buildings leading to the streets to watch the procession. Behind the people standing by the street, several people sit on horses or stand in their carriages or wagons to get a view. Camels and donkeys, loaded with packs, rest behind the crowd on the right side of the photograph. A temporary tent is set up along the closest building beside the animals. There are also goats and sheep in the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph. Printed in white ink below the photograph, "Christmas Day at Bethlehem. 347. Noel a Bethleem." Printed in white ink script in the bottom, left-hand corner of the photograph, "American Colony, Jerusalem."
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Manger in the Church of the Nativity

The manger in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Four lamps or incense burners sit along the back of the manger. A cage is long across the front of the manger. An embroidered cloth hangs on the wall behind the manger. Several crosses are carved into the rock of the support column and the manger itself. Printed along the bottom of the photograph in white ink, "The Manger, Church of the Nativity. 289.A. La Crêche." Printed on the bottom, right-hand corner in white ink script. "American Colony, Jerusalem."
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Man plowing a field

A Middle Eastern peasant man is plowing a rocky field with a bovine and a donkey hooked up to the plow. The field is surrounded by a rock wall. Two trees stand in the field. Another bovine and another man stand in the field in the background of the photograph. Printed in white ink below the photograph, "Peasant Plowing, 364." The same phrase is printed in another language but is cut off by the edge of the paper. Printed in white ink script in the bottom, left-hand corner of the photograph, "American Colony, Jerusalem."
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Women and children of Bethlehem

Two women and four children dressed in their traditional clothing of Bethlehem, stand on a stoop of a rock staircase running beside a rock building to their right. The girl in the front is barefooted. Printed in white ink below the photograph, "Women and Children of Bethlehem, 363, Femme et Enfants de Bethlehem." Printed in white ink script in the bottom, left-hand corner of the photograph, "American Colony, Jerusalem."
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Water porter in Jerusalem

A Middle Eastern man wearing a turban, carries water stored in the cavity of a hog by ropes strapped to his back in Jerusalem. He stands in front of a tall stone wall. Printed below the photograph, "15,117. P.Z. - Porteur d'eau de Jerusalem."
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Bazaar in Bethlehem

The bazaar in Bethlehem, sits in an square surrounded by miles of buildings. Several camels stand or lie in the square ad many people stand or walk in the square. Pack donkeys stand on the bottom right-hand corner of the photograph. Printed along the bottom of the photograph, "123 Scéne du marché à Bethleém — Bazar at Bethlehem. Damiani. Jérusalem."
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Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem

The interior of the Church of Nativity in Bethlehem has many incense burners and holder hung everywhere. Printed along the bottom of the photograph, "125 Eglise de la nativité. — Church of the nativity interior. Daminai. Jérusalem."
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Jordan River

From the muddy shoreline of the Jordan River, is a view of the trees and cliffs on the other side. Printed in white ink on the bottom, center of the photograph, "149. Le Jourdain. — Jordan. Damiani. Jérusalem."
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Golden Gate into Jerusalem

The exterior of the Golden Gate is sealed in the old city wall that used to surround Jerusalem. The rubble outside of the gate gives hints of stairways and possibly benches. The city wall is lined with parapets along the top. Printed along the bottom in white ink, "75 Porte dorée, extérieur The golden gate, exterior. Damiani, Jérusalem."
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Saint Stephen's Gate

The walls on either side of the rock and dirt road leading up to St. Stephen's Gate, are different. The wall on the left is cut stone with mortar, and the wall on the right is dry-stack stone. A man walks on the road toward the arched gate in the high stone wall with a parapet top as a group of people walk through the center of the gate. The city walls extend out from the gate. There is a gatekeeper on either side of the wearing Ottoman uniforms. Printed below the photograph, "Porte St. Étienne. — St. Stephen's gate. Damiani. Jérusalem."
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Women praying at the Wailing Wall

Jewish women lean on or bow toward the Wailing Wall, in Jerusalem. The was is made of large rectangles of cut stone. Their backs are to the photographer as they face the wall.
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Al-Aqsa Mosque

The few people in the grounds leading up to Al-Aqsa Mosque, give perspective to how large the structure is. Nine people walking, sitting, or lying on the grounds, look tiny compared to the large mosque that has seven arched openings into the interior, a gabled and a domed roofs. Seven trees form a sort of entry "road" into the mosque. Printed along the bottom of the photograph, "62 [illegible], Damiani. Jérusalem."
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Mosque of Dome of the Rock

The mosque in Jerusalem called Qubbat al-Ṣakhrah contains the Dome of the Rock. The mosque is in a compound of many smaller buildings, all with dome roofs, in a desert landscape.
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