Picture a Day: Celebrating July 4th in the Holy Land 100 Years Ag...

Picture a Day: Celebrating July 4th in the Holy Land 100 Years Ag...:  4th of July commemoration in Jerusalem with flags and toy guns (circa 1905).  Note the Swedish flag; some of the American Colony mem...

Picture a Day: The Jewish State in Formation Required Major Indus...

Picture a Day: The Jewish State in Formation Required Major Indus...: Palestine Potash Company on the shore of the Dead Sea (c 1937). Note the airplane, upper right corner of picture. In the late 19th and...

Picture a Day: Steamroller in Jerusalem 100 Years Ago -- an Updat...

Picture a Day: Steamroller in Jerusalem 100 Years Ago -- an Updat...: " Steamroller (sic) in Jerusalem " with U.S. and Turkish flag outside of the Old City's Jaffa Gate We recently posted a feature on a ...

Picture a Day: Another Mystery Photo Identified. New depth to th...

Picture a Day: Another Mystery Photo Identified. New depth to th...: " A Jewish colony " dated sometime between 1898 and 1946. Where and when was the picture taken? The buildings in the circles help identi...

Picture a Day: Another Mystery Photo -- A Steamroller in Jerusale...

Picture a Day: Another Mystery Photo -- A Steamroller in Jerusale...: " Steamroller on Jerusalem Street" is the caption The Library of Congress provides little information about this dynamic picture in Jer...

Picture a Day: Ultra-Orthodox Jews also Established Agricultural ...

Picture a Day: Ultra-Orthodox Jews also Established Agricultural ...: The  blacksmith of Kfar Chassidim and former resident of a Polish shtetl.  (1935) Many of the kibbutz and moshav agricultural communit...

Picture a Day: What Is "Carding Cotton?"Old photograph shows old ...

Picture a Day: What Is "Carding Cotton?"Old photograph shows old ...: Jews carding cotton The caption on this picture from the Library of Congress' American Colony collection reads "Jews Carding Cotton " so...

Picture a Day: How Strange Does the American Colony Story Get? ...

Picture a Day: How Strange Does the American Colony Story Get? ...: Jacob Eliahu Spafford  Meet Jacob David Eliahu, born in 1864 to Turkish Jewish parents in Palestine. Jacob and his parents were conve...

Picture a Day: Who Was Mendel Kremer? Jewish pharmacist, Turkish...

Picture a Day: Who Was Mendel Kremer? Jewish pharmacist, Turkish...: British commissioner Samuel (center), Chief Rabbi Kook (in  fur hat), and Mendel Kremer in white suit (1925).  Who was this man? Centra...

Picture a Day: A Mystery Picture of a "Triumphal Arch in Jerusal...

Picture a Day: A Mystery Picture of a "Triumphal Arch in Jerusal...: " Triumphal arch " in Jerusalem, sometime between 1898 and 1946 Where? Why? When? There are many pictures in the American Colony collec...