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Palestine Portrayed – Pictures, Descriptions and Explanations

Today’s free book is a collection of photographs of Palestine with descriptions and explanations which was published by the Palestine and Bible Lands Exhibition. My thanks to Book Aid for making a copy of this public domain title available for digitisation.

Samuel William Gentle-Cackett [1871-1943], Palestine Portrayed. Camera Pictures Reproduced with Descriptions and Explanations. London: Palestine and Bible Lands Exhibition, n.d. Hbk. pp.65. [Click here to visit the download page for this title]

Table of Contents

  • Jaffa
  • Haifa and Mount Carmel
  • Nazareth
  • The Village Well
  • Cana
  • Sea of Galilee
  • Tiberias
  • Capernaum
  • Damascus
  • Samaria
  • Shechem
  • Jacob’s Well
  • Joseph’s Tomb
  • Jerusalem
  • Jerusalem—The Gates
  • Jerusalem—Mount of Olives
  • Jerusalem—Temple Area
  • Jerusalem—The Church of the Holy Sepulchre
  • Jerusalem—Skull Hill
  • Jerusalem—The Garden Tomb
  • Jerusalem—Hezekiah’s Tomb
  • Bethlehem
  • Hebron
  • Cave of Machpelah
  • Bethany
  • Jordan

Image: Bethany, p.61.

Rob Bradshaw

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