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CITIES and VILLAGES

ENJOYMENTS and PAINS

PALESTINE

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Jerusalem water works.

Peasant women filling their buckets

1917 or 1918

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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Watering the war camels at Asluj - 1917       

Larsson, Lewis (Photographer)

American Colony Photo Department (Creator)

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

Jerusalem water works.

Filling the reservoir at Ain Arroub

1917 or 1918

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

Jerusalem water works.

Course of aqueduct at Ain Arroub

1917 or 1918

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

Jerusalem water works.

Near view of the reservoir at Ain Arroub

1918

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

Jerusalem water works.

Guard house at Jerusalem reservoir

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer

1917 or 1918

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

Jerusalem water works.

Peasant watering his donkey

1917 or 1918

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

Jerusalem water works.

Filling waterskins at Damascus Gate

1917 or 1918

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

Jerusalem water works.

Stand pipe at Damascus Gate

1917 or 1918

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

Prisoners at Jericho in line for water.

ARC cared for them

23 November 1918 

American National Red Cross photograph collection (Library of Congress)

world war palestine guerre ww1

Camel train from Jerash Watering at Elijah's Fountain near Jericho

Realistic Travels, publisher

1918

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

A Jerusalem porter carrying fifty empty petrol tins on his back

These were used as water containers, esp. during the war in Sinai Desert.

between 1914 and 1918

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

Crowd of men and women getting water from spigots,

possibly at the Jerusalem Waterworks at Ain Arroub

1917

American Colony (Jerusalem). Photo Dept., photographer

G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

world war palestine guerre ww1

Impossible to sink in the Dead Sea.

Realistic Travels, publisher

1918

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C

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