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Portrait of businessman Casper Holstein, used in Opportunity magazine after he donated $1,000 for the Holstein Prizes in the third annual writers' contest sponsored by the magazine, 1926.
[Jefferson Market] The famous public clock affectionately known as "Old Jeff." August 31, the day the clock was started after the over work of restoration and electrification for which the Committee for the Clock in the Courthouse contracted to pay $3400.  On balcony are Committee members and news writers, also: James vanDerpool, Director of New York City Commission Landmarks Preservation; Alan Burnham, American Architectural Archives; Margot Gayle, Chairman of the Clock Committee; Giorgio Cavaglieri, architect converting the building to a public library and, others.

[Jefferson Market] The famous public clock affectionately known as "Ol...

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Site of Sarepta. As early as the thirteenth century, this city was in ruins, and now only fragments of its foundations exist, chiefly on a headland called 'Ain el Kantarah and also along the shore south of it extending a mile or more. Early Greek and Roman writers speak highly in praise of the [site] of Sarepta

Site of Sarepta. As early as the thirteenth century, this city was in ...

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Athlît, from the south.  Called Castellum Peregrinorum by medieval writers. It was one of the most important landing-places for pigrims during the thirteenth century. It stands on a rocky promontory  which projects a quarter of a mile westward into the sea

Athlît, from the south. Called Castellum Peregrinorum by medieval wri...

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The village of Sh'afât, on the supposed site of Nob, the city of the priests.  The conical hill in the background is the artificial mound called Taliel-el-Fûl. By some writers Nob has been identified with El Isawîyeh, a village in the same district.

The village of Sh'afât, on the supposed site of Nob, the city of the p...

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The Dead Sea, looking north-east from Engedi.  Anciently called the Salt Sea and the Sea of the Plain.  The name Dead Sea, now so familiar, does not occur in the Bible ; it was adopted by Greek and Roman writers in the second century of our era.  The Arabs call this sea Bahr Lût (Sea of Lot.)

The Dead Sea, looking north-east from Engedi. Anciently called the Sa...

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Words to the Instrument Writers

Words to the Instrument Writers

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Words to the Instrument Writers

Words to the Instrument Writers

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