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Temple and wall, with elephant and mahouts in the foreground

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Union pickets foreground. Rebel in hay stack. Munson Hill Fort

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Jefferson Barracks. St. Louis, Mo. Two long brick buildings, one with shutters at windows, garden and fence in foreground.

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Oval landscape near Rome, woman with basket on her head in the left foreground

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No. 3. View on Apache Lake, Sierra Blanca Range, Arizona : two Apache scouts in the foreground.

Donnevaux : Ambulance Company dressing station ; wrecked building, prison-camp barb-wire fence in foreground ; Heart of villiage [i.e. village] ; Ruined church.

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Elaborate observation post built in the Bois de Chaume ; View taken from the top of an observation post, showing top of dugout in the foreground ; Dugout shown to the left and kitchen to the right, flower bed in the centre.

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Wallkill pressure tunnel. End view of section of concrete lining with invert laid in foreground. Erection forms in progress in background. Contract 47. April 11, 1911.

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Bonticou tunnel. Competed trimming of tunnel shown in foreground. ... Contract 47. June 9, 1911.

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Silver Lake reservoir. View showing Middle Dike roadway, parapets and gate-chambers. South basin in foreground. Contract 89 and 144. October 2, 1917.

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Ashokan reservoir. View showing construction of Dividing weir with gate-house in foreground.l Note four 5-foot by 15-foot sluice-gates in place. Contract 3. July 8, 1913.

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Sarles tunnel. Completed trimming of tunnel shown in foreground. .. Contract 55. July 3, 1913.

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Bridges. Kensico reservoir with Cranberry Brook bridge in foreground. ... Contract 9. October 26, 1916.

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Yonkers pressure tunnel. Finished lining in foreground. Placing concrete in side-walls and arch in background. ... Contract 54. May 1, 1912.

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Kensico reservoir. View showing expansion-joints of Kensico dam spaced abour 79 feet apart. Note cut-off trench in right foreground with drainage gallery above. Contract 9. September 9, 1914.

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Kensico reservoir. View of dam showing expansion-joint in foreground and down-stream face stepped to receive granite facing. Contract 9. October 29, 1914.

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Aerators. General view from Middle dike of Ashokan reservoir shoeing the Lower gate-chamber in foreground and aerator in full operation beyond. ... Contract 10. June 20, 1917.

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Eastview tunnel. View showing forms in place with completed arch and side-wall in foreground. ... Contract 52. april 25, 1912.

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From Kapirkate overlooking the Khargati Ridge. The battle ground of 11th May 1919. Bagh Springs + village in the distance and remains of old Bhuddist Stapa [?] on extreme left. Ghurkha sentry in foreground.

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Pontoon bridge across the James [Men sitting and standing in foreground, ships at anchor in river].

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Aerial picture of railhead at Conflans, notice how plain the trenches and trucks in the foreground show up by not being camouflaged.

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Remains of village. Camouflaged trench in foreground; camouflaged road.

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View of the city of Verdun from fort, ammunition trench in foreground. View of city from the top of the walls, group of French soldiers to the left.

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Part of Argonne Forest and trenches in foreground; View of Argonne Forest shell holes in background; Ville-Sur-Goursances in the distance.

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Chateau Thierry, showing temporary bridge built by Americans. Chateau Thierry from the Chateau, town hall in foreground. German machine gun was operating from tower in town hall, commanding approach to the city.

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Typical houses. Graveyard in foreground. Rowlesburg, Preston County, West Virginia

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Houses with partial view of billboard advertising Coca-Cola in foreground. West Virginia?

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Pine Street: U. S. Treasury in foreground, near Nassau Street, Manhattan.

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Rockefeller Center: Collegiate Church of St. Nicholas in foreground, Fifth Avenue and 48th Street, Manhattan.

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Houses with partial view of billboard advertising Coca-Cola in foreground. West Virginia?

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Mounted soldier, groom in foreground holding the bridle

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The Zion Gate, or Gate of the Prophet David, exterior view. In the foreground, outside the gate, is a group of Bethlehemites.

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Hezekiah's Pool, from the south side. The swallows flying towards the turbid water, the man dipping his jar into it from a balcony, and the smokers in the foreground are all characteristic of the spot at the end of the summer, when good water is scarce

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The Houses of the Rich and Poor Man, Dives and Lazarus. This is the most picturesque group of buildings in the Via Dolorosa. In the foreground are a Bedouin mounted on a camel laden with forage, and an Ashkenazi Jew conversing with a water-seller

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A grocer's shop, Jerusalem. Two peasant women seated in the foreground, and a man of Silwan (Siloam) carrying a patched goat's skin filled with water from Job's Well

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The British hospital ships--the 'Jersey' in the foreground..., The old monument, and The new monument in Washington Park, Brooklyn.

