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THE VIRGIN’S SPRING (MARY’S WELL), NAZARETH, c. 1905
The well is not as picturesque today. The pilgrim Herbert Rix in his 1906 book Tent and Testament described his visit to St. Mary’s Well which is the sole spring by which Nazareth is supplied by living water. “I found it surrounded by a crowd of women and girls filling their earthen pitchers at the arched fountain. Some, I am sorry to say, used large square paraffin-tins…I once asked some of the folk why they used these instead of the graceful earthen pitchers which they had inherited from antiquity, and they very simply replied, ‘Because they do not break!’
Photographers: American Colony Studio , Jerusalem
Photographs bearing this signature were made by a number of highly talented photographers who belonged to the Colony, which was founded in 1881 by the Protestant Spafford family from Chicago. The photographic department was founded about 1898, or slightly before, by Frederick Vester and Elijah Meyers to record the impending visit of Kaiser Wilhelm II. Over the years, the several photographers, who signed their work “The American Colony,” produced many thousands of images. In 1922 a branch of the American Colony Stores was opened in New York City, making their monumental collection available in America.
- Image size 6.5" x 5"
- Mount size 9.5" x 7.5 "
- Acid free mount
- Full description of the photograph
- Details and history of photographer
- Cellophane wrapped
- Ideal Gift
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