Herod's Street of Columns--the remains of magnificent Samaria, Palestine (looking east)

Description
1 stereoscopic card
Albumen
Creator
Underwood & Underwood
Collection
Lenkin Family Collection of Photography (University of Pennsylvania)
Extent
15.4 x 8.1 cm ( 6 x 3.25 in).
Notes
A lane of columns with a pathway and stone wall next to it.
The collection of stereoscopic cards was originally housed in a box which looks like two books. The box is labeled "Palestine Through the Stereoscope" and each of the "books" is marked either "Volume I" or "Volume II" and "Underwood & Underwood." The card is numbered at the top and bottom with its location (63) in the box and with the photographic number (3142). The publisher's name and locations (New York, London, Toronto-Canada, and Ottawa-Kansas) are listed on the left side of the card. "Works and Studios" for "Sun Sculpture" is listed on the right end of the card with their locations (Arlington and Westwood, New Jersey). The title and copyright date (1905) are printed at the bottom of the card.
Condition: Good; some fading
Provenance
Bertrand and Paola Lazard Holy Land Collection ; Sotheby's ; 1981 March 27
Rights
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

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