[Mi]naret de la Fiancée]
- Description
- 1 photograph
- photochrome
- Alternate Title
- Minaret of the Bride
- Collection
- Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)
- Extent
- 22.5 x 16.5 cm ( 8.875 x 6.5 in).
- Notes
- A long two-story rectangular building with a minaret and the city of Damascus in the background.
- The photograph is mounted facing a page of wildflowers which are labeled (in French, English and German) as coming from Nazareth. The album cover is polished wood with a colored inlay. The title is inked on the cover along with the subtitle ("Jerusalem" in Hebrew). The title page contains the title in French, English and German and a handwritten dedication from 1904. An earlier page contains a dedication dated 1921. The back cover contains crosses.
- The photograph was not catalogued by Lazard--it was catalogued at LKCAJS. Lazard questioned whether the photograph was colored by Photochrom Zurich. The Dumas notation refers to photograph 4487DUM/ABK10CAJS. Part of this page's title is missing.
- Condition: Good
- Lazard inserted handwritten notations inside the front cover: "18 photographies colorers PZ? 1 de Dumas nonfiche."
- Provenance
- Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
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