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Entrance to the Hospice of St. John and Minaret of Omar. A muezzin in the balcony chanting the call to prayer. Peasants loading a camel in the foreground, and a townswoman wearing a white izzar and dark veil in the distance

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Wreck of a lumber schooner. Remains of old wreck in foreground, San Francisco, Cal.

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Charles-Émile Jacque - Landscape : water in foreground, bare trees beyond.

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The façade of the Mosque el Aksa, Jerusalem, an old olive-tree in the foreground

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Mount Scopus from St. Stephen's gate, Mohammedan tombs in the foreground

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City Hall, Photographer in foreground. Tall brick chimneys left standing.

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City Hall, Photographer in foreground. Tall brick chimneys left standing.

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City Hall from McAllister St., looking northeast. Souvenir hunters in foreground.

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City Hall, Photographer in foreground. Tall brick chimneys left standing.

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City Hall from McAllister St., looking northeast. Souvenir hunters in foreground.

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City Hall from McAllister St., looking northeast. Souvenir hunters in foreground.

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City Hall, Photographer in foreground. Sterescope Cards NYPL Collection.

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The wreck of San Francisco Jewish Synagogue in foreground from Sutter and Powell Sts.

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The wreck of San Francisco Jewish Synagogue in foreground from Sutter and Powell Sts.

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The Jewish cemetery in the Valley of Jehoshaphat showing the tombs of Zachariah, St. James, and Jehoshaphat. Bridge over the rocky bed of the Kedron in the distance, and an Ashkenazi Jew in the foreground

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Exterior of the Golden Gate, Moslem tombs in the foreground

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Landscape : trees on both sides, water in the foreground.

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[View of the Valley, with a hotel in the foreground.]

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Grotto of Jeremiah. In the foreground is a goatherd playing on a double-reed pipe

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Field in foreground, houses and trees in background

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Mt. Watkins, from So. Dome, Mt. Raymond in distance, perpetual snow in foreground.

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Mt. Watkins, from So. Dome, Mt. Raymond in distance, perpetual snow in foreground.

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Beit 'ur-et-Tahta, on the site of lower Beth-Horon, a Bedouin tent in the foreground. A woman preparing food, to be eaten at sunset

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The mosque of Jenîn. Surrounded by gardens; an aqueduct and fountain in the foreground

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Mount Gilboa from Sûlem (Shunem). The northern extremity of the range of Jebel Fukû'a (Gilboa) is shown; the highest point is crowned by the sanctuary of Neby Mezâr. In the foreground a woman is spinning cotton

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The hills of Samaria from Sûlem, the ancient Shunem. Zerîn (Jezreel) appears upon the plain below, and in the foreground there is a characteristic example of the Cactus Opuntia (prickly pear) in blossom

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The Fountain of the Virgin, Nazareth, on the eastern side of the town. A Bedouin sheikh with his attendant in the foreground carrying long tufted spears. Women filling water-jars and cleansing their garments by soaking and beating them with strong bats made of wood.

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The Well at Kefr Kenna. The sculptured sarcophagus in the foreground is used as a trough for cattle

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Castle of Safed, on the northern crest of the hill, with the Moslem quarter in the foreground

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Sarcophagi among the ruins of Kedesh Naphtali. The one in the foreground is a good example of a sarcophagus with two receptacles.

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The Sea of Galilee from Et Tâbighah, the supposed site of Bethsaida. The dilapidated mill in the foreground is one of several which were built here by the celebrated Sheikh Dhaher el 'Amr, to utilise the copious streams for which this place is famous

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Site of Kedesh Naphtali. Marked by remains of buildings of Jewish and Roman origin, and by a small village called Kedes. The spring used by the villagers is shown in the foreground. Mount Hermon is seen in the distance.

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The Jordan at Bâniâs (Cæsarea Philippi). Bâniâs is merely the Arabic pronunciation of the ancient Panias of the Greeks and Romans. In the foreground is a peasant carrying a plough.

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Sculptured niches dedicated to Pan, at Cæsarea Philippi, in the face of the cliff, south of the cavern from which the Jordan springs. A peasant with his double-reed Pandean pipes and his flock of long-eared sheep appropriately occupies the foreground.

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Gold and Silver Smiths' Bazaar, Damascus. A large nearly square court; the blackened roof is supported by arches and massive piers. It is so noisy that sales are often effected by means of signs. The man in the foreground holds up three fingers to show that he will sell a certain article for three pieces of money, the buyer (a veiled woman) offers two.

