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Bernath Mss 68
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Title: Middle East Photograph Album,
Date (inclusive): ca. latter 1930s - mid 1940s
Collection Number: Bernath Mss 68
Creator:
Matson Photo Service
Extent:
.3 linear feet
(1 oversize box)
Repository:
University of California, Santa Barbara. Library. Department of Special Collections
Santa Barbara, California 93106-9010
Physical Location: Del Sur Oversize
Language:
English.
None.
Copyright has not been assigned to the Department of Special Collections, UCSB. All requests for permission to publish or
quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given
on behalf of the Department of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission of the copyright holder, which also must be obtained.
Middle East Photograph Album. Bernath Mss 68. Department of Special Collections, Davidson Library, University of California,
Santa Barbara.
Purchase, 2003.
Scope and Content of Collection
Photograph album with more than 150 black/white images taken by the Matson Photo Service (Jerusalem, Palestine), ca. latter
1930s-mid 1940s. Mainly Palestine (Tiberias, Mt. Hermon, Dagania, Haifa, Akka, Tel-Aviv, Bethlehem, Ramallah, and Jerusalem);
also Egypt (Port Said, Ismailia, Alexandria, Memphis, Cairo, the Nile, Pyramids, Sphinx, National Museum), Iraq (Baghdad,
Kadimain, Babylon, Ur, Euphrates River, Kufa, Mosul, Kirkuk), Syria (Damascus, Aleppo, Palmyra), and Lebanon (Baalbek, Nakura,
Damour Valley, Beirut). Included are many shots of local residents, street scenes, buildings, monuments, and countryside.