Slide set: From Baghdad to Palestine (lecture: privately made, 96-109 slides, 1920s)

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[Map of route from Baghdad to Palestine]

Slide 1

The River Tigris at Bagdad showing Maude Bridge

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The Mail Car leaving G.P.O., Bagdad, en route for Haifa, Palestine

Slide 3

First halt in desert. Ahmed, ex-Shah of Persia and retinue

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On the desert trail. Note Armoured Car Escort for ex-Shah

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Pioneers of Trans-Desert Route. Jerry, one of the two brothers Nairn (two hands in pockets)

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Damascus. French Troops en fete for the Shah

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Country between Beyrout and Haifa (quite near Tyre and Sidon)

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En route between Beyrout and Haifa. The normal country transport

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The Valley of Rephaim, quite near Jerusalem

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Looking down to the Pool of Siloam from the 'Dung Gate' of the City of Jerusalem

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Lower slopes of Mount Olivet (Gethsemane in centre foreground)

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The Golden Gate from the inside of the Temple Area

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Gathering Olives in the Valley of Hinnom

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The present day Pool of Siloam. Native women drawing water

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Steep ascent to City Walls from the S.E.

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Absalom's Pillar in the Valley of the Kidron

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St James's Tomb and Zechariah's Tomb in the Valley of the Kidron

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The Jews' Wailing Place (Outside the wall of the Temple Area)

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Part of Temple Area. Antonia's Palace on right

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Traditional site of Habitation of Martha and Mary in Bethany

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On the road to Jericho looking back to Bethany

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The 'Good Samaritan's Inn'. Much battered by gunfire

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Behind Good Samaritan's Inn showing intervening country back to Jerusalem

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View of modern Jericho in the Plain of Jordan

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Hill of Temptation. Greek Monastery in the Hill-side

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St George's Monastery in the Gorge of the Brook Cherith

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Looking towards the Dead Sea from Ancient Jericho

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Cana of Galilee (approaching from Nazareth)

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View of Tiberias from Dr Christie's verandah

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Sea of Tiberias (or Galilee) from Dr Christie's

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Restored ruins of the Synagogue at Capernaum

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Bethsaida on the shores of the S. of Galilee

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Upper reaches of the Jordan. Passing over into French Mandated territory and the land of the Jebel Druse

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Entering Damascus from the South. Valley of River Pharpar

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Damascus. Thoroughfare leading to Mosque Omayad

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Damascus. The house with open gate is known as that of Ananias

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Baalbek. Looking up Temple from hexagonal Court

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Baalbek. Right hand corner of propylea adjoining entrance to hexagonal court

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Baalbek. Six pillars of the Temple of Jupiter

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Baalbek. Near view of the sculpture crowning the pillars of Jupiter's Temple

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Baalbek. The Great Stone hewn in Baalbec quarries ready for inclusion in the Temple buildings

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Baalbek. Byzantine sculpture on Bath in West Court of the Great Altar of Sacrifice

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Baalbek. View interior of Temple of Bacchus

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Baalbek. Corner of Bacchus' Temple from above showing roof of terrace

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Smyrna. Day breaking over burnt out warehouse

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Athens. Entrance to propylea of the Acropolis

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Athens. View of City from Acropolis showing hill of Penticlon

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Athens. Hill of the Areopagus (left foreground)

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Athens. Near view of the hill of the Areopagus (Mars hill)

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Athens. Propylea to Acropolis from Temple of Minaur

Number of slides

96 minimum, 109 maximum (original set of 96, with 13 additional slides added later)

Manufacturer

privately made, England

Date of first manufacture

1920s (earliest possible 1926, latest possible 1933)

Events where this set was shown

From Baghdad to Palestine (lantern lecture, Northiam, Sussex (East), England, 2 March 1934)

People involved in slide production

PARKER, Major G.H., F.R.G.S., M.C. (1883- after 1957) – photographer, slides [0], 1, 1a, 1b, 2-10, 10a, 10b, 11-12, 12a-20, 20a, 21-24, 24a, 24b, 24c, 25-48, 48c, 49-52, 52a, 53-96

Notes

The slide titles and order are taken from Parker's handwritten lecture notes, also in the collection of the Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon. Eleven of the slides (numbers 74-84 as listed here) are also used in Parker's lecture set [Petra, Palmyra and Baalbek] (Lucerna ID 3009460).

The rear view of Slide 10a shows that the image is photographed from an article 'Pioneers of the Syrian desert: the Damascus-Baghdad mail celebrates its tenth anniversary' by Dorothy Mackay -- the bus service (according to Parker's lecture notes) was inaugurated in October 1923. This suggests that the additional slides with suffix letters were added to the set in about 1933.

Slide 13a is a commercially-produced slide, presumably added to illustrate an important location in Parker's lecture narrative for which he did not have a photograph of his own.

Collections

107 slides in Museum of Barnstaple and North Devon

Lucerna ID 3009458

Record created by Richard Crangle. Last updated 1 November 2017

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Slide set: From Baghdad to Palestine (lecture: privately made, 96-109 slides, 1920s)