Jaffa, the Joppa of Bible times, Palestine.
Underwood & Underwood
Category
Photographs
Date
1900 - 1910
Materials
Card
Measurements
Card size 88 x 178 mm
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Fox Talbot Museum, Wiltshire
NT 1520669.2
Summary
A gelatine silver print stereograph depicting a rowing boat lowered from a ship with a town in the background. The print is mounted on stiff, curved, grey card with rounded corners. The images have arched tops and square bottoms. Recto: Printed in black in on the right lower margin: (1) - 3080 - Jaffa, the Joppa of Bible times, Palestine. Copyright Underwood & Underwood U-137202. In the left hand margin, printed in italic black ink: "Underwood and Underwood Publishers New York, London, Toronto - Canada, Ottawa - Kansas. In the right hand margin: "Works and Studios Arlington, N.J., Westwood, N.J In the centre top is printed in black ink the number 1. Verso is printed in black ink in English and 5 other languages 'Jaffa, the Joppa of Bible times, Palestine'.
Provenance
Part of the Fenton Collection. A gift from British Film Institute in 2017. From 1986-1999, part of BFI collection for the Museum of the Moving Image. BFI purchased collection in 1986 from James Fenton's Museum of Photography, Port Erin, Isle of Man 1976-1986
Makers and roles
Underwood & Underwood, publisher