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Bridge in the Shoemakers' Bazaar, Damascus. A camel and a little group of people can be seen through the grated window, passing over the bridge. In the foreground there is a pleasantly situated café.

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Convent of the Mullawîyeh, or dancing dervishes, Tripoli, with a distant view of the snow crowned summits of Lebanon. In the foreground flows the Kadîsha (the sacred river), called also Nahr Abû Ali. On the pathway may be seen a water-wheel and two millst

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Ansonia from Birm.? (Mrs. Sanford's fence in foreground.)

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Looking towards Tyre from Nâkûrah. An old olive-tree in the foreground and a Muslim cemetary on the hillside.

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The Bay of 'Akka from the slopes of Carmel. With the ruined castle of Haifa in the foreground and a glimpse of the town of Haifa at the foot of the castle-hill ; in the distance the city of 'Akka is clearly shown.

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El Mahrakah, the place of Elijah's sacrifice. At the south-eastern point of the range of Carmel. In the foreground is the green knoll called Tell el Kassîs (the Hill of the Priests), close to which the Kishon flows.

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[Interior of a large hall showing booths set up for a fair. (Dining tables in foreground).]

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View of the rock-encircled harbour at Jaffa, from the roof of the house of Simon the Tanner. The building in the foreground, with its domes and perforated parapets, is a characteristic example of native domestic architecture in towns and cities of Southern Palestine.

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Scene in the bazaar at Jaffa. A public café, in a deep arched recess, with a group of smokers. An attendant pounding coffee is steadying a wooden mortar with his naked feet. In the foreground there are fruit-stalls and a Bedouin with his tufted lance; a water-carrier and a peasant boy leading a camel are passing by.

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Wâdy et Tuffâh, commonly called the vale of Eschol. The peasants grouped in the foreground are under the southern branches of Abraham's oak. In the distance the minaret of the great mosque of Sheikh 'Ali Bakka, Hebron, may be distinguished.

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The castle of Beir Jibrîn, by starlight. Arab musicians in the foreground. The one stringed instrument is the 'rabâb esh shâ'ir' or poet's viol; it is used as an accompaniment to chanted poetry. The double-reed pipe is the 'arghûl;' its longer reed serves as a drone or continuous bass.

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The ruined fortress of Latrôn, from 'Amwâs, the Emmaus of the Maccabees, afterwards called Nicopolis. In the foreground are the remains of the ancient church of Emmaus. There is a direct road, running southwards, from Latrôn to Zorah, over hills dotted with ruined sites.

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The Valley of Beit Jibrîn. With a distant view of the sea and sandy coast hills. On the hillside on the left the entrance to one of the great caverns with which this district abounds is shown. In the foreground a shepherd is sleeping; near to him are his dog and gun and double-reed pipe.

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Valley of Berachah. Jehosaphat's 'valley of blessing.' A wide open vale between Tekoa and the road from Hebron to Bethlehem. In the foreground there is a lime-kiln, and on the distant hill a ruined site, two thousand eight hundred and fifeen feet above the sea, called Khurbet Bereikuh.

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Eshdûd, the ancient Ashdod. Called by the Greeks Azotus. The modern village stands on the slope of a hill, one hundred feet above the sea, and three miles from the shore. The green knoll in the foreground is crowned by the wely of Sheikh Ibrahim el Matbûk.

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Bîr es Seba': the site of Beersheba. The ancient wells can still be traced, and two of them are serviceable ; but the city has ceased to exist. In the distance may be seen an encampment of the Tiyâheh Arabs. In the foreground a woman is asking alms...

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A suburban cafe. the two men on the bench in the foreground are playing a game called mankalah; small pebbles are placed, according to certain rules, in hemispherical holes in a board. This game exercises the powers of calculation; and it is often played at cafes. The loser is expected to pay not only for the coffee drunk by himself and his antagonist, but by the spectators of the game.

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The Nile, from Luxor. The two women in the foreground wear the ordinary black burko', or veil, joined to the head-dress by a piece of cane placed between the eyes.

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One of the 'Tombs of the Memlûks.' On Mount Mukattam. In the foreground is the musattah, or camel-litter, ordinarily used by pilgrims.

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The plain of Thebes from near Karnak. In the foreground is seen a modern saint's tomb in the middle-distance, the lateen sails of the Nile boats, the twin Colossi, and the Ramesêum stand out above the river, and the view is closed by the finest mountain in Egypt, whose steep ships are honeycombed with tombs, and whose towering mass guards and conceals the gloomy "Valley of the Kings" behind.

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Beidhat umm Tâkhah, a neighbor of Mount Serbál. In the foreground is the usual scene of preparation for a night's bivouac.

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